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PAGE FOUR ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26,1947 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Published by Alton Telegraph Printing Company. P. B. COUSLEY, Managing Editor.

Published dally; subscript ion'price 20 cents weekly by carrier; by mall, a year within 100 miles; $9 beyond 100 miles. Entered as second-class matter a' the postofflce, at Alton, 111,, Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. 25 Years Ago MEMBEK OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press It exclusively entitled to the me for publication of all news dlipslches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this paper, and to the local news published herein. Local and contract Information on npptuatlon nt the Telegraph business office, 111 East Broadway. Alton.

111., National Advertising Representative New York, Chicago, Detroit. The Bond Issue for Garbage Collecting The- voters of Alton will have an opportunity to vote in the city election next Tuesday on a proposal for issuing $46,000 in city bond's to equip its gar- b.tgc collection system with new trucks, and with a proper place to store them. Bond issues should not be voted just because thcy are asked, but in this case there is great need for a solution of our garbage collecting system. There is urgent need for replacing the wornout trucks, which repeatedly break down and thereby add to the difficulties of providing adequate garbage collecting. The cost of keeping the trucks in operation is high, as the trucks were second hnnd when they were bought and were in no good condition at the time the city acquired them; but it was tlffe best that could be done at the time.

The collecting of garbage and refuse is a necessary part of the services needed by the people from the city government. Unless it is done it probably will be necessary to cease collecting ashes and other refuse and limit the citys garbage disposal work to collecting only perishable garbage such as would cre- nte bad health conditions and become offensive to sight and smell as well. The city government, has a real problem on its Should it be forced to discontinue garbage and refuse-collecting there -would arise a great protest from the people, but it is manifestly impossible to continue this service without issuing bonds, which are to be voted on in the city election. Inquiry in a number of cities about Alton's size as to their experience with garbage and refuse collecting shows that all but one of them has ceased private contract work for this purpose. That single one reported its own experience as very unsatisfactory.

Alton's experience with private contract garbage and refuse collecting has likewise been a painful one, There seems no hope of continuing the collecting of garbage and refuse except by city control and to do this the bond issue to buy new equipment is essential. Mayor Wadlow and the city council members have given careful consideration to the problem and can see but the one out. The city must vote the bond issue or must suffer serious impairment of its service in garbage and refuse collecting. So it is up to the people to do what necessary by Voting for the bond issue of a Daylight Time Our neighboring city of St. Louis will vote on daylight-saving time on April 1, and indications are the people of the Missouri metropolis will decide to keep daylight time.

So far, the question of daylight time has had only casual mention in Alton Gity Council, but with the question to be voted on in St. next week, our aldermen should direct their attention to this important question. Last year, we conformed to the St. Louis schedule, as did other communities in our district. Daylight time generally found wide favor, and we believe the great majority of the people in the Alton district favor the time.

We respectfully submit to the City Council that, St. Louis voting on April 1, the question of providing for daylight time should be considered. With April 27 the date set for moving the clock forward ah hour, two meetings will be held by the council between the St. Louis vote and that date; so the council will have time in which to prepare and pass an ordinance providing for daylight time. Sere.

Mueller's Reapportionment Plan The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has sharply criticized Senator Milton Mueller of the 47th Senatorial and offering'an amendment to the rcapportionment bill now before the Illinois Legislature. Senator Mueller aims to separate Madison from being connected with St. Clair County, The Post-Dispatch has not considered one point, and that is Madison does not wish to continue relations with St. Clair County which involves forced association with St, Clair County politics.

It is prob- sblc that if the City of St. Louis was in a similar position it would not wish to remain connected with St. Clair County either. The reputation of St. Clair County is too offensive, too odious, for any county to wish to rcmnin attached to it.

It would be a happy arrangement if we could be separated in our judicial circuits also from St. Clair County. Senator Mueller deserves no hostile criticism. He docs deserve the thanks of the people of Madison County for making the effort to separate us from St. Clair County in our congressional district.

