North Carolina Newspapers

Sit New Chairmen Will t ; Serve In Next Congress Six new committee chairmen will take over Senate and House committee in the 82nd ConptM and two who served briefly as chairmen in the 81st Congress will continue to hold their posts in the 82nd, according to a com pilation by Co trps*ional Quar terly. As usual the £?uth dominates committee chairmanships in the 82nd Congress, and the Best has none in the SenaW, otHy three in the House. There will not be much change in the average age of congres sional chairman as a whole. How ever, the new committee chair men are, on the average, eight BEST HOLIDAY WISHES AMERICAN BUNK AND TRUST COMPANY COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE MONROE, N. C. HOLIDAY GREETINGS PHIL CORD COMPANY, INC. Manufacturers of PERFECTLY CONSTRUCTED HOSIERY MONROE, N. C. HOLIDAY GREETINGS RCA Sales — TELEVISION — Service Phone 58 Serving Union County for 38 Years HOLLOWAY MUSIC STORE MONROE, N. C. BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR HENDERSON ROLLER MILL COMPANY Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE FLOUR. CORN MEAL, GRITS, BIG H MILL FEED POULTRY AND DAIRY FEED Phone 180 and 22 - MONROE, N. C. /■ ~ • SEASON’S GREETINGS ★ GRIFFIN IMPLEMENT & MILLING COMPANY GIMCO FEEDS ★ MONROE, N. C. I YOUR FOOD BILL KEEPS GOING UP; WHERE IS END? Here's what has been happen ing to yoor food budget since the Korean war started1 last Jane: On October 30 eggs averaged 76 cents a dozen. That's 42 per cent more than they cost in June. Milk was costing nearly 23 cents a quart on October 30 a 14 per cent increase over the pre Korean war price. And hamburger was retailing for 61 cents a pound on October 30. That's an increase of dosa to 8 per cent. The figures are official ones from the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics. years younger than their pred ecessors. It takes 12 to 15 years’ seni ority to become head of a com mittee. It. takes • longer to be icome head of an rmportant com mittee than of a minor group be cause the turnover is faster on the minor committees. The new chairmen will be chosen by committee members at the beginning of the 82nd Con gress. They are nearly always chosen on the basis of seniority. Changes have already been made in the House Education and La bor Committee and the House Merchant .Narine and Fisheries Committee" because the vacancy in the chairmanship occurred during 1950. Expected changes in chairmanships are: Senate Agriculture: Allen J. Ellender (D, La). 59, member of the Senate and of the Com mittee since 1937, replacing El mer Thomas (D, Okla.). 73, de feated for renomination. Ellen der favored repeal of the tax on oleomargarine, lifting price sup ports or basic crops Senate Armed Services: Kicn aid B. Russell (D, Ga.), 53, member of the Senate since 1933, replacing Millard E. Tydings (D, Md.), 61 defeated for relection. Russell was a member of the old Naval Affairs Committee from 1933 until 1946, when it was merged with the Armed Services Committee. He was chairman for 10 years of the old Immigra tion and Naturalisation Commit tee, which, was later merged with the Judiciary Committee. Rus sell long has been an advocate of universal military training and a strong military establishment, He favored unification of the armed services and the appoint ment of Gen. George C. Marshall to succeed Louis Johnson as Sec retary of Defense. Senate Labor and Public Wel fare: James E. Murray (D, Mont.). 74, chairman of the old Education, and Labor Committee in the 79th Congress and mem ber of that Committee since 1935, replacing Elbert D. Thomas (D, Utah), 67, who was defeated or re-election. Murray has been in the Senate since 1934, has fa vored repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, federal aid to education and national health insurance. Like Thomas, he is regarded as an administration stalwart. House Education and Labor: Graham A. Barden (D. N. C.), 54, member of the House since 1935 and of the Committee since that date, replacing John Lesinski (D, Mich.). 65, deceased, Barden took over the chairmanship of the Committee after Lesinski died last May. Other House changes: Admin istration: Thomas B. Stanley (D, Va.), 60. replacing Mary T. Nor ton <D, N. J.), 75, who is retir ing; Merchant Marine and Fish eries: Edward J. Hart (D. N. J.) 57, replacing Schuyler Otis Bland (D, Va.), 77, who died in Feb ruary; Public Lands: John R. Murdock (D, Aris). 