The North Adams Transcript from North Adams, Massachusetts • Page 6

SIX J'HE NORTH A A MASSACHUSETTS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1949. SJje atf Btemg I weekday a from the Transcript Building, BauVc North Adams. Massachusetts, by the. TBAXSCIUPT PUBI.ISJIJNG ASSOCIATION A Massachusetts Trust A. HAKDMAN.

Publisher and Trustee Delivered by carrier at 30c a Mail rates $1.00 per month. Victor Reisel Even i i i Is Folksy Down South THAT'S WHAT I LOVE about i thc South. Everything moves soj peacefully. Everybody's so folksy. The Cold War af Home Even the toughest union -I limit- not record of sin 'iitc in liic ncj-i trcrM.

lntl this I tin kn.v. Ih'it I rierer so wean rj.v to UrtpiFc a li-tunse poor. ic igwant or n-as Jw.v A. ANnEEW. Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice, North Adams, Mass, whom I've been watching here at i-hcir quiet strategy sessions, go bland.

They use only the homiest techniques. "Howdy, Deacon." can be greeting someone from liis union headquarters, for example, as well as from his church. That's because the CIO chiefs. As unobtrusively as possible 1 Thc vast potential benefits of. who will have S2.500.000 for their and without a word of a project have been appar- 1949 invasion of the South have 1 for some time now had church tion.

Mayor Bowes has swept for more than a quaHe, of a dlrecting sta 0 oolm of the city's major problems un-; century, ever since it was first ci carnpa i gns anc heading up der the rug. 'proposed by thc outstanding city textile locals. Some deacons even! We doubt that they'll stay; planner of his day, John Nolan, jare business agents. very long. They arc too lin-More than that, the urgent need TODAY'S EDITORIAL Under fhe Rug poitant.

i for such a project has grown THIS APPROACH, so different from Northern techniques is fascinating to watch. Especially the --which. These problems are through with the times, as Mr. Nolan saw traffic congestion and room for that it would. Automobile traffic desirable new business and com-; and its attendant street conges- sta rting with this past week-end rncrcial- and taxable const rue-i tion has multiplied many times, i will send 6.000 volunteer organ- tj on The city's business and commrr- izers fanning through thc south "AithnntrV, tenantp and distinct cial life has expanded to and be- om the Potomac lo the Rio Although sepal ate anu Grande, in an attempt to sign UD the two problems are closely re- ncl he full limits of present ac-1 lhousnritls of members each fated by the fact that solu-1 commodations.

The taxable value I right in own homes, tion ot'both rests in a single! of old property has steadily de- A fcnv bc ol this was new street lancing i creased, particularly in this written, I watched Virginia vol- wost through thej' a have zoomed with no ac-j" i organizing project-- a from east to low-value, blighted area north of Center street. Last year, under fhe prodding of public opinion and his own dc-! sire for a proper rtv to help share the added i contingent; companying increase in taxable (chiefs being briefed. The brightest CIO members in plants already unionized will to make the rounds each Last year it seemed almost a their home towns, site for the the city was on the verge They'll drop in on their neigh- group of -municipal buildings he a definite, frontal attack lust to gossip. They'll hike Hlp these problems. The council, ad- has envisioned for the ciH.

me mayor put this project high on mlttedly, was still geeing and over to filins with the his 'list of improvements schedul- but the mayor did re- stations, just to mix Thov'll stand around gabbnig at the a gates. They'll sit with the towns- under the capital outlav plan, specific action, listed the folk at local grocery and general all the time, they'll a to those people whom ac-i Project for accomplishment in store, commishment during this year of 11949 and was instructed by the. ATM council to retain an experienced thcy ve or ycars to provide needed i expert opinion and advice. FINALLY THE VOLUNTEERS Now after such heartening i i will ask their friends 1o sign up. dications of courage and awaken-j And some of the CIO's regular the whole idea But his recommendations for a city planner capital outlay budget con- lain no mention of extending, Union street, or widening Center street or otherwise making a i vision brave and decisive effort lo free pears to have once more been North Adams from the strait-; summarily pushed aside; swept lacketthat has for too many under thc rug where-perhaps- years hampered and choked ex-jno one will look for it right pansion and progress.

Nor will away. anv such Dlan be found in. the I Our feeling, however, still capital outlay schedule for 1950, optimistic. We feel that the citi- 1953. 1952, 1953 or 1954 that the zens of North Adams still prefer progress to stagnation, even if Communication Onesided Impression Editor of (lie Transcript: Life magazine has clone much harm to Williams college in the choice of pictures which appear in the Jan.

