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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C
PAUL MALLON
New Brand of Socialism
U NION Big Man John Lewis’ new coal economy, calling for
another bigger round of prices and wage increases, seems
to have some economic relation to a new brand of socialism ad
vocated by the latest AFL economic survey. The survey howls
in top headline: "High Prices Threaten Workers’ Jobs and Living Stand
ards.” Then at the end it furnishes what it calls “The Way Out.”
The way out, says the AFL, is "Consumer Cooperation,” and it adds:
"Consumer cooperation means cooperative ownership of a business. Every
member is a part-owner ... we must start at once to organize as con
sumers ... we cannot afford to wait . .
Now let’s see. Let’s understand this. Consumer cooperation is co
operative ownership of a business, eh? That, of course, is socialism.
Moreover, it is a different, advanced type of socialism than that which
the British unions have imposed on Britain. The British government
bought the business there with government bonds, and as is the normal
case when the government owns anything, no one owns it.
This new AFL socialism is not state socialism bnt union ownership.
The unions start factories for shoes, clothing or even automobiles, maybe.
Immediately this breaks its own union monopoly of the work in the pri
vately owned shoe, clothing or automobile factory. In work and price
then, AFL would compete with its own members, for the purpose of un
derselling them and making their business unprofitable. If AFL was
successful, their members would lose the private ownership jobs they
have now.
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H. L PHILLIPS
That Summer Vacation Trip
BLANKET OF STEEL ... In this aerial photo of Manhattan Island, made from an altitude of 7,500 feet,
can be seen the greatest concentration of steel to be found anywhere in the world. Some 27 million tons
of it went into the building of skyscrapers, bridges, subways, docks and other facilities that go to make
up a great city. Steelways magazine points out that to duplicate that amount of steel would require enough
iron ore to cover Manhattan’s 22 square miles with a nine-inch blanket.
Put a squirrel tail on the radiator
cap, stick a pennant in your hat,
and ho for the open road, the closed
bridge and the detour that unravels
your spine and puts gravel in your
disposition!
.
Through the great open spaces
with tire jack, can opener, aspirin
tablets and a will of iron.
*
We have annihilated distance and
run the clippers over the wings of
time. And what have we? More
hamburgers, popcorn ' stands, hot
fudge parlors and popsicle spots
per capita! . . . And a civilization
whose slogan is "Don’t forget to
change the oil and look at the bat
tery!"
• * •
Ben Pease says that if the ancient
prophets could get a peek at present
WALTER SHEAD
day civilization they would start sing
ing "How are things in Sodom-Gomor-
rahr
• i • .
Congress is to make an inquiry
into the high cost of living. This
should raise it considerably.
• • •
INCREDIBLE *
He gasped, he reeled
And then fell fiat . . .
Gromyko had said
“I agree with that”!!!
* • •
“Armies Close Trap.”—Headline.
If only some of our leaders
would. . . .
• • •
"Dewey is regarded in some
quarters as the White Knight.”—
News item. Just at present, a sort
of silent night, as it were.
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A Warning—Boom and Bust
L EON HENDERSON, former price administrator, has told the Repub
lican steering committee in the senate that the present governmental
policy is heading toward a wild boom and then a bust.
He declared the price structure is shot through with distortion and
unbalances and that prices, just as in 1920, have been allowed to get out
of hand, that profits of business and industry are swollen and that wages
have not kept pace with the rise in prices.
Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, chairman of the GOP committee,
took the opposite view. He said there is no evidence today that
prices are out of line with wages and he declared that factory
workers today can buy 20 per cent more with their pay than they
could eight years ago. Chances are that there isn’t a housewife
in the country who will agree with Senator Taft on that statement.
Senator Taft even asserted that he believed higher rents would help
purchasing power because the landlords would make some repairs.
On one thing Taft and Henderson agree—namely, that luxury taxes
should be investigated.
WALTER WINCHELL
Cast of Characters in the Big Town
The producer who lunches daily
with his two ex-wives. . . . China
town’s citizens idling away a Sun
day afternoon sipping rice wine and
playing fan-tan. . . . Comely gypsy
maidens near Tompkins Square
garbed in colorful native costumes.