Treacherous March The springtime was three days old, and what happened? The d.iy began with the temperature in the mild sixties. Then the mercury began to slip; came rain, then sleet, then snow, more rain, and the mercury had nose-dived 16 degrees within three hours before it began again modest rise, the while a high and fhill wind continued to blow. of spring is this? in such ia'Ptration for an ode to the young sea- fon? Wi conjure vp pictures of pastoral beauty ajtechattering? can woo the muse his window? the March we had so long rear ago had brought us id bvi'n spent. Always ro welcome. ig days are few.

desire to We want to Toll and we imjer need- March 26, 1922 Two women who had been charged with assaulting Mrs. Oara Lowe, police matron, when Mrs. Lowe attempted to exclude them from an Upper Alton dance hall on the ground that they were too scantily dressed, were found Innocent by a jury In the court of Justice of the Peace Lessner. The jury took the view that the women had not been too scantily attired and that they were justified in resisting efforts to toss them out the dance hall. Witnesses for the prosecution were saiB to have made out a poor case, some forgetting at the last minute.

Two policemen, who were expected tb give damaging testimony, admitted that they had not arrived at the scene until the Incident was more or less closed. Mrs. C. H. Updike, who operated a grocery store on State street near Bellevlew, received two letters containing money.

Both explained that they legally owed the money enclosed. One missive contained a penny, the other $1.79. Mrs. Updike commented that she could easily see how someone might pick up a penny's worth of goods and slip out of the store with it, but she couldn't understand how she had ever let anybody leave the place with $1.79 worth of merchandise without paying. It was announced.

that at a business meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society of First Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Lucinda Matthews would observe her fiftieth anniversary as president of the organization. Host- at the meeting were to be Mrs. A. B.

Wyckoff, Mrs. H. C. Evans, Mrs. H.

Mrs. Edgar Hollister, Mrs. L. M. Carr, Mrs.

Frank P. Hearne, Mrs. William F. Sherwood. The first installment of "If Winter Comes," a by A.

S. M. Hutchinson, was carried in the Telegraph today. The story was being prjnted with much fan-fare and the newspaper considered It quite a move to have the local newspaper publication rights. The book was a best-seller, having sold more than a million copies and Hutchinson was the literary- anointed calf of the moment.

George A. Sauvage, operator of the Sauvage billiard hall, was notified by Western Union that during the approaching baseball' season wire service conveying baseball news would be boosted from $25 a month to $35 a month for week-day service. Sauvage had been paying $10 a Sunday for Sunday wire service and no change in the Sunday charge was indicated. Rex Beach, noted writer, appeared as a character witness in Jersey City in a case in which Tex Rickard, the country's top boxing promoter, was being tried on a technical charge of rape. Beach testified that in Alaska, where he had known Rickard well, the sports promoter always had been knOwn "as a square guy." Francis Manning, who had been attending law school and who had just been admitted to the bar, was visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. F. M. Meaning of Wood River. Members of the Wood River Library Board met at the Ratz and Riggs drug store at Wood River to lay final plans for the opening of the Wood River Library on April l.

Some furnishings were still needed ahd' a librarian was yet to be appointed. Members of the board asserted that they wanted to appoint a Wood River resident and had received several applications. They said the post of librarian would be a "very desirable position" because it would pay a minimum of a month. Members of the board were Mrs, E. F.

Werner, Mrs. Charles Graves, Mrs. Riggs, Mrs. Manning, Mrs. E.

Towey and Mrs. G. A. Smith, 50 Years Ago March 26, 1897 Supt. T.

Taylor of New England Water Co. conferred with city officials to announce that his company would present for consideration of City Council a new proposal to furnish filtered water in return for a franchise Under the proposal, the company would purchase from the city the waterworks site at $1000 and provide fire plugs at $55 a year. He explained that financing difficulties, due to the hard times affecting the money market, had hampered the company in making more satisfactory previous proposals. The city was seeking to void the company's present franchise because of complaint over the murky water being supplied. Meantime, from Mayor A.

