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SIX WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1949 We're Overcrowded AlreadyY memo was insufficient, 'Set It Down Anywhere, and that they were to bring By MARQUIS CHILDS If HHlmmtjton tflorntiuj Mctos Independent Newspaper FubZlahed Every. Morning Except Sunday By The Ktwi-Jaarnal Comiitnr Wilmington.

Delaware Henry Clans. President hand, the volume in January was below that of December or of January a year ago. But if that is what took' place and the chances are. that the explanation is to be found "right r-rnmissinn reconuneauauuua WASHINGTON" Feb. 18.

Both FIRST repeal the T-H Act and. adopts modified version of the old Wagner SMITHSONOVITCH INSTITUTION heat and light," with considerably more the former, are being gen 3" FLYING MACHINE (RUSSIAN JNVEKTION) Law authorizing closed, snop and without the right to enjoin here Secretary Brannan's sus-r FIRST ENGINE i i- striteK'in the courts. Leaders oi erated as the Senate hearings on new labor legislation In their third This is a forecast Charles Shm, Executive EdlUr A. O. H.

Grler. Martin A. KUrtr, I Morris, Anthony Hlrrins. J- Woedraff Editors. Jena J.

Bradr. Mtsulx Editor Emereen Wilson. City Editor Winifred I. BreadbenU Society Editor Ernest L. Priest.

Librarian. -Telephone 4-5351 organized labor would feel that they were under close public scrutiny" during this period and they would I PI I ls5 7 I of the debate to come on the Senate floor, which promises to be long drawn out and full of rancor. be unlikely to take advantage oi xoe -repeal of Taft-Hartley-controls. things to a halt while the government had its chance. As was to be expected, the ruling was greeted with recriminations.

The whole strategy of the Communist defense seems fairly clear. They are less concerned with clearing the defendants than they are in vilifying the whole structure of American juridical processes. No doubt they see Infinite possibilities for future propaganda' therein. Unfortunately, Judge. Medina's move has gained us only a temporary respite.

picions will not be confirmed. For it is perfectly natural for traders to try to get on a bandwagon headed in either direction. The only way to stop them Is to get rid-of the bandwagon and" there is no way to do that if we want the benefits The prospect is that the final Senator Ives -of New York and Senator Morse of Oregon, who are bill may be really satisfactory to seeking a middle-ground, solution. no one and especially not. to organ j.

Member of the Associated Press Th Associated Press is entitled exelu- tt republication of all local news printed in this newspaper. as well ia (f) news dispatches. Entered as second-class matter March 19, 1913. at the post office at WUminrten. Delaware, under the act of March 5.

1879. ized labor. Granted tnat organized labor was at fault at the outset in trvins to make tne Senate jump of free markets. through the labor hoop like an WUiU constructive suggestion. Unions and employers would be required to give 60 days notice of the termination, cf labor, agreements to the federal -conciliation The law would provide for emergency mediation -boards to act before, the end of the obedient trained seal, this win not De i vin.hv situation.

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unrest. azreement and not after it had Rut sensible and knowledgeable ended and a strike was imminent. Viens Sept Among Monte Carlo's imports from the West this year will be the game of craps. So says Louis Ceresol, who is director of the mm ront.inuft to search for a rea The final outcome can be a dog sonable, solution. Between the emo Thursday, Febrnary 17.

19t fight with everyone disgruntled and- unViormw ovronf rvprharis sl few tional, poles of Senator on tne Republicans who might think, that- one hand and Senators iviurray anq Neely on the other hand is a wide area of agreement. Civil Service, It often happens that a state government and the national government find they have the same problem on a different scale. But it seldom' happens that the. solution to a common Let Actions Speah Monte Carlo Casino. He has also made the interesting observa this was the way to aiscrea vine Democrats.

