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1 1 i I i 'I '4 I- i --i ff- fc I i 1 1 1 :1 ij i 4 1 S' 1 'V i i i i i In 'yMsv iioria 1 Guy Gannett Publishing1' Co Friday Morning September I 23 1949 i The Russian View have to the United States I that1 Western Europlj has been converted (into at) American colony Jthat I Wal Street forced devaluation of currency in order to pick tip British industries at bargain prices More than that Moscov may have difficulty persuading anybody but the -Henry Wallaces that Its "simple for rinanclal troubles has- mrit "ending the! democracies' colossal and constantly increasing military expenditures and feverish preparations tor a new war on Wall street's -Id' 'in sensible people will note with derision that this argument falw before the fact that it is the limited States that is making the cdtpssal military expenditures and not Britain and that it Is the United States including "Wall Street that Muld suffer disaster Britain add 8 the other democracies go bankrupt that it is Russia which! prefei to butter -with a constantly In Ing force under arms of flv one-half million: men Perha should have expected this Russian twistlngLpf fact but hard tp get used: to even now i The It's no excuse fori a car-driver that the sun was In his eye he couldn't see the road ahead' In that situation his duty ls (stop his I too is the duty of a il in thickest fog "a dungeon of fog Yet rlt ls true that familiarity can reed contempt Seamen who live so nuch with fog may to have pertain disregard for it They actly shrug It you can't dp they may come to discoifn threat: a There Is too 1 a schedule tq be met There been we do not refer exhat its: teri! have this big on 1 1 1 hipping to the lies! Coast and ship Kht into he middle of ithe Country rhere their customers are Tha Missis-dippl and the Tennessee Rivers 1 are Savigable for their ships from here he tld He didn't go! so -far as to tell us he would avoid labor) organisation rherever starts up I Mills which left New England- tot the non-union South won found )out that wherever there la abor it will soon be organized into unions that it may have a collective voice to freak for itself! I' Jack HaU of the ILWU said another In-cresting thijig He said the (employing1 lass deliberktely kept ithlsi a two-crop ountry so they could have a Is said If a small portion of the agricul-: tural land mere put into cqra for beef they would not have to Import it at such high prices mat most of the poor people buy lit They keep 6 grip on the sonomy and) object to an equivalent labor trip I- i i ecoi grip 1 ANOTHER thing (Jack Hall cald: (The- 1 nployers maintain (a subtle color casta line They will not hire a white person fjor a manual Job No matter how stupid dr inefficient you are they will give you somethin nbn-manttal likel puahtog a I pencil The labor leaders here do not ad- ihit that th Communists have anything to do with the strike dr tho labor situs- tlon here (They don't admit Harry ridges is Communist I When sskod else ther could i construe his part in is Progressiva party -they say they are st In polities that the unions here did declare for the Progressive party I The unions -do not like 18 because the -iilltary allows the employers to hew-lpty mllltary warehouses jto store i the tops thst ire piled up because of the trike The) cane piraple are In a i bad ftz: the plxteepple people Just keep on canning and! storing One bf the newspaper editors told me (they) got so herd i up for newsprint In the early part of the strike' that he waa cut to eight pages- and ho advertising except classified Ao economy live that way They are getting in enough now by( barges i and In 1 driblets handled by the Territorial stevedores to keep going i But you go along the docks and a sad sight i One Llirline ship stands! therej been there lest MV ldlyi floating beside the l-J: I 'i our service mCn here seems Sergeant ion the plsnetthat I the Islands sa)d he hss his mily here fend has a three bedroom irtment outside the! gate! He likes it everything anybody could: want Jor lusement I "But tough on some of frse little I places like he'1 said We hgd lunch Iwlth two women air fjrce major! and they: like it There kre 3 Here yet i but iral Radford's they went them and hope on to Over at 1 Ad- get jUiem "Make Heat secretaries In the worlcl" said a commander who had hkd them the Pentagon Despite fhe loveliness everybody is conscious ofi the unease in the world We efe closer to Tokyo then to Washington miles" they said They Were hit one ley could again Aggressor is ag-essor whither Japan or Russia Thtfe'g warm ftf fear gnawing In this rose of be worm of Pacific I cord mpson I en masse as westerners have Starved ey did in the but- neither are ey likely) to bring preatj -American or ted palliatives did do much to restore will! again called attention to the fact that being the (world's creditor requires mere fundamental change of thought than this Nation) has accepted id made clear that no creditor can save client against his will Britain will havs I face the facta of life more realistically titan she his i id meanwhile thf West will muddle igh (flr it does) not because It can Its dilemmas to the satisfaction of all but because If Its parts 80 not hang together (aftjpr a fashion) they will certain-separately -i i 1 