. . . The hot sweet potato vendors
on Mulberry Square. . . . Union
Square’s open-air forums where
anyone can join the verbal free-for-
mlL
Shady lawyers hanging
around courts, hoping to pick
up homicide cases. They’re
called "thousand dollar men.”
A thouz is the established fee
for an attorney allotted by the
court to defend an accused
murderer.
DREW PEARSON
A community of families who live
on barges anchored in East river.
Some rent extra cabins to boarders.
. . . The depressing migration of
derelicts to Bowery fleabags every
evening. They seldom speak to each
other.
Miserable humans in night court—
the worst possible advert for the hu
man race. . . . Prisoners delivered to
police headquarters via a back door
and whisked into hidden elevators....
Cocky prisoners in the police lineup
who crack iokes in hope of creating "a
favorable atmosphere.”
Gents who carry gum - tipped
poles to pluck coins dropped in cel
lars. The city’s version of a beach
comber. . . . Trafficops refereeing
the midtown traffic tussle.
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SHOOTING STARS FOR AIR NATIONAL GUARD . . . Army air forces Lockheed P-80B jet-propelled
"Shooting Star” fighter planes like these will be furnished to the air national guard next spring for the
training of reserve combat pilots. The ANG will receive 86 of these tactical jet fighter planes, shown here
on the runway of Lockheed’s flight test base at Van Nuys, Calif. The P-80B has greatest firepower of any
jet airplane in the world—six machine guns in the nose, firing 1,200 rounds each per minute.
Marshall Exposes Russia’s Game
S ECRETARY of State Marshall gloomily disclosed to the house foreign
affairs committee that a Soviet fifth column, composed mostly of Ger
mans, is working “night and day” to create chaos in Germany. At an off-
the-record meeting, Marshall, in effect, declared:
"The Russian game is to keep Germany in chaos, realizing
that desperate, broken, hungry people are easy prey for Commu
nism and will turn to Russia for aid.”
He emphasized that European recovery is impossible without stepped-
up German production, and assured the congressmen that this was the
unanimous opinion of the “best minds available." Germany was the hub
of European economy before the war, Marshall pointed out, and could not
be blanked out suddenly without upsetting the whole European structure.
"If Germany becomes a cancer,” he warned, "the thing will
spread.” *
The secretary of state implied that Germany can be made self-suf
ficient without again threatening world peace, but indicated that the prob
lem was to convince France of this. He declared frankly that economic
recovery in Europe hinged upon the French attitude toward Germany,
inasmuch as France fears any program that might develop Germany’s
war potential. This worry is aggravated by Communist propaganda,
he said.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Russia Thwarts United-Nations
A MISTAKE was made in the
San Francisco conference
when the United Nations was or
ganized. Russia should not have
been appeased by giving her a veto
power. She should have been per
mitted to walk out then, and not
Jater be in a position to block
action. United Nations, to be effec
tive, must be something more than
a debating society. Its constitution
provides a rather cumbersome
method of correcting that mistake.
The time to make such a change is
NOW. Russia probably will quit if it
is made, but it is better that she
quit now than to wait until Com
munism dominates all the world.
HAP ARNOLD—CIVILIAN FARMER ... What becomes of a general
when the war is over? It all depends on who he is. Henry H. Arnold,
commanding general of the U. S. army air forces daring World War
II, had long nourished the desire to get back to the good earth. When
his job was done he retired to his 50-acre, 16-cow ranch near Sonoma,
Calif., where he now concerns himself more with his civilian jeep
than with army airplanes. Astride antiquated disk harrow is hired
man Warren Betz.
FRIENDLY FOREIGN RELATIONS • • • Premier Alcide de Gasperi
of Italy gives with a terrific grin as he bids fareweU to U. S. state
department’s Will Clayton, who beams right back at him. Friendly
scene took place as Clayton took leave of the ItaUan premier after a
conference in Rome concerning details of the Marshall plan for re
habilitation of Enrope. Premier de Gasperi was one of a number at
European statesmen whom Clayton visited.
SCOUT WITH BRAIDS . . . Boy
Scout Earl Old Person, Blackfoot
Indian from Montana, waits to
board ship on which he and other
scouts from all parts of the Unit
ed States will sail to attend boy
scouts world jamboree at Mois-
son, France.
