Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 4

PAGE FOUR ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Published by Alton Telegraph Printing Company. B. COUSLKV. Managing Edltot. Published dally; subscription price 25 cents weekly by carrier; by mall, $6.00 year within 100 miles; $0 beyond 100 miles, Entered as second-class matter i the postofflce, at Alton, Act of Congress, March 3, 187U, ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH MEMREH OP TtlR ASSOCIATED PRKM The Anooclated Preti inUUed to tht for publication of newft credited to It or not otherwise credited to end to Uit newt putallihed herein.

Locnl and contract Information on application at tho Luninew ollice, til EMI Brondwa.v. Alton. National Advertising Hepresentatlve Weit-llolllday New York, Chicago, Detroit. On a City Plan Recent from the directors of GAAC that now be an opportune time to undertake .1 new civic development plan, looking quarter of a century, as a reminder lliat the present: official city plan of Alton, adopted in 1928, is ncaring its twentieth birthday. The birthday is of peculiar significance because the plan "prepared on the basis of a 20-year period with belief that at end of that time it would have to be revised and extended Zoning and building regulations subdivision control matters arc frequently in the news and in the city council proceedings.

Yet, the major fact thai- Alton ha5 a regularly enacted, legally-binding civic development plan, of which y.oning, building, and subdivision controls arc merely complimentary parts, rnay be unknown to newer residents and a matter forgotten by older residents. Many features of the 20-year-old city development program may be out of date. Admittedly, the building code is outmoded in many respects, according to city officials, who for almost two years have been discussing advisability of an amendatory program. Sonic of the zoning regulations have been subject of criticism and complaint. After all, time has moved forward and it is a healthy manifestation of civic vitality that fin organization to which citizens now look to for leadership in matters of community progress should be turning attention to that vitally important matter of an adequate plan to meet new conditions.

Numerous reasons may be offered us to the need of a new city plan at this time. A new postwar era has opened. Many federal projects interlocked with future city nnd community improvements arc looming in addition to what would be routine for the city and community itself. And with these, there nrc important problems to be of finance nnd sound policy as well as engineering. A major expansion of buildings already has been put before the public by the school board.

The city already has a number of postwar plans well rounded out SU ch as the new Elm-Central viaduct. But elected officials can't do it all. Intelligent public interest nnd appreciation will be needed. Planning studies citizens participating would help arouse this intcress and secure public cooperation for finding the right answers as community development roovcs forward. No plan, irrespective of its excellence, is worth more than the power that can be marshaled to carry it out.

Alton's plan of 1928 was competently engineered, carefully constructed, and tailored in most respects to what were determined at the time to be the city's peculiar needs. Enforcement provisions were as adequate as they could be made at the time of City Council adoption, Reading of the plan reveals that many long range goals, still desirable, remain un- attaincd. Yet, in whatever respects the plan may have failed, study reveal the fault lies elsewhere than with officials. City Plan Commission and Board of Appeals members over 19 years have labored faithfully, and, we feel, with due foresight in the matters of guidance and enforcement placed in their hands under the planning ordinances. But during this same period, it would appear, the community slipped into an attitude of apathy to possibilities of the plan.

The leavening effcxt of adequate public interest has been lacking. There are reasons for this absence of sustained public interest in the development scheme. First the planning program was swept into the shoals of a long depression. It unfortunately was launched on an ebb-tide of prosperity that all but wrecked all major public improvement programs, and many minor ones, as well. Then, just as the tide was reversing, came War II and its resultant eclipse of public improvements.

Preliminary to active work on a new plan, it might be advantageous to give study to the old; to find why many of its features have been carried out notable success, and just why some major goals remain unattained. Then the new program can framed with ultimate attainment made just as much the objective ns sound planning. The city needs a suitable development plan. But most of all it would seem the means for a perennial polishing that will keep its objectives shining bright in the eyes of the public. 25 Years Ago April 28, 1922 Ata meeting at Godfrey a group of Allonlans am Representative Otto Sonnemann of Caflinville at tempted to ploclotc Godfrey residents who were dis gruntled over having the proposed Allon-Jerseyvlll road by-paw the community.

Following the meeting which was attended by H. C. Wllhlte, E. M. Dor sey and Louis J.

Hartmann of Alton, it was announc ed that everybody was somcbod; hurried up and did something about paving the Al ton-Godfrey road. This, everybody agreed, would to done forthwith and Dr. W. H. Smith and Dorse; were named a committee to put, on the necessary hent in quarters where It would do the most good When an nppenl was made for Red Cross fund to aid flood victims It was found that at Modora thi Rod Cross had morn than $2000 in the Red Cross organization.