conference which week brought none It sug- lyjall ham Released By The Bell sndlcata IneJ Oiir FIlos i Bistbi 180 Yeard Ago Today Mohe Posqnaster General has established tree following post offices In this state: Piaggstaffl Somerset County- William BUtler potomaster Moose River Somerset- County Charles Thompson postmaster North I Shapleighj York 1 County Levi iring 5Q Years Company opened its -1 store fit Cor is fi torp launched by thajjBath Years kfo Todar itee College won another international ste A I team composed of two (Bates men andiofie from Cambrldga University a stand defeated another made up Of one tea men And two frpm Cambridge The driiate was held In Lewiston City HaU rr 4 i Hr' j' i lerized Greatest Hurricane Editor of -thePresS Her Eleven years ago this Wednesday Sept 21 the treat New England hurricane caused damage estimated by the New York Times at 4500000000 4 greater damage than is recorded In any other hurricane In' all history Five hundred and eighty-eight persons were drowned killed -or missing the Red1 Cross helped 13446 families 0 Ousts reached 182 mph In the main entrance of the Provldence-Blltmorp Hotel the water was six feet two inches deep The water was 13 feet) nine inches above afaggers mean high tide and two feet ness Vi inch) before now coming in with lpad of above the greatest previous New England lT 4 i-Sffaara nd too fast through tog To all Who Other facts of the hurflcane 1 have of ahljw big and little ler or slow to the engine-room botlj dap-tain and linglneer noting thatjaignal iif their respective logs bud then by-pre-arrangement 'the hp has kept' on at full! speed' to mate flier schedule The pressure Is very This chance-tiaklng is not to big ships of course and dfaggers of this tragedy should be a jsol mn August are tne numcane days Other facts of the great hurricane are: Buildings destroyed I 18731 Telephones out of service: 604000 I all this data Honolulu Sept Staejf 1 and dread- fill cliffs rise from the sea to make the island 1 are parjts of the Island which ar under cultivation and people live' there but that 1- is' a different 'part of the island The colony Is on a flat atrip of land at the foot of the cliffs sticking out Into the sea The cliffs come down to the sea Ion side Of this strip of land -The only way out la over one winding trail up the cliffs end there IS always a guard there I Boats some and there is a' little air strip But there is ho way out for the lepers Most I of them are Asiatics There are white doctors and nurses A great deal of re- search goes on into this most dreadful of skin diseases Some day we may know what causes it and what to do We can alleviate it even now These oriental skin diseases are something we do not have in our part of the world- Some) of our nnd ill the services came home with strange skin troubles-( There Is one prominent Washington physician who got something like that in China and they neve never been able to cure it though is hardly noticeable now An aif force plane took us on a trip over the Islands of this group We dew low over ths mountain 'fastnesses seeing hid- den waterfalls There are no rivers in the islands snow and rain la trapped in the mountains and brought down ih con- dults for Instance jto Hlckam Field 1 i The clouds hang -so low in the moun- tins that they have as mueh as ISO Inches of rain is year while on the coast- it runs to: 20 inches On isome of the iialands Johnstone- for instahee where we have an air strip weter has to be distilled snd they have it only certain hours day Our 'senator Smith is Interested in a bill be- fore the Senate to 'establish two -labm-a- tories one on the West Coast and one on the East to experiment with large scale distillation of water because our water table is getting low and some day big cities may have to depend ion distillation "Maine's got plenty 1 salt water to-distill" Senator Smith said hoping one jof the laboratories might be on the Maine Coast If Congress ever gets around-to the bill SENATOR Smith la wen known liere because she came out iwlth the navy during the wat and she really made a study of crowded housing conditions in (Hawaii! Senator Brewster too when the Senate had its! Pearl Harbor investigation ha waa the only one in All that big committee who had ever been to Pearl! 1 Dr Paul Wlthlng ton navy reserve doctor catae to see me one day His mother was Marietta Dennett 'Paul Klttery and Florence Paul of York Is his aunt He has lived here 46 years and loves it so that he: means to stay here always He had a1 harp answer whep 1 asked him about statehood "Taxation without represents- tlon isl hei said tersely As to -the Communists snd the strlkei he said he didn't care abotit people being Communists if they want to be but they Americans I when they are Communists He has a lot of sympathy for the purely labor aspects of the strike Governor Steinbeck said an interesting thing About possible consequence of the strike and the refinery strikes on tha Coast' Hs said they might st op 1 -'I On1 The ly Dorothy I A thesis of communism is that capital-lam engenders conflicts leading to war and prevents durable economic cooperation between non -Communist states i In the Tito affair we have seen that communism has its dilemmas i too and that universal collectivization of property does iot remove conflicts