VATICAN CHORISTER . . . Frank
Pinza, nephew of Metropolitan
opera star Ezio Pinza, is shown
following his arrival in New York
with the Roman singers of sacred
music, popularly known an the
Vatican choir.
Increase Noted
In Birth Rate
Average Life Expectancy
Of Babies Soars During
Past Century.
MINNEAPOLIS.—Flying at super
sonic speeds, the stork now is
delivering babies to the United
States at the record rate of seven
every minute, more than 10,000
each 24 hours. At the current birth
rate, more than three and three-
quarter million American babies
will be born in 1947, exceeding the
previous record total of 1946 by
more than half a million, and al
most equalling the entire population
of the United States at the time of
the census of 1790.
If these babies had been bom a
century ago, in 1847, a study by
Northwestern National Life Insur
ance company points out, one out of
six, more than 600,000, would die
before reaching their first birthday
anniversary. Because of the
marked improvement in infant care
in the past century, only one out of
each 21 of the babies bom this year,
or less than 200,000 out of three and
three-quarter millions, will fail to
reach their first birthday anniver
sary.
Had these children been born in
1847, the study goes on, nearly one-
third, or more than 1,100,000, would
never see their tenth birthday anni
versary. But of those bom in 1947
only one out of 16—fewer than 240,-
000—will die before the age of 10.
Many to See Age 67.
Average life expectancy of babies
born in 1847 was approximately 39
years, which meant survival until
only 1886—not long enough to see
the turn of the new century. But the
babies being bom this year have a
present average life expectancy of
67 years, enough to let them see the
year 2014 A.D.
If born in 1847, and fortunate
enough to survive their first haz
ardous year, infants faced tubercu
losis as the major killer of that
epoch, followed in order of mor
tality by pneumonia, diarrheal dis
eases, heart disease, cerebral hem
orrhage, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
malaria, Bright’s disease and can
cer. Nationwide mortality rate sta
tistics were not kept at that time,
but annual death rates in principal
cities ranged from 30 to more than
40 per thousand of population, due
in part to scourges of yellow fever,
cholera and smallpox.
Menaces Disappear.
Babies bom in 1947 enter an en
vironment from which these last
three menaces have almost disap
peared, the study points out. Today,
tuberculosis is seventh from the top
in mortality rates; the mortality
tables now are headed by heart dis
ease and cancer, due mainly to the
fact that so many more people live
to the older age brackets subject
to these ailments.
Today’s youngsters must be more
alert to avoid accidents, in order to
survive; accidents, not including
those involving motor vehicles, are
sixth as a cause of deaths, and
motor vehicle accidents alone rate
ninth as a cause of fatalities.
Total annual mortality rates for
the entire population have fallen in
the past century to only 10 per thou
sand. With continuing scientific
progress in disease prevention,
sanitation, dietetics and geriatrics,
the record-breaking 1947 crop of ba
bies actually may achieve even
longer and healthier lives than
present-day data indicate, the study
suggests.
Crippled Pet of Railroad
Men Cured; Walks Again
COVINGTON, TENN. — Fifteen-
year-old Minnie Rose Webb, a little
crippled girl who waved at railroad
men as they passed her river bot
toms home and became their "pet,”
has put aside the wheelchair that
trainmen gave her. She’s walking
again.
Minnie Rose returned from the
Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Chil
dren at St. Louis and now is walk
ing with crutches.
At a lonely crossing near her
cabin one night in March, 1946, Min
nie Rose was picked up by the Illi
nois Central’s Chickasaw Limited
and the railmen took their "pet” to
the hospital.
Air Forces Highest Honor
Is Awarded to 38 Fliers
WASHINGTON.—Army air forces
reported that the Medal of Honor,
highest United States award for
bravery in battle, has been granted
to 38 of its fliers fof action in World
War H.
The medal was awarded posthu
mously in 18 cases. Six others were
missing in action when the medal
was ordered for them and since
have been declared officially dead.
The men range from sergeants to
generals, fighter pilots, bomber
crews and mission commanders.
American-Born Princess
Lives on Relief Six Years
NEW YORK.—The New York de
partment of welfare revealed that
the American - born widow of
wealthy Prince Ibrahim Hassan,
uncle of King Farouk of Egypt, had
been on relief roles for six years,
drawing $74.93 a month. Relief
workers said that the Princess Has
san, now 73, came to America from
Englsnd in 1934.