24 issue of the magazine. Pictures speak louder than wile dQes all Qf her own house teaching wherever it was to be found, even among those without private incomes. -And the colleges were forced to campaign for more funds to procure good teachers. average college professor's words, and Life has broadcast all over the United States and work, as as the family lauri- drv. i A picture of the barracks abroad in this issue an entire- Grs aM their families ly one-sided pictorial impression do their own and of the life and spirit of Williams.

washing I-know whereof I speak. My hus-1 havfi he to ballmc band, who is retired, taught fg icture A picture of Dean mathematics at the college for 411 Rob ert Brooks building his own years, and for 30 years we lived hands wouW in an old New England nouse, ba ance the owned by the college, directly across the street from the pala- brilliantly illuminated Life 'Fra-' tial and fraternity magazine houses which has captioncd, than the published picture of the faculty party square dance given at his home. Williams has many fine sports. fact was ignored by Life. ilicli.

1 ao ternity Row on Mam Street. Williams swimming My family was closely asso- fl influence dated, with Williams at its in- Williams ception. My great, great, great grandfather, the Rev. Daniel Collins, pastor of the First Congregational church in Lanesboro for nearly 60 years, (1763-1822), was influential as a trustee of the Free School, which was the forerunner of Williams college, and over the boys here at Williams as any professor on the faculty. Bob Muir's fine influence is in no way depleted because he does not drink, even in this age of general intoxication.

Life magazine's vivid pictorial impression of wealth and ease and leisure and cocktail parties became one of its first trustees wm nQt go dmvn wdl th many the conservative alumni who on Aug. 6, His grandson, I are being importuned for con- Wilham Augustus Porter was the i wnliarns drive first man to occupy he chair for funds It is most unfortunate, of "Rhetoric and Moral Philoso-; go men of Weals find phy." established 182, dedicated lives have given Life's beautiful pictorial us- ite sei -vices to Williams, trations give the impression that e)oso Qf Lifes Williams a play-boy college: were pictured three famous Williams men who were important Americans. James A. Garfield, share tractive life is spent in shaking cocktails, and throwing cocktail parties in an atmosphere of wealth and leisure, with cocktail bars part of the ordinary foun- Mark Hopkins and William Cui- len Bryant. These men were not play boys, nor did they have to.

hard liquor every day in order to "get m. VJ men had first room, where Williams students hand conlact with the stea rn re- entertain their professors. Qf nfe Nor did they view The pink elephant in front wUh withe nng sophistication any the Zeta Psi house has connota-, Qf the common tasks of iif tions which definitely contribute; Mark Hopkins was a man of heightening the impression dedicated life nd nigh ideals. dation equipment of the their Uves i student's average An Qf theg i students to I professional Southern staff of 2001 skilled organizers will drop i town from regional headquarters, or Southern drive headquarters Atlanta--and try to unionize i the entire local mill. If it all sounds to folksy, just I remember that this technique.

with Northern modifications, was Truman Civil Rights Stand Brings Troubles that Williams consists almost ex- wj)liam ullen Bryant was a clusively of a drinking crowd. bQV becau of his lack The vivid pictorial impression of did not graduate from broadcast by Life of the wmiams James A Garfield was life of Wilb ams Uegc hree i a poor boy whose mother, Eliza whose settmgs deplct the ex- Gai field was left a widow quisitely appointed interior of one with four un der 11 years ate planned to give thorough I of thc mos a a ld when James the youngesT! and extended conlderation to on the cam us was but two and a half years old. face alone and unaided, and dent Truman sent orders to Ma- 1 make ends meet at Williams col-, wjth almost no resources the Prn i raising of her little brood on her lvins room of I. ro i ai-m on the crude frontiers of that the mavor submitted to the council thg, ginning. strategy is no newcomer to thc! 64-year old a South.

Tuesday night. The only mention many of their elected of it nou- is in the list of desir-j lives still lack the daring, courage able but vague and shadowy pro- and vision to not only make but jects listed as possibilities some- carry out great plans for time in the far, indefinite North Adams of. tomorrow. 25 Years Ago Former President Wilson Died; Once Planted Tree in Williarnstown Adams residents learned Wooolcn mills of Stottsville, N. Y.

i tjmate friend. Biitner operates Mr. Boycr. a former resident of i ou Atlanta and came here this city, was the son of Mr. and, us launch the roving volun- Ijority Leader Lucas and his as sistant, Senator Francis J.