tween various areas within nlst sphere The Russian way dilemmas is simple It! is to cut off Ithe headq of the recalcitrants In the history of nations there -has been nothing quite like the Soviet's campaign openly calling for! the assassination of: tha head of an- other state But the feet that communism has! its dilemmas does not solve jthoee of the non-Communlat world The! abyu lp to which our relations with Britain have sunk over financial questions has been gleefully 6b-served by Communists who can truthfully remark "1 told you I The dilemma afflicts more than Angl American relations Though thej first session iof the Pan-European council at Strasbourg accomplished much) the debate Over the report of the economic commission was inconclusive Britons wished to limit convertibility of I currencies to the European Bloc while holding I controls against the dollar area) A British delegate described sterling is the traditional currency of the European area a view sharply opposed brothers (for Instance by the Belgian Roger who predicted dancer If the Bank off England "directly responsible i to the London should try to become master jof Europe via a freely-manipulated! currency without a metal base I Insisting that! a solution lay only In the free eon vertlbllity of European currencies against the dollar A ftet Is' still a tict ilthoughj distressing shd the tact is that none of the bold solutions proposed both in Strasbourg! and behind the scehes among them the idea of a common west-! era- currency would benefit all partners equally i I Though we now agtoe that It as to the Interest of (all Americans to hsVa within our own boundaries a unified economy with free Interstate I trade and one currency! this wee decided only by Civil war froth lhe outcome of which that rich industrial North profited Over thej South A currency uniontof America and Britain however It might work out In the long run would have the Immediate consequences of Britain I losing her financial sovereignty and enduring drastic deflation British securities tottering British foreign and domestic policy becoming suh-servlept and still the problem of how! to sell to the United States as much as Britain buys 1 would remain If a I currency union were accompanied by free trade and free movement of populations the British Isles might be reduced largely to I a museum and reeort-Mi super Northern New England' i I Now! this might be all to the good in the long tun but no government depending on an electorate could do it Politicians are never times elected on the promise of better a generation Hence Th4 unborn do not vote i Soviet Union decree measures It believes will bear fruit decades because it can I enforce its decrees But governments dependent on Uie poo-ular vote have to live from hand to mouth They are less likely to bring on Inevitable that Moscow ffoid some sharp things to the devaluation of the pound jud of the currencies jof 19 other' countries It waLs to be ex-s pected th it the Russians would jpoint V' smugly 1 the fact that their own ruble na survived the storm and stress of he postwar years and has been kqp at par value It was be ezpdc ed also that the Soviet Russian! would gloat overt the troubles! hat have descended (upon Britain and make the usual Insulting comparisons between the financial gtrejijrth of the Communist sys- teix axidl the democratic system' That would have made them a gopd deal of political capital for moist perippe Ignorant of high and intricate finance quite naturally might have beta impressed with the fact that the ruble Is still sound though by fiat lend that the whole sterling area of the democratic world is in more or teas financial chaos But Moscow may have gone tod far In it caustic diatribes its eagerness to sound forth arguments that plainly are and utterly absurd: arguments that the British 'Sojf IriTho Guard1 The New National Guard's cam- "palgn tofjenlist 45000 men is pnder way and should have quick success I Everybody knows the National Guard's -tradition of service- io its country has fought in all our major battles from Lexlngtor and Concord Leyte and Cologne! and In peacetime it has fought many battles wth fire flood and disease The Guard has a noble heritage Oeorge Washington was an Officer in the Virginia Guard -at the tlme of Braddock's defeat Andrew Jaek-raon and his Guard volunteers (crushed he British at New Orleans In the War of 2812 The young lAbra- -ham Lincoln was Captain of a militia company in the Black Hawk War In 1832 President Truman as a National Guard artillery Captain in France during World War I Gitlzeijfsoldiers have plajfed a 1 mighty part In the defense of our country tand their discipline and organization have been the backbone of ill our sudden military ex--pansJongj In th three years of its re-organl-xatlon 1 he New National Guard has grown tri 355000 men that's more than the Guard took into World War Its ultimate strength Is set at 884000 men in 27 divisions 12 air' witjgp 21 regimental fcombst teams and supporting combat troops These wB make up an M-Day force trained aid equipped for immediate action ihjany emergency A yoOng man who enlists jin the Guard today 'will be doing a good Job for himself as well as his coun- try He Will have a choice of (several types oj service: heavy mortar company heivy tank