Or a constructive and. reasonable law can be adopted by Secretary of State Acheson A maioritv of the Senate wOuld tion that "after two wars, craps have become international." The be likely to favor repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act if there could be sub tried yesterday to relieve European fears aroused by Monday's workable law is to put a commission tq work to assemble knowledge anct stituted for it an improved Wagner Art 1 Tinder the "imDrovements." implication here, of course, is Such a coolmz-oli period spontaneous Senate debate on problem is being actively sought at both levels at the same time. may be necessary for Congress if both unions and employers would be the deepest, controversies are to do resolved satisfactorily. (copyrignt required to Bargain in gooa iaiui. Secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes would be prohibited as un That is true, just now, of Delaware and the federal govern 1949, by United Feature syndicate.

Inc.) fair labor practices. that the ubitqultous GI, marine, and sailor have left behind them cultural heritages other than gum chewing and souvenir hunting. In any event, M. Ceresol is going to do it up right. Cur ment.

For both, recommenda tions have been made in the One Man's Opinion By WALTER KIERNAN By International News Service -Reaction to Ike Eisenhower's matter of -improving the efficiency of the executive depart Unions would be required to iue and publish financial statements and by-laws. The conciliation service would be retained as anjndependent agency. The chief obstacles to agreement are the closed shop provision and the issue of whether the federal' courts shall have the power through in-lunrtion to ston strikes that threat ment. The similarity of the aims is striking. Here in Dela rently he is in Las Vegas, Nev.

where dice gallop with legal abandon picking up some of warning of bureaucratic dictatorship has been good. people want nothing from government except low rents, high wages, low prices, protected employment, and ware we have a fine opportunity en the national welfare. On these to compare the painstaking the atmosphere as well as the fine points of the game. He is two points most of the heat is generated. work of the Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Gov making a wire recording, which we presume will be edited, ex From Joseph Kovner, a specialist in labor law, comes what seems to me a reasonable proposal to bridge ernment, now being released, with what seems to be 'needed under our ''own much smaller purgated; and translated into the French idiom for use at the 4 wawww ror the dissension over these two points.

He suggests that a commission of ex system. perts be appointed now by Congress Casino. We can see a few pit tbe projected North Atlantic Security Pact. It Is by no means certain that he succeeded. But lie did make it clear that the need for restoring confidence in American intentions is understood in Washington.

Europeans who are nervous cier the Senate discussion may riot be greatly reassured over the Acheson statement that there are "no real differences" between the State Department and the Congress over the objectives of the proposed treaty. But they should find some comfort in his allusion to previous American pronouncements on this subject. Ahd his expressed hope that the text of the agreement can soon made public is evidence, at that there is no disposition to delay a decision on the issue. Speed is now in order. There Ik danger that European peoples will misunderstand this country's position.

The emphasis senators have placed on the fact that the United States cannot be committed in advance to fight in defense of the Atlantic community, because the Constitution gives Congress the power to Mr. Hoover's reorganization falls, although usage will, after complete security. And it's difficult to imagine any people so personally independent becoming slaves to bureaucracy Aren't we? Incidentally the Army announces it wants only strong, intelligent men in the future and it made a good start by recalling Ike. The draft is off and volunteers must prove they are smart enough to enlist. is a new and novel use for a high IQ.

The Navy isn't saying anything but it just ordered 700,000 pairs of shoes delivered in Brooklyn Seems to indicate either the fleet is in or the soles are out. a time, smooth out the rough plan calls for the merging of 65 independent federal agencies into about one-third that num spots. "Come seven come eleven to study and make recommendations within six months on the main points of The commission would consider the closed shop and other forms of compulsory union membership to determine what regulations, if any, should be included in law to insure the rights of the individual worker. It would also study possible controls to be applied when strikes seem about to endanger the safety or health of the nation. ber.

He would pay adequate will of course slide right into "viens sept, viens onze, without too much trouble. But we are dying to know what he'll. do salaries to executives and es strangulation, and corruption and it uses them according to political need. Here again our government follows the plan of national socialism in Germany. Mr.

Dewey has often thrown salacious winks at. this concern. Now he makes wolf -calls. It was not an original discovery of Roosevelt that the intelligence of the people is a political figure of speech even in a country which arbitrarily, inflicts education on the mollusk, measuring it by a mathematical unit like the erg. But not even Hitler himself was quicker to exploit their Even Dewey, who got his standard portion at the University of Mich tablish a chain of command Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PECLER NEW YORK, Feb.