Food Quota to Reich
Is Set by Anderson
Plans to Ship 300,000 Tons a
Month to Western Zone.
BERLIN. — Secretary of Agricul
ture Clinton P. Anderson announced
that the United States has promised
to ship the western zones of Ger
many a minimum of 3.6 million tons
of food—300,000 tons a month—in
the next 12 months.
These shipments, Anderson said,
would make it possible for the Ger
mans in the American and British
zones to get the full legal diet of
1,550 calories a day.
Most Germans do not get all the
food they are entitled to because
there is not enough.
Averell W. Harriman, secretary
of commerce, said the most impor
tant problem for Europe was to get
world trade started again.
He indicated that he was ex
tremely doubtful that the British-
American zones could be made
self-supporting by 1950, the date set
by military government.
American farmers, he said, were
gambling on the future by making
tremendous crops to keep the world
from starving.
He warned of a “terrific agricul
tural collapse” in years to come un
less some precautions, such as crop
rotation, are taken to preserve the
soil.
Harriman stressed that the big
gest factor involved in restoring
German economy was the coal
shortage. “Recovery in Germany is
essential to the recovery of all Eu
rope,” he said.
He said that despite the split at
Paris, eastern European nations
would have to continue world trade
and indicated that the United States
hoped to continue t-ade negotiations
with them.
Pushbutton Telegraphy
Loop Now in Operation
PHILADELPHIA. — "Push
button telegraphy” has been
placed in operation between
Philadelphia and New York.
Western Union Telegraph com
pany said the two million dollar
pushbutton system, coupled with
construction of a new radio
beam network, ultimately will
replace telegraph pole lines.
The mechanical marvel, tri
pling the capacity of present
wire facilities, permits switching
clerks to relay messages to any
of 270 destinations by merely
pushing a button.
Western Union officials said
other circuits will be added
later.
Monkeys Are Immunized
Against Polio by Serum
"BALTIMORE.—Three Johns Hop
kins university physicians an
nounced an important achievement
in the fight to conquer infantile
paralysis—the successful immuni
zation of monkeys against polio
myelitis.
The announcement was made by
Drs. Isabel M. Morgan, Howard A.
Howe and David Bodian of the
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health, through the
American Journal of Hygiene.
They reported the immunization
was achieved through intra-muscu-
lar vaccination with active polio
virus.
It marked the first time that med
ical science has been able to obtain
“solid immunity” in the long battle
against the dread disease.
The three doctors said that im
munization of monkeys is a long
step toward discovery of a means
of safeguarding human beings
against infantile paralysis.
Who’s Amusing? Monkeys
Have Their Own Version
CHICAGO. — Monkeys think the
people outside the cages are put
there to amuse them, believes R.
Marlin Perkins, director of Lincoln
park zoo.
When a transparent mirror was
installed in the cage so that audi
ences could see the animals without
revealing their own presence, the
simians acted bored. But when the
monkeys learned to press a button
that turned down the lights in the
cage so they could see out, they
quickly came to life.
“The monkeys get more kick out
of their human visitors than the
people do from the animals,” Per
kins observes.
The mirror, a development of
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company,
was installed so that timid animals
could be shown successfully to the
public.
Sweet Talk Goes an Ocean
Astray; Just Wrong Number
SHANGHAI. — A wrong number
6,000 miles astray on the new trans
pacific radio-telephone stepped up
Editor Woo Kya-tang’s pulse for a
few seconds.
“Hello, hello, darling,” said the
sweet feminine voice from Wash
ington. “How are you, dear?”
When Woo, executive director of
the Shanghai Evening Post and Mer
cury, seemed unresponsive, the
voice continued in a hurt tone:
“This is Dorothy, darling. How
are you?”
Then hesitatingly, “. . . aren’t you
Bill?”
At this crucial point the Shanghai
operator decided that Woo wasn’t
"Bill” and cut them off.
Gems of Thought
There can be no treasure with-
out pain. He will receive wages who
I has worked.—Persian.
j Simplicity is the background
I of good taste.
I Justice is the bread of the
, nation; it is always hungry for
| it.—Chateaubriand.
Make peace with men and
I quarrel with your sins.—From
I the Russian.
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