65 replacing J. Hardin Peterson (D, Fla.), 56, who is retiring; Public Works; Charles A. Muckley (D, N. Y.), 60, replacing William M. Whit tington (D, Miss.), 72, who is retiring. There were only two changes in the ranking minority members of committee*. Channcey W. Reed (R. 111.), succeeds Earl C. Mithener (R. Mich.) as ranking minority member on the House Judiciary Committee and Har old H. Velde (R. 111.) succeeds Richard M. Nixon (R. Calif.), elected to the Senate, as ranking minority member of the House Un-American Activities Commit tee. Many committees are losing several members including the House Un American Activities Committee, which has lost half of its Republicans, and the House Appropriations, Banking and Currency Expenditures, Foreign Affairs and Public Lands Com mittees. The other day a Russian, said by the commie press to be at poet and song writer, gave forth with a brand new thing which he called a Hymn of Peace. But j it wasn’t about ° peace, according] to our understanding of that1 word. It was about death and slaughter and hate. It called upon the Russians to be happy to die for communism; that is what he.meant by peace. All he had for the other peoples of the world was hatred; all he wanted for them was death and suffer ing. Peace, to this Russian hymn composer, means the peace of death for all hut communists. It is well to understand some of these things about the com mies. It helps us figure out why they behave as they do. It saves us from being fooled by them, for they use many of the same words we use, but they mean different things. Because we do not accept com munism, we are to be hated. Be cause we want to operate as a constitutional democracy, we are the enemies of the commies. Take Unions, for instance The Russian commie, or his counter part in this country, has no use for our Unions. American Un ions get wages, hours and work ing conditions for working peo ple. That is not so in Russia, or in any other country behind the red curtain. In commie lands, Unions exist to carry out the production orders of the top brass, who are actual dictators. The commie Union is an agency of t the government. It does not negotiate with the bosses; it gets its orders and it performs as the boss decrees. Otherwise, there is the firing squad or the slave camp. * Russian Unions do not elect their own officers; they are picked by the government, which also makes the wage scales. How would you like that? Unions do not protect their members in Russia, they regiment them and make them work harder and longer hours. Americans of intelligence do not want any part of commun ism, because we like to run our own business, elect oQr govern ment officials, choose our Union officers and struggle for better living conditions. We like it that way. We do not want to be ordered around day and night by top brass, especially brass hats which we had no voice in elect ing. Our idea of Peace is something the commie cannot understand, for we do not even want trouble with him, if he will behave. Long ago, leaders of the Teamsters discovered the real meaning of communism and learned that Americans who love their rights and their liberties cannot accept commies in mem bership without endangering their Unions. The commie serves one master; the big shot in Mos cow. He is not and he cannot be a loyal American. “That’s why there is no place now and there never can be a place for communists in Ameri can Labor. We, of the Teamsters, have barred them for 40 years or more and we have proved the wisdom of those leaders of ours in years gone by who established that. basic policy. — Washington Teamster. IS THIS SOCIALISM? f DIVIDENDS SOAR Thu week’t note on “social ism:" The Commerce Department re ported on November 15 that cash dividend payments last Septem ber were 60 per cent greater than in the same month in 1949. The figures are $1,152,000,000 for September, 1900, and only $721 million for September, 1949. The department estimates that total dividends paid by corpora- ■ tions this year will amount to 97J billion—about $1.1 billing more than the 1949 llgure of $«.4 billion. Figures such m there on divi dend* show how ridiculous this “socialism” talk really is. BE PATIENT A pink elephant, a green rat and a polka-dotted snaked walkedl into a cocktail bar. “You’re a little early boys,” said the bartender. “He ain't here yet.” ■ SEASON’S GREETINGS TO ALL MY FRIENDS H. 1. FULLER, DISTRIBUTOR ♦ GULF OIL PRODUCTS GULF TIRES, BATTERIES, ACCESSORIES • •' • j Phone 449 East Windsor Street MONROE, N. C. MERRY CHRISTMAS—HAPPY NEW YEAR - YOUNG MANUFACTURING COMPANY NORWOOD, N. C. your signature marks your bills PAID A checking account at the Commercial Notional Bank makes It easy to pay your bills. _Just write a check and moil it. - You will receive your cancelled check, a permanent record of payment, with your bank statement at the end of the month. Come in and open your Commercial National checking account today. Then pay your bills the easy, convenient way—by check. NORTH CAROLINA'S OLDEST BANK MERCUL NATIONAL KM DRJVE-1N BRANCH - US WEST MOREHEAD STREET CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA of&Jt JAote % &CU* m.