16. Governor Dewey took the occasion' of the Lincoln Day voodoo to try to read the Republicans out of the party which he twice let down as its nominee for President. Now he would consolidate it with the Democratic Party, in an informal acceptance of the one-party system. We have had this kind of Republicanism in Cook County, 111., New York County, N. and Hudson County, N.

and it has been rotten. As a mere nuisance, on pension from the Democratic machine, from the president down through InezRobb ASSIGNMENT AMERICA MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 16 INS). Gangsters, gamblers, and horse playsrs are not the only high class citizens who take it on the lam down here. This is veritably the cross roads of the Western Hemisphere well as the home away from home of every politician south of the border taking it on the lam from the ever-loving voters 'or the military juntas back home.

Scarcely a day passes that the former president of some South American Republic doesn't arrive here furtively looking over his with, for instance, "eighter from Decatur." each department and bureau. During the six months the experts could go into every phase of these Here in Delaware there are touchy issues and with particular some 50 state agencies and com It's Loving By ANNE CAMPBELL reference to the actual practices and habits of management, and labor. Their recommendations would carry Keeping Homes Intact Through its comprehensive missions. We like the bill, recently offered at Dover, which much weight with Congress. Such a commission would not necessarily consist of experts al program, the Family Society of Wilmington is going a long way toward coping with one of the would finance a study of pos sible consolidation.

As to mak ing the agencies more respon ready tagged as on the side of either igan and a little smitch of seconds at Colombia, now seems too dumb to understand that nobody will buy an when the original is management or labor. In universi most vital needs of the com still to be had. sive and answerable to the Gov shoulder to' see if those people with ties and research institutions an enormous amount of more or less objective study has gone into labor- declare war, must make many Europeans wonder whether the There were many among Dewey's munity, Keeping tne nome in machetes are on" his trail. ernor than they are now, we're trudging followers who long fought, (For Marge) No person is without a child, Though there are many who have none To keep their lonely hearts beguiled With laughing plans and youthful fun. The childless ones will tell you how Their Joyto.

children long endures! They.smile on every child and vow: "It's loving lhem that makes them yours." Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. management relation, Thus Mr. Kov- tact. pact can have any value what -There are now four former presi neri formerly assistant general down a suspicion which he con-3 firmed at last in the Washington counsel to the CIO. was one.

of a dents of Venezuela, seeking surcease its lawyers living on table-scraps and scrounging old butts from the crooks of the bench and the back room, permanently accepting the degraded status of the "minority," the Republican Party is nowhere any better than the corruption which it lives on. It would be just that kind of party on the national scale and Dewey's proposal that it adopt as its permanent program The meeting of the ever. They must be shown, as in this area from political cares group that spent three years in, a study of labor organization financed oration. Confirmation is found also in his vengeful proposal to double society this week brought out not ready to form an opinion. The Delaware study, like the Hoover Commission's, should go into that important aspect of our state executive department.

back home. This ordinarily would constitute a quorum or at least a his budget and raise the income tax evidence of the success the or soon as possible, that it can. qtThey should know this now. After all, our troops are in Ger by Johns Hopkins University That study has hot yet been Congress 'would not wait for the eood bridge hand. ganization is having in that However, Eleazar Lopez Contreras and Isais Medina Anearita.

who field. During the past year 484 ANSWER TO FKEYIOCS FT3ZZXS were the first two to scram in some CROSSWORD PUZZLE 66 per cent under a Rooseveltian pretext which pretends there is no raise. All this has happened since he got his licking in November. What he might have done as President Is a thought too harsh to face. It is true that the nation has cultivated bad habits of class privilege, inflation, and selective law enforcement which, if broken off what unseemly haste, do not speak to the last two presidential arrivals, Romulo Betancourt and Rom- ulo Gallegos.