E. Benbow of Upper Alton came a threat to sue the water company for taxes of about $40 on Its pipe line extended into the new village limits. The pipe line was one laid in Milton road as far as the Chessen place. A Circuit Court jury awarded Mrs. Hannah Davis of Godfrey verdict against the C.

because spreading from the railroad right-of-way killed 143 trees In her orchard. She valued 111 peach trees at $6 each, and 32 pear trees at $3 each, relief headquarters in the old postoffice rooms of City Hall, and virtually suspend operations until the next winter. The report of Mrs. S. Demuth, superintendent, showed that an average of 35 children a day had been fed a noon meal dally during the last month of the winter season, and that one cold, snowy day, 72 children were fed.

Richard Qenother, one of the successful farmers of Foster township, had bought the Christ Hltte farm, east of Fosterburg. It formerly was known as the Wortman place. Consideration on the farm was $6000, or $50 an acre. Mild, fair weather had at last appeared and directors of Provident Association voted to close their Friends surprised C. W.

Renfrew at his home on East Fifth for a celebi-ut'lon of his sixty-first birthday. A children's group gnvo an evening entertainment at the T. M. Guy home for benefit of the fund being raised for the Woman's Mrs. B.

F. Sargent left for Dallas to visit her son, E. L. Sargent. A jury in Circuit Court gave Miss Julia Buckmaster an award of $700 in her damage suit Against the C.

A. because of Injury In fall on one of Its trains. Two test borings made by a drilling company for the village of Upper Alton, had failed to. disclose a suitable well location for a municipal water supply, and now a third to be mode. first boring was made near the Big Four tracks, south of Washington Garden on the to East Alton, but rock was encountered at 18 feet.

The second boring, 200 feet to the south, struck solid rock with little water at 32 feet. The third test was to be made ebout 700 feet south of the highway. Both Mississippi and Missouri rivers were rising, and current In the Missouri was so rapid that it almost halted navigation. The Steamer WUdwood, route to St. Charles with a derrick boat end quar- terboat of a contracting company, found It could no progress pushing 1U tow, and had to tie up the quartwhoftt and proceed with the derrick alone, 4 i' Says 'Lef Wing' of Congress Resorts To Intimidation By DAVID LAWRENCE.

WASHINGTON, March the Republican majority has not yet finished the major pieces of legislation that It will present to President Truman, the "left wing" Is beginning a campaign of Intimidation by talking about presidential vetoes. Mr. Truman took the advice of the left-wingers on OPA legislation last summer and vetoed a bill which was obviously the wish of the country and the Congress. As a consequence, the Democratic party lost Congress. Following more of the same kind of advice will cause Mr.

Truman to lose the 1948 presidential election. From a Republican viewpoint, nothing could bring a better break politically than a series of Truman vetoes, for It would furnish the spark for the 1948 campaign which would then be designed to get rid of an obstructionist President. The Republicans could argue that they needed an even bigger majority In Congress and a Republican In the White House In order to achieve the reforms which they will have put up to President Truman and- which, if a series of vetoes comes, would have been blocked. Thus, the portal-to-portal bill is thoroughly understood as to its objectives by the country. If Mr.

Truman takes the side of the groups which have been organizing a huge campaign of extortion on a technicality, the damage to the economic system will be so apparent that the responsibility of President Truman for the chaos that could conceivably follow would be plain. Again, if Mr. Truman listens to left-wing pleas and vetoes a tax- reduction bill, the Democratic party might as well dispense with the holding of a nominating convention in 1948. The trouble with the left wing is the deep-seated view they hold that only by left-wing tactics can the President be re-elected in 1948. The left wing has had control for so long that it cannot imagine government or elections, without continuous power by their group.