Myers JMSLCLIIL, i i i i i a u. i i i a i i i TRUMAN'S AD-; of course, expect it to work out I of Pennsylvania, that this pro- wrS! th 1NU1 I I i used to organize Philip Murray's of thc extreme civil with mathematical exactness.) gram be scrapped. They obeyed powerful steelworkers program Hnd philosophy Negroes would move from almost obsequiously, back in the thirties in the Southern states as follows: From I by Senator Hubert Alabama, 700,000: Arkansas, i ALTHOUGH CHAIRMAN EL-! ege professor is a poor man. Sel- RICHMOND IS JUST thc 1 D. THOMAS of the Senate dom does he make his "pile" be-: iceg iven to williams by men of his class in creative writing, wiuiams is made fi ner qual- an accurate picture of the aver-; i than plctured irl ife During the average 37 years of life here at wjl col-: 'ministration protests has lifted lid on a Pandora's i7' 2 00 nI is a c0 0 0 00 Iar Labor committee had openly fore entering i a 2 000 Mlss 1 S5 hearings extending through fession.

Most oi i Bittner, was well suited to do the briefing here in town. He knows thc South--for j'ears, as West Virginia leader of 110,000 coal diggers hc kept John Lewis' miners' union alive in thc breadless days of 1930. Now Phil Murray's most Tern Tenne uuu, that former President Woodrow Wilson had died in his sleep in Here are a few developments irgmia, 0 9d, prcvancator hc admitted that he thc teaching pro- enter their profes- to terminate sion as soon as they leave grau- Not a clever highest moral, mental, and calibre, came to WilKamstown uncler way or in the offing that I Other states would h.ive the his mintl i i i i i i I i i Of Colored DGO- his on Capotol hill: leaders following i of colored peo 'pie: California, 566.000: Colorado, had been "persuaded" to change enjoys teaching it is probably as rewarding a profession in in- ate school. Few of them enjoy an jd James Phinney Baxter inherited competency. But if one 1.

Only a few days after the! Georgia legislature formally commended him and Senator: tJl Walter F. George for their fight' 1100,000: Connecticut, Illi- Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Win- Although Majority Leader Lucas voted for the T-H act, and still favors retention of its main in college. At that -c of the instruction being carried on by profes- tangible values, as one can sorg whQ were getting ess than choose. The majority of those 0()0 a vear There was but one desire to have a family of two px 0 essor and in each depart- handful of Washington, "thus finding in eternity a haven from thc storms and avenue. sorrows of a troubled world." He had made three visits to Williams- Mrs.

Joseph Boyer of town and during one planted From Richmond Richard B. Russell in- swing South again to set up these briefing sessions in 11 Nebraska, New Jersey, Paul Brumm of Adams, looms a cs Then back to Atlanta-fixer at the Berkshire Cotton tree in IJ i JJJC1JJ I 1 I the vard of Francis B. Manufacturing company plant Sayre. whose wife was Miss Jessie Wilson. for more than 24 years, resigned.

President Mark Rzonca of Ad- and the headline-making phase of the CIO's Operation Dixie is on. troduced a measure as revolution- 1 Pennsylvania. 519.000; I White House was at first willing ary as Abranam Lincoln pie- Washington Wisconsin, to acce Pt a compromise calling Civil war idea of deporting all 1 cnn nnn ill i 4 OUi-UUD. provisions, hc fell in line with or three children Tins propensity Mr. Truman's wishes.

Hc agreed a been a contributing factor in fessor5 were getting but S3, a a I 0 a r'. James Lawrenve Kel- colleges lack the: i emjnent scientist in nis i field, had been bargained back to to'back the more elaborate pro-i forcing many to abandon the program, 'fession, since lo New Olno; Similarly, with Negroes in thc United States to; Liberia. for construction of 500,000 or i 2. EXTREME ADVOCATES 600,000 low-cost units in i ORGANIZED LABOR has won years, despite Mr. Truman's i i initial skirmishes with the I augural demand for 1,050,000.