Contreras and Angarita belong to many. Other American troops are manning air bases in Britain. It is no secret that American military aid will go to the signatories of the pact. American officers are taking a hand in drawing up plans for common defense. All these facts make our purpose plain enuogh.

There is not much doubt that one nolitical faction and Betan Another important bill at Dover now Is the one proposing a state Civil Service Commission; it seems to parallel in many ways the Hoover plan for improving the efficiency and morale of public employes. It sounds very good indeed. Meanwhile the Legislature and all of us can the comparisons a cneap parapnrase oi me jjemo- cratic ism proves that he has given all he ever had, which will not boil down "to much, and is too selfish to -get out give the party a decent chance. As an auxiliary of the Democratic Party the Republican Party never could hope to win. But that is all it could hope to be under the plan which he proposes.

Here is a twice-beaten candidate, who did his best neither time and was licked' the second time by a suddenly, might be fatal. Doctors families were served, comprising 2,028 persons, 1,124 of them children. The need for this service results from. many causes: broken homes, sickness, death, disturbed family relationships, and inability to manage on marginal income. Some of these difficulties can AjBlAl ciKjOwLjp.gE isLg' ft 1 IpeI Ajg- OLJEIOiNaPlgiOlO TiO A TUL AIN EiglNpvTE pie Am nttw'eiiJt A PUT I NDP A Uyjs i Iadr qiaqaIl Qi joj E.gl isrlTiAiTr handling drunkards know about 33 To cnt short 34 PlumUke fruit 36 Dwelled 38 Floata In air 41 Man's nickname 43 Apportions 44 Bow of ship 45 To plead 47 Old 49 To petition 50 Russian nam .53 JMlly 54 Symbol tor selenium 58 To testify 57 Thoroughfare 58 Later 60 Listens to ACBOSS 1 Savory 6 Vapor 11 Conceit 13 Consternation 14 Prefix: not 15 Singing vole 17 Unusual 1 Youug boy 30 To earn 33 Ordinance 23 Shortening 35 Rescued 3T French article 38 Mohammedan noble TO Absorbed knowledge court and Gallegos- to another, and never the twain shall meet in exile even for.

a drink and a good cry over the hardships life- in Miami that. But Republicans at least would try to taper off the patient and get back to a reasonable ration of toddy. Beach. 1 Maximiliano Hernandez Marti nez, former president of Salvador, the Russians understand that preliminary boy so forlorn that he that Mr. Hoover has provided by is also sitting -out a spell of exue carried his own bucket, asking a It broke Dewey's heart to be licked by Truman and that is his trouble.

Everything he has done since then has been mean, vindictive, and (Copyright, 1949. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) timely coincidence. here. Senor Hernandez Martinez, great political institution to become a mere imitation and accomplice of be corrected solely through counseling. Other families ap- pealing to the society must have to put it roughly, was.

tossed out on his ear by his fellow citizens on May 8, 1944, and had the good 1 sense Roosevelt's venture into -national Band-Wagon Riders socialism. This thing was not honestly Roosevelt's but was thrown to head for Florida. money to carry them along. Yet, Miss B. Ethelda Mullen, ex purpose.

But the Senate debate has caused confusion. The sooner we can dispel that confusion, the better. If the language of the pact should be vague our actions can be made unmistakable. That is the best way of repairing any damage that has been done. Cuban politicians really pioneered the Miami Beach area as a refuge for officials cut of favor with the One fact has been turned up by Department of Agriculture! together, by his court of nostalgic coptinentalists and put forward through him as an American New Editorials FROM OTHER PAPERS Overworking the Goose (Denton Journal) home-town electorale.