But there is not the slightest evidence as yet that Mr. Truman will put his political future in jeopardy by following the radical groups in his party. If he turns to the left again, he will be following the New Deal doctrines against which -there has been a rising tide of sentiment ever since the 1944 presidential election. Only the "commahder-in-chief" li argument and the existence of a- state of war- saved the Democratic party from defeat in 1944. In when the war had been ended, anti-New Deal feeling of the elect torate was manifested by the election of a Republican majority in both houses of Congress.

Those of the New Deal school pf thought who are advising Mr. Truman to veto what the majority in Congress are about to propose in major legislation are assuming that the country will back up their view 1948. This means that their opposition to tax reduction, portal-to-pprtal reforms and a reduction of government expenses would have to be defended at the polls by the Democrats in the face of a growing trend toward anti- New Dealism and anti-radicalism in America. Mr. Truman has lately gained in popularity because he hai abandoned the radical side.

He will bs urged to continue that courw offering him the best chance ror re-election. The hints ani' intimations that Mr. Truman will veto the major laws passed by Republican Congress emanate from those with whom the wish is father to the thought. Until Mr. Truman gives evidence that he means to obstruct the will of the majority In there is no ground tor attributing to him a return to the role the New Dealers wish him to follow.

(Reproduction RighU Heurvtd) The City of Alton today is made up of what onct was a number of smaller Alton, Huriterstown, Sempletown, Upper Alton, Salu, Greenwood (later North Alton), Yager Park, Bering Addition, Highland Park, Altona. SIDE GLANCteS "When I'm short. I can always borrow a buck or two frorri one of my make almost as much aa I do, sitting with babies!" The WASHINGTON MERRY -GO -ROUND By Drew Tax Czar Knutson Operates Steamroller in Committee The late Otto F. Nagel was the first mayor of the city of Wood River. WASHINGTON, March Is easy to understand why tax-czar Congressman Knutson of Minnesota Oars the press and public from discussions of the tax bill by his ways and means committee.

Were' tfie public present, they would witness the same mockery of democratic procedure for which we criticize Russia. When the amazing new tax bill came before the last closed session of the means committee, the only thing the Democrats knew about it was what they had read in the morning newspapers And they didn't know much more when the meeting was over and the bill approved. Rep. Aime Forartd, forthrlghl Rhode 1 Island Democrat; asked Chairman Knutson if the committee majority would permit his ap pearance before the House rules committee to argue for a chance to offer his own bill as a substitute for the majority bill. Eorand's tax bill Increases individual exemptions and those for dependents to $700.

Chairman Knutson promptly shook his head. "But," remonstrated Forand "that is what we did for the Republican minority in 1943. When the Ruml plan was offered in opposition to the majority bill, we let Republican members argue before the rules committee." "Well," Knutson replied Impatiently, "we had a coalition government then." "Yes," muttered Muley Bob Doughton, Nqrth Carolina Demo crat and former committee chairman. "We had a coalition in the sense that both the Republican and the Democratic members of the committee worked on Tax legislation." "When will my bill he taken up by the pressed Forand. 1 "When the time is propitious," snapped Knutson.

"When will the time propitious?" persisted the Rhode congressman. Banging his gavel, Knutson made no reply. As the committee was about to vote out the Knutson tax bill, the committee's counsel mentioned that TOONERVILLE FOLKS By Fox he would not have the by Rep. Thomas' Martin'of, Iowa finally drafted until the following Monday. Because It was-such a highly technical amendment, counsel explained that it would take time to shape up the proper language.

Despite this, Knutson insisted that the committee vote the bill out, even though 'the congressmen did not, know the language of the tax measure they were approving. Warned by the counsel that changes might be necessary, Knutson snapped: "All right, all right, let the Senate take care of that." "Does the chairman have a to operate a steamroller?" asked one committee member. But the tax czar rapped his gavel and adjourned the meeting. Secret "Black Book" on Greece Here's the inside story of the mysterious "Little Black Book'' about Greece. Acting'Secretary of State Dean Acheson passed the book out to members of the House foreign affairs committee last week on condition they keep it? contents strictly confidential, which caused G.