A meeting to formally or gftnlze a Red Cross Chapter so that the money couli legally be withdrawn was being planned. Nearly two weeks ago, the result of continuou rains, a wall at the Henry Gulp home on Wllllan street caved In. Great concern was expressed fo children of the family, It being feared Uiol they had boon burled, but they were found playing at Uncli Remus Park. Today, work of restoring the wall we; started and hen, which had boon burled since thi cave-In, strutted out of the debris, cackled, foum herself a drink of water and walked away. Thoo Schonk underwent an appendicitis operation at St.

Joseph's Hospital. Mrs. Harvey Crane went to Cairo, where her father was. ill. The Avondale 500 club met at the home of Mrs William Turk on Alby street.

Miss Lillle Bauer of Seventh and Langdon enter talned of her Saturday Night Card Club. The Officers Club of the Women's Benefit Asso elation of Maccabees met at the home of Mrs, Loul; Favre of Gold street. The group was slated to mee next at the home of Mrs. William Flagg of Wes Fifteenth street. Local theaters were showing: "Hoot" Gibson In "The Bearcat;" Geraldlne Farrar in "The Woman and the Puppet;" William Desmond in "Women Men Love;" Compson in "The Green Frank Mayo in "The Man Who Married His Own Wife;" Karle Williams In "Lucky Carson." Mrs.

M. F. Manning, Mrs. George McCollum and Mrs. Joseph Bund of Wood River attended a lea at Rock Spring Country Club.

Grant Benncr, Raymond Rlgg and Paul Frociner of Wood River were erecting a wireless aerial on top of the Wood River school building. Mrs. Waller Pershall of Wood River entertained members of the Colonial Maids Club of Granite City. Alton Blues baseball team was to open the season against Roberts Coke team of St. Louis on April 30 at Alton's Sportsman's Park.

Eddie Bennett was slated to hurl for Alton, with Sox Parker, reputedly the best catcher in the Trolley League, behind the plate. Walter (Punk) Wood was to play second. 50 Years Ago That armed, force underlies diplomacy has been made abundantly Thomas Klnkald, Commander Eastern Sea Frontier. Good IScics The people of Alum will join the members of St. Patrick's parish in ivjoicins at the news brought back from Springfield by the parish men's committee after its conference with Bishop James A.

Griffin. The statement of Bishop Griffin that lie is disposed to leave to the pastor ami people the question of the continuance of St. Patrick's, made to the committee following a conference with the prelate, sets at rest the many reports that St. Patrick's parish scat would be transferred to Milton, and that ultimately the property ac ifth and Central would be abandoned at church and school, and possibly would be diverted to other uses. The people of St.

Patrick's havp nchlcved an out- itwiding record in phcing their parish on firm financial standing, under the leadership of tacir beloved paiior, and that decision of Bishop Griffin in acceding to their wishes may be viewed as a reward for Joyilty to and diocese. April 28, 1897 It was cstmated that more thnn 50 persons drowned when a wall of water, six feet high and a mile wide, swept down Cottonwood valley to engulf Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. Houses were crushed, stores inundated, and hundreds of residents of the area had taken hasty refuge in trees: Alton felt effects of the general rains over the mid-west, and with an all- day deluge, the Mississippi here began a new upturn. Reports from upstream ports caused fear of a damaging flood. Marriage of Miss Flora Olthoff to Charles C.

Esslinger, Kushvllle shoe deoler, was solemnized at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Mary Olthoff, on East Fourth, where the Rev. Charles Heidel read the ceremony. The bride, for a number of years, had been a clerk In the H. F.

Lehno dry goods store. Justin J. McCarthy and Miss Elizabeth R. Long of St. Louis were united in marriage at St.

Patrick's Church. The bride was a sister of Mrs. Richard Kennedy and had been visiting several weeks at her home here. Cliarles Bcall, was learning to ride a bicycle, and to friends he met on the way to work he explained "mahogany eye" us the result of collision of his wheel with fire plug on tho first evening he tried it out. Ellet Dorsey, son of E.

M. Dorsey, had been presented with silver watch, 90 years old, by his grandfather, Dr. E. C. Eliot of Bunker Hill.

The watch, which still kept good time, had been worn originally by Dr. Ellet's father. Wesley Beall suffered a head Injury when struck by a falling box at the Beall Bros, shops. August Schubert of Brighton purchased the machinery of Alton Cracker Baking Co. and was moving it into the Job block on East Second, where he planned to open bakery.

Spaldini; Club members gave an evening party, nnd favors were awarded to the Misses Flynn, Anna, Carrie, nnri Julia Long, and to James Byrne, Henry Hell, and Charles Schmllt. Mrs. S. J. Duncan and Mrs.