As the boil officials who have been looking Deal. When I describe these sensuous parasites as continentalists I do so ing point of Cuban voters is notoriously low, politicians 'always have found it advisable to have a olane or boat handy- in case of 2 3 5 1 8. 9 lio ST" iT" 17 77 58 39 HO '221 i nt so as to include not only tnose wno were born in Europe and never quit DOWN 1 A low bow 3 Indefinite article 3 Seed 4 Single thing 5 Units of fore 6 Labors 1 Symbol for tellurium 8 To be mistakes 9 Sea in Asia 10 Mental state 11 Pretentious country resldene 13 To be married again 18 Spoken 19 Women's garment 21 Fresh-water duck 24 Rough fabric 26 To sag 29 Is borne 31 Approaches 33 More trivial 35 Fanatical 36 A number 37 College official 39 Wakes up 40 Sugary 43 To cut recklessly 46 To stare 48 Heraldry: grafte4 51 The present 53 Period of time 66 Compass point S8 Teutonic deity At the recent convention of the United Mine Workers, a great deal emergency. looking longingly back over their Gen. Fulgenciov Batista, former ecutive secretary, reported that last year only one family received financial aid for a longer period than six months.

From this, it is evident that the chief purpose of the society, which is to try to get distressed families in a position where they can support themselves, is being pretty generally achieved. of discussion centered around future shoulders, but native Americans wno forgot that the American system Dresident of Cuba, spent several Temporary Respite demands that the union may make meant independence and individual pleasant years in exile -here during the presidency of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin who, in turn, was an united States District Court on the soft coal operators. The in dications were that these will in ity by contrast with dependence and the concept of man the mass elude still higher wages, still short There were both kinds in Roosevelt's into recent commodity market dealings to find out if recent sharp price breaks stemmed from manipulation. "It is that speculative activity increased considerably just about the time that quotations plunged downward.

This means that more buying and selling went on as prices slipped. But the officials are frank to say that they have yet to discover whether unwarranted buying or selling tactics were Judge Harold R. Medina has been as patient as a presiding exile in Miami Beach during Batista's incumbency. (Turn about be New DeaL There were the immi er working days, an increase in vacation payments, -and so on down the line. grants such as Frankfurter and ing fair play, or something.) When Carlos Prio Socarras, cur judge can be after his court has and the native despondents The desire of any working group been turned into a melee for rent president of Cuba, sueceeded to get as much as it can is under Dr.

Grau in the office at the last election. Batista-Respite his exile nearly a month. Monday he Mr. Billbpp However, in the case of kr Catu nun HimIIh' it bt the coal miners, this raises the ex was elected to the Cuban Senate. told the battery of attorneys who, in sport, would be called gutless.

Most of these latter were tempted by 6uch frippery as private offices and toothsome secretaries, free, long distance calls to the New York and California horse-tracks, free limousine service, and invita tremely- pertinent question of just GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty where the limit may be. At the pres Thus Batista has gone home to Havana. But Miami Beach is on the alert to welcome Dr. Grau back Bathtub Rims Rims axe- left in batfatubs by ent time, 60 cents out of each and every dollar taken in by coal pro defending the 11 American Communists being tried for conspiracy that he had had enough Te agree. at any moment.

ducers goes for labor costs. The in responsible for the slump. So the inference is that there may dustry's profits have been moderate. The only, way out, therefore, would Miamians, hep- to the -undercurrent of Latin American affairs, feel that Dr. Grau in interests of his health, is apt to land, on this Since the opening of the trial be no proof at all of any con be to again boost the cost of coal to nearly a month ago, the de hospitable shore at any moment.

the consumer and that is where the danger lies. Coal, vital as it is. must be sold in intense competition with all fuels. North American politicians also l.enaing attorneys nave completely stalled the normal nection between the market activity and manipulation. A connection might exist, of course.

But when any market find this climate most salubrious If the price should become too high, Gen. Philip B. Fleming, federal works administrator. came down processes of judicial procedure there would be greater use of these other fuels, and a consequent decline hey have developed a charge shows a definite trend, down or in the use of coal. And then the here some days ego to announce, in his shirt sleeves, that $500,000 in relief had been appropriated" for" the members of the family who show a chronic distaste for scrubbing the tub after they have taken a bath.