O. P. Representative Bob Chlp- erfield of Illinois to pass the book back to Acheson, saying he dldn 1 want to read it under'that condition. Despite the veil of secrecy, it can be revealed that the book gives unimpeachable State' Department evidence that guerrilla forces now trying to overthrow the Greek government are receiving substantial aid from Communists in Russian-controlled Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria. The leaders of the Greek uprising themselves are unquestionably Communists, the "Little Black Book" states.

It goes on to report that the Greek people are overwhelmingly anti-Communist, though a "great many" are -also opposed to King voted into office as the lesser of two evils. The book states that 84 percent of the Greek voters voted for the king in last year's election and adds that the American commission which observed! 11 the election was unanimous in the view that the balloting was conducted "honestly and fairly." The State Department report frankly admitted, however, that many who voted for the king did so because he "symbolizes 'opposition to the (Communist) aggressor." The secret notebook paid high compliment to the present Greek government as a whole, claiming that parliament is made up largely of middle-of-the-road conservatives, w-ho favor the American type of democracy and can be depended upon to do a good governing job, once we get the Greek nation back on its feet financially. Should Help Turkey The same is true of Turkey, where great strides are being made toward the American concept of democracy, accprdlng to Achoson's black book. Statistics In the book state that Turkey Is much better off financially than Greece, and that, contrary to mojt amaU nations, living there are going down instead of In fact, thestftjiUcs regarding Turkey appeared sTwUmistlc that the Slate Pepwtnjfnt may hurt iU'casf. reading the Uttle Black members of the House foreign affairs committee ft that we should confine our aid to Greece, giving none to Remarked 0, O.

P. Rep. Bartel tankman of Michigan! "If what the State Department says is true, then maybe the United states ought to tobly for a loan from turkey, toot our helping her," liUtlng Secrecy Veil South Dakota deserves chief credit for smoking) (put the long-secret agreements. if Mundt had been Hounding State' Department officials lot- 'some time, urging that they let the American people know the content of these agreements; but the State 0eparfcfttent rejected his appeals on 'the amazing, grounds that the secret papers were of "nd Last week, however, while acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson was appearing before the House foreign affairs committee, Mundt collared him and refused to take "no" for an answer, "The war has been over more than a year and a half and the State Department can no longer use the argument of security In keeping these documents secret," South Dakotan told Acheson. "Furthermore, the American people have every right to tonow any com- mltments we as Result of the war.

They tell ma the Russian citizens' rule Russia, 'though I don't believevlt. Well, why shouldn't American citizens rule America?" Acheson'said he agreed, but Inquired why Mundt seemed so anxious to have the Yalta and Potsdam compacts, as well as that made at Tehran, made public. "I'll tell you replied the gentleman from South Dakota. "Because it's impossible to chart our, course into the future without knowing all the steps to the (Copyright, 1MT, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The.slraffe, is a id to Art exceptionally long tongue. What 14 Us usual, length? s.

W. A. The tongue the glrafh may be a foot' and a half i on( The uses for leaves from tall trees. Answers To Questions Mall Inquiries to information Bureau, Haskin Service, 316 Eye St. Washington, D.

C. Enclose 3 cents for return postage. Q. Row does crude oil flow in a pipeline? R.I. Pumps located from 20 to 40 miles keeps the crude oil moving at about miles an hour in a pipeline from 2 to 16 inches in diameter.

Q. Has Admiral)King retired? K. O. £. A.

Admiral Ernest J. King is still on'active Ijow did the terms "rlfeht" and "left" come into politics? R. J. A. In some legislative bodies in Europe, such as France it was customary for the members sitting to the right of the presiding officer to be members of the conservative or monarchist party, while those on the left -were liberals or radicals.

Those holding moderate views sat in the-center, hence the terms, right and left, have come to mean conservative and liberal. Q. What was or is "O'Connell's J. A. A.