O. S. Stowell went to East St. Louis to attend the convention of the Foreign Mission Society of Alton Presbytery. Judge Irwln of Edwardsville, Republican candidate for the circuit Judsc- nomination, spent the day here nnd announced his Alton delegates to the district convention as John A.

Cousk-y, Robert Curdle, J. H. Yagor, E. A. Burke, W.

T. Norton, H. S. Baker, Richard Galbnlly, and George H. Hewitt.

Albert, the 18-year-old son of J. M. Dwlggins of Missouri Point, succumbed to pneumonia, Funeral rites of Joseph Haley were held In the Cathedral where the Rev. Father E. L.

read requiem mass. Pallbearers were Edward Conley, Allen Kels- 'or, Joseph and John Hartntann, Honry and Terrence Reedy. Dennis While, 3G, flint glassblow- or, died after extended illnoss ni his home, 1013 Liberty, Harrison Ammoll, 40, glassblower, succumbed to pneumonia at his place of residence, 1300 East Second, His widow was to tnko the body to Ellen- vllle, N. Y. for Interment.

George i'helan was called to Jacksonville by death of his sister. Malloarrler Albert Young was in St. Louis because of tho death of his brother, Ben C. Young, i'O. E.

C. Muck had the job of raising the roof of the poslofflce (Laura) building well underway, and Contractor was shortly to start erecting the additional story under his contract with Huntlngton Smith of St. LouLs. The Alton board of highway met and organized. Cerhnrd Hempken was named urer.

tiud Thomtts Cowling and James Thrush, the overseers of roads. Lawrence's Plan: WorkHalf-HourDay Without Extra Pay By LAWUENCB WASHINGTON, April 28. There's a sequel to the Newbury port plan If the country really wants to see price reductions tha arc substantial. The plan In Newburyport Is evl denlly for the merchants to absorb some of the losses on the good they bought at higher prices and to induce consumers to buy. Something even more advnntag eous would be for the sacrifices to be spread throughout the entire economic structure so as to avoid a "recession." The simplest plan therefore, would be for everyon to agree to work an extra half hour a day without extra pay.

This is infinitely better than wage reduction later, and It may prevent the unemployment tha cflii result when prices are too high and consumers refuse to buy goods on the shelves. Most of the predictions of $ion" have been based on the the ory that present prices would en counter consumer resistance, in ventories would accumulate, pro riuction would bo curtailed and lay offs of workers would be inevitable Bui if there is increase in out put per man, the unit costs of pm duclion go down and prices can then be reduced. If everybody In the factories worked an extra half-hour withou pay, the productivity of the nation would increase by about six percent. This means that approximately $6,500,000,000 worth of labor would be contributed to the national welfare and price reductions, could readily be made, because merchants would be assured lower prices for their next purchases from wholesalers and ducers. The contribution of an extra half-hour of work would not restore productivity to what it shoult -be if national trends are observed It would merely bring back the level which prevailed in 1945, foi economists realize that workers, have diminished their efficiency and there has been on tho job" despite.

the Increases in wages. In some instances, labor unions by one means or another refuse to permit individual workers to give a full day's work and thus they really regulate production, the theory being that this will bring about the absorption of any unemployed. Unfortunately, it works the other way and it brings about more unemployment. The normal trend of productivity in America has been forced downward in recent years. The prosperity and wealth of the United States have been built up by a gradual Increase in output per man hour over the decades of history.

In receni years, the trend has been reversec ind today the figures show that something-for-nothing philoso- )hy has prevailed. The slogan of unions has been "more pay foi ess work," This is basically the cause of the distortions In the economic system which are ng a "recession." The danger in the present trend that prices will be forced higher and higher by demands for increas- wages without corresponding in- irease in output per man hour, The Newburyport plan has pos- ilbiliiies in principle. Thus, wher- psychological pressure on hose who can afford reductions in price is exerted, the result Is bene- icial, but where prices are now at nonprofit level or at a nar- margin above cost, the price tructure can hardly be revised lownward unless there Is assurance if cuts by wholesalers and produces for the next supply of goods. It could conceivably happen, if he public Is Induced to participate a buying spree, that consumer ieeds for articles hitherto unavail- ble would be satisfied for the time ielng and a long lull in buying would result. The principle of urging lower rices Is sound 1 provided the sacrl- ices are not to be forced upon pro- ucers alone, without relief from he unreasonable wage demands hlch enter so largely in cost of reduction.