But was a period in which Williams, as well as many other THIS I A I of the of the White House demand I White House over thc kind of when thc labor bosses insisted on Capt Robert I. Boland. Lieut ams, Vice President Paul Tzpacz, South js no mere him. The'federal'aid to schools, hospitals rioio DeSandrcw and Lieut. Secretary Louis Slomcz of CIO( to put nectls new and housing, as well as sly ene- nf satonic and Treasurer Stanley rr a hl iic i mies of these alleged "socialistic" labor and housing legislation the larger number, he bowed to Arigio Clavton L.

Mausert of Company K. "National Guard, attended a meeting ot the officers of the I the 104th regiment at Springfield Treasurer Stanley Nowack of Adams represented the Berkshire branch of the Polish National Alliance convention in Pittsfield. Mrs. Gertrude Torrey. i of Percy C.

Torrey of 17 members. Many of its unions, built around war industries -have I which President Truman will try! i demands, "socialistic" force rough Congress. possessed of at least a developments, will propose at the (m were modest private income, or had married one. During that period, if a "We must keep our pledges, young man without a private in- When it appeared that Capitcl explained President Truman. his neck out" and $2,700.

It was not until 1917 that thc financial situation in which the college professors found themselves during World War 1. to be alleviated by some hill leaders, especially in the sen-j Laura Harwood Shepard Williarnstown Modern Etiquette Rosario J. Boyer, who for the past four years had been in the employ of the Appleyard mills fn Bound Brook, as a de- worth street, Wilharnstown, died signer, resigned to accept a her home, following a long ill- Jar position with the Atlantic)ness. Just Folks Bda YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW When of fish I've landed none, "You'd have caught a string," they say. "If out fishing you had gone Yesterday.

And tomorrow--'tis ray fate To be always far away. i Day too soon and day too a Yesterday. been hard hit. some almost arciopportune moment that there skeletonized. Because thev were shall be no segregation in any- handy, the big Northern cities such project financed in were'the first to feel 1he in part by federal funds.

of CIO's flying squadrons, Despite thc desire of Chicago, in 1937. politicians cater to the tre-1 The South was virtually colored vote in the nored by these intense young city, the suggestion of a CIO men who had their eyes on I non-segregation clause in a pub. we're not allowed to look at-- already has its own citizens, ccr-1 Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Akron, lie housing bill there has held up i thc thing that's kept jn the secret tificd as safe and screened for and led to fierce poli- ipockbts of the Atomic Energ entered, the profession of teaching, he was "just asking for it." I And the colleges at that period Roberta Ltf Q. When setting lab e.

The Split Atom Invades Our Lives I did not care too much about fill-1 should thc prongs of the forks i their ranks with that type point or people. This policy worked! A. TlT" a while, but when it began upward. Thev should always point rnanv Q- Should the knife, fork, or THE SPLIT ATOM-the thing, subattributes of sovereignty. It fc seen that it led man time Toledo, and the Michigan auto cities.

Now below they seek new frontiers the Mason-Dixon line down where many a big plant Yesterday--tomorrow so; Dav to come; day slipped away. has shifted from north just as 1 he crowded the Chance-' factory pulled passage; deal exchanges. Oddly enough, more and more the civil righters shy away from invading our lives, supporting a far-reaching prin-' ciple of non-segregation. loj'alty. ALTHOUGH SERIOUS THIS NEW WORLD-WITHIN- is not a small one.

GOVERNOR DEWEY ASKS'The atomic energy commission's for an appropriation of $6,900 to! building program is, in the word- a train health officers and'ing of its own report, "the grcat- to loosing good teachers, as well' spoon always be placed on the to hiring poor teachers, i plate after using? (though often very charming! A. Yes, always, with the men), the policy necessity! handle resting on the edge of the to be abandoned in favor of good' plate, never on the table. "Smooth the lake and skies were, clear. i Bass were plenty in the bay. Fishing--serving, all I Know You'd have caught the limit here Is today.

studious Senator Russell may have spoken with a Southern Yesterday." I Copyriplit, Vaught aircraft. up stakes and machinery in Bridgeport and moved Dallas. Now they figure a of 6,000,000 Southern work- a northern, western and ers. at least 3,000.000 are a i i western states show their to be unionied.z i sanitary engineer? "in the prob-iest single construction program Icms of radioactivity as in American peace-time history." "si lmcasu ff preparedness." Thus ie oi-aek a when hc gcd part of the world wh.ch lies outside Atomic Energy com- I mission tries to keep up with The Neighbors Bv George a SO THE CIO is taxing its members to raise some Sl.200,000 the racial problem by absorbing about 4,000.000 of the 9,000,000 Negroes who now live in the eleven year. And the Textile union is Southern commonwealths.