They mean to scrub the tub out, of course But -they are in a hurry to go somewhere or just forget. Meanwhile a stranger may enter the bathrocm, see the dark -rim in the tub, and derive therefrom a most unfavorable impression of the family. However, there is in every family one member who Is continually being put upon by all the others and whose physical exhaustion, aching back, and peace of mind are never considered. It will devolve upon that member to wash out the tub. The operation will be performed with a stiff brush, a rag, and a up, it oiten nappens that ac miners' high-wrage jobs would de cline.

nations snow-bound areas. tivity increases. Some traders Right now the soft coal miners are highest paid industrial workers in make it a habit to watch for Mayor Frank Hague, the boss of Jersey City, has been resting in the the world. They have made spec such movements so that they sun as has Maurice Tobin, secre tacular gains, not only in wages but of bias against the system of Jury panels in New. York into condemnation of jury trials in general.

They have brought to the witness chair a parade of so-called experts whose testimony is supposed to have upheld their point. Under cross-scamination, one of their most tary of labor. Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson has been here can jump in at the beginning, in living and working conditions, twice this season. Gov.

Human tions to the cocktail brawls of Washington, Palm Beach, and Miami. They included a sordid crew of academic bums from the Ivy League and- the leaky roof hutches of the western stretch. They got a taste of high life in Washington, got divorced, and stole from the public files all the material' that nobody else had stolen already, suitable for blackmail or other ulterior use in the private practice of law. The whole pack of them took charge of Roosevelt in his first year and got him to revoke every promise and principle that he had uttered in his campaign. The shock of this audacity was so great that few patriotic citizens had the presence of mind to appreciate the enormity of his defiance.

Alf Landon was one of them. Today few of the old voters, and none below the age of 30, realize that any such episode ever occurred. Having no principle, Roosevelt found it not even inconvenient, far less immoral, to reverse his campaign without notice and become an imitation of Adolf Hitler but. using Hitler as his dirty dog while Hitler used Stalin for his. While Hitler's brown shirts, under license from Der Fuehrer, attacked bewildered unoffending Jews, Roosevelt's goons, under similar license and organization, set upon whole communities of innocent Americans and spread terror organizing the CIO.

The CIO is today an enormous, party auxiliary make their profit, and then jump out before they get caught in and a long list of other tangible benefits. It would be the part of wisdom for them to consider how Talmadge of Georgia was here ear lier in the winter. they may help protect the market President Harry S. Truman passes the reaction. They don't always figure it right but the point is for the product that supports them rather than imperil it with exces over or around Miami Beach from time to time en route to Key West Important witnesses was finally sive perennial demands.

for a breathing spell. He -is expected this way "again early' in March. forced to admit that his testimony was based on fallacious figures. No Discrimination (Cincinnati Enquirer) Quotation Marks At the close of last Friday's In handing out relief funds to non-Communistic peoples, why should we discriminate against the Eskimos? Couldn't they handily use Universities, above all institutions in 'society, "must serve the cause of cleanser. It will be accompanied by mutterings over the.

thoughtlessness and indifference of others. There will be groans over having to kneel. There will be protestations that the family would soon be in the gutter were it not for this one member who, in the face of terrific odds, tries to uphold the family standards. There will be a solemn pledge never again to do all the family's work. Nevertheless, the job eventually is done and the tub is left rimless and shining, ready to meet the most critical inspection.

CHRISTOPHER BELLOPP session, Judge Medina had or- that they add "their; weight "to the pendulum and thus exaggerate its swing. Whether this phenomenon occurred in early February is not entirely clear. The officials have learned that- the volume of trading in corn and wheat futures was much higher during the first 10 days of the month than in January. On the other freedom, because only in that cli half a billion dollars or so? mate can they survive to serve at alL Dr. J.

L. Morrill, president, oerea tne defense to suomit a complete memorandum of what they intended to and how University of Minnesota. Definition (Detroit News) l4 Saa u4 ThM Oft they Intended to do it. Monday, Dirt cheap: The hot historical novel unabridged in a 25-cent re Hollywood is not making as much money as is popularly thought. Producer David O.

Selznick. Judge Medina told them the I "I think Fenwlck Is imposing- on our hospitality, Fignewton think he's merely trying: to break up cold. print. with unlimited powers of taxation,.

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