The average employer rightly oes not want to reduce wages ex- ept as a last resort, when it Is a latter of staying solvent and keep- ng in business. To avoid many fall- res and consequent unemployment, an increase in output per man nd a reduction of unit costs is the I nost effective way to avoid reces- ears ago. SIDE GLANCES By Qalbrallh COM. 1M7 tV NU SCTVICf, INC. T.

M. RtO. U. PAT. "That client is awfully hard to convince that a picture of a pretty girl will sell ax handles The Daily WASHINGTON MERRY GO ROUND By Drew Ptueson Some Quotations About OP A Authors Would Like to Forget WASHINGTON, April 28.

Quotes which some people like to forget: Senator Wherrj (Neb. June Bowie has send that if price controls wer eliminated, the price of meat woul go up 50 percent, trying to scare -us, Mr. Bowles i My predictioi is that without price control mea will cost less than today." (Mea is now up 60 percent). Senator Taft (Ohio July 1 President's figures on pos sible increases are a wild guess an for the most part dead wrong." Senator Moore Rep. Jun is there evidenc to support the claim that termina tion of OPA would result in run away prices," Congressman Miller (Neb.

Rep May agency (OPA) ha put out so much propaganda an false statements that the peopl no longer heed their cry of 'wolf wolf!" Congressman Schwabe (Okla June would an other Increase hurt? Not even close to the dire predictions Bowles, WlnchelU Pearson et The longer OPA continues to op erate the worse the inflation is likely to become." Senator O'Daniel (Texas Dem. June 27) "The OPA grinds the poor people of America clown and makes slaves of them." Congressman Hoffman (Mich June and its operator Chester Bowles are responsible in part for the fact that the cost of living has gone up." Nat-tonal Association of Manufacturers (June, OPA is permanently discontinued, the pro- iuction of goods will mount rapidly and prices will quickly adjust themselves to levels that consumers are willing to pay Prices will be fair and reasonable to all." Midwife Mark Clark Gen. Mark Clark, former U. S. iion and bring prices down.

It be accomplished, as a mater of fact, without that extra half' hour of free work. It could be achieved merely by putting a little more zest and a little more energy iehind each hour's work so that he day's total would be something ike it used to be, no less than two TOONERVILLE POLKS By FonUine commander in Austria, has been chafing at delays In Moscow. He wants to get back to the USA to celebrate his birthday, May 1, with his mother, then go on to his new military post, the Presidio, San Francisco. When a diplomat friend gibed him about the long treaty delay which kept him in Moscow, Clark replied: "Not only am I going to miss the boat, but I have bad nevs from Vienna. You remember my cocker spaniel, Pai? He's nine years old.

And remember my wirehaired terrer, Snooty? She's- nine months old. Well, the news Is that Snooty is going to have puppies by Pal. And though I fail to be midwife to an Austrian treaty In Moscow, I'll be midwife to a litter of mongrel pups on the high seas en route home." Palestine Veto In the past 28 years every American president, from Woodrow Wilson to Harry Truman, has declared for a Jewish homeland. So have both political parties at almost every national convention. Yet in those 28 years, either the British Foreign Office or career diplomats In our State Department who ride on the tail of the British kite always have managed to block the announced intention of American policy.

Today in New York a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly convenes to try once again to chart a Palestine policy and carry that policy out. The hopes and fears of 200,000 Jewish refugees are wrapped up in these debates. For them, the war began in 1933 when Hitler first came into power. It did not end when Hitler was killed in a Berlin basement 1945. They have no homes and the war is still on.

So they will be watching every move of the 55 delegates as they thresh out the problem of Palestine New York. Unfortunately, however, most of these delegates will be playing with a stacked deck. The cards were marked even before they set sail for the conference. The British, chiefly, concerned, have made it clear that they re- ierve the right of veto. If the conference doesn't hand down the decision, they can refuse to accept it.

However, the chances are the decision will be right for he commission of nvestlgatlon. There have been nany such commissions, but never before haa No. 10 Downing Street adopted the findings of a Palestin- un commission. It is not likely to do so now. NOTE A new commission to investigate Palestine will play right Into Russian hands.