"O'Connell's Tail" was a nickname applied to the parliamentary followers of Daniel O'Connell, the noted Irish national leader, after the Reform JBill of 1832. Q. Please tell me the best way of repairing broken soil pipe made of clay, the type of pipe found inmost cellars. A piece, is broken out and I want to cement it back in without replacing the whole pipe? W. C.

A. The Bureau of Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture says broken soil pipes may be repaired by using a band of metal lathe and cement plaster. Q. Where is the oldest Christian church in the world? P. E.

H. A. What Is considered to be the oldest gtlll in Christian use 0 1 0 th Nativltv In Bethfehefti Palestine. In well as 1ft structure Wft ns to a large the which Constantino built sided grottd, the legendar the slory connected with'hot buns? B. c.

A. For Centuries hot cross buns have been a feature of Good Prl. day observance. The origin of the custom is traced to pagan times when similar cakes were offered to the ancient gods, The bum I can be traced through the Jewish Passover cakes and on through the eucharlstic bread, or cross-marked wafers mentioned in St. Chrysostom's Liturgy.

The dough for the buns was made of the same dough kneaded for ihe Host, or the bread or wafer 1 used In the sacrament of Holy Communion. The buns were marked'with a cross indicating the passion of Jesus Christ and were said to keep twelve months with-j out turning mouldy. Q. What became of Cher Ami, the homing pigeon which carried to headquarters the message describing the plight of the Lost Battalion In World War A- The pigeon's right leg was shattered and he was wounded in wing and breast. Although the leg v'as amputated, he was returned to this country on the-Army transport Ohioan in officers cabin by the order of General' Pershing.

When died Cher "Ami Was stuffed and placed in the National Museum In Washington, D. C. How large was the rock that is reported to have been ejected from the Japanese volcano Asama- yama? J. R. M.

A. This volcano, one of the mOst violently active in Japan, in 1783, hurled into a river a stone which measured 264 by 120 feet and looked as large as an island after it landed. Q. Why are there so many bald-headed men and so few bald- headed women? H. P.

L. A. It Is true that many more men than women are bald. Men become bald more frequently than women because It is part of the. such as the at-1 rangemeht'Of hailr" on the body fnd How long do mayflies live? C.

E. P. A. The adults of some species of mayflies liye only a few and those of longest life exist only two days. They eat nothing and their only purpose is to reproduce their kind.

Q. Is the First Marine Raider Battalion, First Raider Regiment, the most highly decorated battalion of the entire United States armed forces? C. B. F. A.

It is impossible for the War and Navy Departments to name the most highly decorated battalion. Various outfits are still being awarded decorations even though hostilities have ceased. The First Marine Raider Battalion had peak strength of 547 men and officers. Citations which were Issued to this battalion in the field were only temporary. Permanent citations are now being issued and it will be some time before complete records are available.

Q. Is; the process of hardenlM copper k'npwn tpday? J- R- A. There are at present a variety of copper alloys, some higher quality than can be founfl in any ancient artifacts. The process for hardening copper consists in making a copper which is inherently hard or can be be made so by heat-treating work-hardening. st f-V Anthropologist HORIZONTAL 1,8 Pictured anthropologist 14 Visionary 15 Native 16 Forest tree 17 Wait settlement 19 Redact VERTICAL 1 Edlbje tuber's 2 Ascended 3 Network 4 National Automobile Association, 5 Type measure 20 Full of (suffix) 6 Social unit 7 Woody plant 8 Secrete He is the 32 Scottish cap Harvard staff 10 Unit 11 Children 28 Compaq point jjj Jgjg 45 rern 21 Simmered 23 Toper 24 Eye 25 Pint (ab.) 26 For example (ab.V 20 Show contempt 31 Paired 33 numo 3'1 Note of Glliflo'S KflllO 35 Interval 37 Wunderer 40 Exclamation 41 Diminutive suinx 42 Township (ob.) 43 Negative 44 Bevel-pip 46 Dia-hargis rtfclt 94 In addition 85 Ache.

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