side it, and inside the atomic energy commissions of other lands. The danger leaks out, even if the secret doesn't. It's a divided world we live in, one part spend- i asking for 53 a man from i He noted first that 1hc people ing (and as much more 1400.000 followers. For the dollar- in states with a small colored perhaps in foreign lands) to CIO this is a deep plunge, population arc far more "liberal break the atom, and another But it: has to be made carefully. So carefully in fact that Bittner has forbidden thc CIO and aggressive" in their off orts I spending $6,900 to keep the proto change the "pattern of cess from hurting anybody.

which prevails below the Mason THE ATOMIC ENERGY com- the white population. very valuable in cancer treat- unions to swing into Southern and Dixon line. They do not: have politics--to make isure that the I to face the problems, he continu- mission announces the discovery CIO drive doesn't become involv-jed, which confront people where of a cheap substitute for radium ed in partisan feuds. the Negroes outnumber or 60--which promises to You caruwell imagine; how this enforced neutrality must: frustrate some of the politically itchy young CIO directors. But Bittner is taking no chances.

Much of thc continued power and influence of all CIO depends on the new strength he seeks in 1hc South. They'll kerp it folksy. Homes For Americans Therefore, he proposes crea- ment. This, of course, will come tion of a Volunteer Racial Re- to our doctors like a gift from a location commission, which shall mysterious uncle; they will know trv to redistribute white and i little about the process that has black population. Negroes leav- 1 produced it, or about what else the South for other sections, I mn bc coming.

It is a present N. Adams Skies Thursday, February 3rd Sunrise 7.03 a. m. Sunset 5.0S p. m.

Moonset 10.44 p. m. First Quarter Feb. 6th. Prominent Stars: Sirius (sets liis bill provides, must be assur- of a better job and improved! Hiving conditions.

Corporations which hire them jat higher pay than they had received before emigration would be entitled to borrow $10,000 for each employee from the federal government. other world within SENATOR BRIEN McMAHON, who is virtually the father of the atomic energy commission, is beginning to chafe in his own way at some of the implications of atomic secrecy. Without, attacking the commission in any way, just wondering aloud, he points out that if there were less secrecy, if the world knew just how strong we were atomically, it might be less inclined to run thc risk of war. He says it is a little hard to ask the nations of the to give up of their sovereignty for the purpose of atomic control, unless they know just how many bombs can be made, and just what this elemental force means." Mr. McMahon finds that secrecy does not of itself provide security--the policy of secrecy involves taking a calculated risk that war might break out because of mankind's sheer ignorance of the forces that can ed admittance.

Again one has that same strong feeling about how oddly divided is the world we live now be employed. He himself has made-up his mind, he says; he admits it would be of help to IT IS ANNOUNCED that the Energy commission now jhas its own intelligence service, HERE IS THE SORT of migra- to take note of what other coun- tion, as well as the changes in the tries are doing about the atom-social, economic and political and that it also has its own de- "You can't get. anywhere In this office. I've been late every morning 11 p. irises 6.19 2.06" a.

-Antares (rises 3.53 structure of thc U. which Sen- fense force, complete ar- a. m. Visible Planets: Saturn (rises later Russell envisages if the'mored vehicles and planes. It is an enemy to know our bomb production figures.

But he also feels that we usually make the most A Newsfeatures) I Here's a big little house with': seven rooms and two baths. The five rooms on the first floor can be finished first leaving the attic! progress when we have "the max- for -f expansion. Although imum degree of information. the is ol economical rec- itangular shape, a rambling fa- IT'S A SERIOUS, troubled speech. I'd like to see someone answer it, if anyone can.

We're not making the world as we know it safe. We're producing a new world, instead, strange, distorted, this and the still doesn't know I work here!" a. white and black races were equit-i becoming a little like a world divided, intellectually Balkam'zed, ably distributed under his pro-jvmto itself, and it is even, of ne-jalmost unrecognizable. posed legislation. i.He does not, cessity, tiiking on some of thej Copyi-ifflit, 1949 cade is achieved with garage and breezeway porch.

This is Plan 1341 by McMurray Chirgotis, architects, 968 Stuyvesant avenue. Union, N. J. It covers an area) a of 1,006 square feet. The archi-i tects suggest an asphalt shingle roof for economy and air conditioned heating system.

FUTURE SECOND FLOOR,.