Knowing that both Jews and Arabs want an immediate solution, the Russians say they are against delay, want the question solved now. Real fact is that if the Russian bluff were called by a decision now they would decide with the Arabs. ConircMlpitiU Shrinking Freshman Senator Herbert O'Conor of Maryland Is still hang, qg onto hlg seat by an eyeloih, ending his election recount. But leanwhlle O'Conor has ssen to it hat posterity won't lose out on the Igh spots of hla career-even If later has lo leave the Senate. O'Conor the longest bio.

raphy (sometimes called "brag, of any lenntw or entatlve In the congressional dl- ectory. It runs 63 written by tfce himself. Thli by five OOP man James Van 2andt Pennsyl vania, who also thinks lot himself. puts lo shame such other shrinking violets as: Rep. "Silent John" Rankin.

of Mississippi (35 lines)! Senator Ray mond Baldwin of Connecticut (39 lines); Rep. William Stlgler of Oklahoma (35 lines), and Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois, dean of the House (34 lines). Freshman O'Conor Is not as realistic as 0OP Senator Bll Langer of North Dakota, who among his various attainments that he once went to jail, Langer's biographical sketch in the congressional directory states that he Is the "only person ever to be arrested in an English-speaking country for filing an affidavit of prejudice against a judge." O'Conor's self-composed biography contains such self-effacing gems as: Youngest state's attorney ever to be elected in Baltimore City. Reelected (state's attorney) by the largest majority ever received by a candidate for public office In Baltimore City.

Elected attorney-general (of Maryland) in 1934, also by a record- breaking majority. But the clincher In O'Conor's self-penned opus concerns the various "honors" showered on him while a member of the national governors' conference when the senator modestly recalls that his "patriotic and faithful service, which has been of such benefit to the governors of all the states and to the nation" won him a resolution of appreciation from the governors of various states. NOTE: Shortest Senate biography in the directory is that of California's Sheridan than five lines. Seven House members go 'too far and appear afraid to tell their constituents anything about themselves. Those who confine their biographical sketches line, stating their name, party and home town are: Re-.

publicans Fred Crawford of Michigan, George Macklnnon of Dewey Short of Missouri, and Democrats Stephen Pace of Georgia, Edward Hart of New Jersey, Joseph Pfeifer of New York and Andrew Somers of New York. (Copyright, 1947, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Answers To Questions Mail Inquiries to Information Bureau, Haskin Service, 316 Eye St, N. Washington, D. Enclose 3 cants for return postage. Which Is the largest bank In the world? T.

A. R. A. This distinction is now claimed by the Bank of America which tops the Chase National and National City Banks. It has over 500 branches and more deposits than any other bank in the world.

Q. Was Old Vic originally the name of a theater? N. T. A. Yes.

It was built in 1817 as the Coburg Theater in London and rechristened Victoria Theater, in 1833. Q. Please define the term "act of God" in reference to insurance. W. R.

A. An "act of God" is any accident or happening which is the result ol natural causes that no reasonable foresight or care could have prevented. Generally, natural forces beyond man's control, such as earthquakes, windstorms, tornadoes, come under this heading. Q. Are there many pure-blooded Negroes in the United States? P.

P. A. The Negro Handbook says It Is the general belief that a scant few Negroes in the United States have no other than Negro or African blood. Q. How is Secretary of State George C.

Marshall related to Chief Justice John Marshall? W. R. A. Current Biography says that he is related to the great American jurist through one of his forebears, the Reverend William Marshall, an uncle of the Chief Justice. Q.

How does aviation now runk -an 0 A The ped from War 11 to not mean industry i not that It was larger than i nv peace. any btssador? between rank of embassies The pure metal. and M. A. The Department oil ture says that as 52.9 percent of the fan, the United States wer, with electricity.

A sample census made In i 28 percent of the farm I running water systems. Q- For how many a business firm keep wfl WPB records? 0 A. Office of Price tion records should be bfl one year after the arlidtl empt from price Production records should i for two years according ftf ties Regulation No. 1 be specific statutes In i with some phases of WITH tion would requlni to be kept longer. What metal most heat to melt? MjTa A.

Tungsten is the quiring the most heat tot Q. When did the Senate first meet in thtltl chambers? E. Y. A. The present House was occupied for legislatS, poses on December 16, ill the Senate Chamber on ji" 1859.

The House had met in what was to ary. Hall, and the Senile chamber which later Supreme Court. Q. How many 1921 pieces were have a covered and an Indian on ffieoi 1 A. The commei dollar was authorized on 1926.

It is know as DM') Trail fifty-cent amount minted to Deaf 19.44 was $132,209,50,, Q. How deep Is thl i per mine? M. D. A. The Bureau of that according to the I able information on the deepest copper Suincy mine at Michigan.

The underj ings of that mine i cal depth of 6,100 feet li. Q. Is a party call one has been a week-endp a friend's home? H. A. If one's hostess i distance, a note should her not later than.a dayi visit is ended.

Flowers, a book are often If hostess and guest 1 same place, a call should I within a week. Q. Why was planted eastward? A. According to Bible A the Hebrew! other Orientals, the east' determining point of tie probably because It was of sunrise. The Hebrew point of the rising sun' determined direction; east was the front by the Hebrew word, 2:8.

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