company Medical company! line rifle company etc He will train with modern Air Force and Army edtlpmentHe will be able to by a genera profit And he come at rates of The Gfuarq opens new avenues of: experience to young men glvea them hew tkljis and offers exceptional advantagf Without reservation 'we txrge all iellgible men to follow the advice cjf the slogan: "Get In The is an Integral part of the nation's defense L-- Fog Tho Killer The isiklng of the draper -Corin- thlan by the freighter Nlth thq gad -loss of slfe men speaks again thq terror of "Silent as the fishermen call big ships that steal up! 4n them in a fog (and slice them in! two without warning Fog comes "on cat and swathes jejren the most famJlliir sea-nelghbortipod In strangeness Fog the killer is) A delusion and a snkre in the literal sense of these words It plays fapiastlc tricks on thej Judgment Lfcpts show if at all at un-certain distances and whistle-bounds Jump alj ipund the compass The Corinthian was dead in the (Water fabling a ngt and "lighted up like Christmas tree" only sec- before 1 ends her yet the Mormaeflr rammed ese lights availed nothing They were seen too late 1 DetallV Of speed sre lacking but St Is alwgyb true that If a ship can't avoid rb lining into a stationary object she li going too fast On land i i O' I 1 i ir I i i' i ft: 2 H' A r-l if 4-! i a -i -H' 1 1 i1' I 'B 1 i i' i- I i i SSJIIW SJglym a icd Of tetter published lij Vtlee of the People do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of the Press Herald Letters will be published only over the name and address of the writer The Press Herald reserves the right not (to pub- them In Uah letters and to whdiiorj In port publish cot fpr a tablet I have of an overturned elm on the mat root tree at imjr home 270 Adims Street Quincy which covered with! vines end flowers have left great hurricane I enclose a sheet giving complete facte and authorities therefor QuinbyJ Maas' An Ugly Situation Editor of Here1 is People Me Sept "Early spoke at France the Press Herald: a letter from Portland Presi 7 1949 this Surnmdr treat peace the "Voice of the Herald Portland Pajl Robeson rally In Paris ils remarks were distorted and mlsre pres nted in the American press bul even rectloniof after this was known no cor apology waa ever made rent j-a- Britain labor Ceete a io Britain's hjgh labor cosG and low We hear a good deaL these 'days about prodi tlvity are commonly i put forward as important causes of thai much-publicized eeonomle woes And certainly they play a part Buc perhaps we tend to take too critical an attitude In urging Britain to help herself! lh these respects before seeking aid from I The United Nations Ectmoteie Commission for Europe has Jus i completed a survey or Ispor costa inv iriOuS nations It correlated! production employment and wage statistics of the Jnlted States end 13 European countries The conclusion Is that laibor costs In Ofeat Britain PtanceJ snd the Neth lands have risen less since tthe war than havei thoae In the United States It must be remembered of course that they did not all start fr im the ssme level Moreover I It Is perhaps misleading to compare changes ini labor costa apart from ths particular economies in! which thar occur 1 The fact remains that in 194S average labor costs in Britain were 85 per cent sbove the prewar average In the United -States they wer up IQS per cent Bo lt iqay be said at igast that it is not mounting labor costa that havei caused the deterioration of Britain's competitive position in world trade relative to (the United States I -i The story is simile? with regard to -productivity During the first I quarter of 1949 the output of the average Industrial worker hvss 22 per eent above the prewar level In Britain The increase In this Country was 30 per dent It Is then hardly sensible for us tq censure the British too) hsrshly for thglr failure to Improve weir This survey too has its limitations It is still true that whatever gains Britain hss mgde in productivity howrver well she has! held down mounting- labor costa -she It still a nation In heed of help from us Our own relatively poor Ireeord on labor costs and productivity doesn't alter that situation It la still Britain that la faced with the major economic problems of the day But perhaps we would be Just as well advised not- to auumethat she would have a much easier time of It If Saturday evening two weeks ago i gang of hoodlums broke Up a picnic at i which Mr Robeson was scheduled to sing at -PeekskUl These young Nads should most certainly be dealt with but does not a large-share of the (blame for such an outbreak rest with the heads of-the -organizations of which they Were member' as well as with the hate -cultivating news- -papers? I An (ugly situation 'browing in our Coimtry today Those who are loyal to the principles which made America great (hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created Just government derives its powers from the consent of the man is in- -nocehfe until he is' proved find themselves called "un-Amer-icanlirfellow travelers" while those who are loyal only to the profit-motive and -their self-interest even those who helped Hitler sit smugly in the seats of power ip-11 j--- In this atmosphere of Fhysteria the press holds a pivotal! position Jesus said "know! ye the truth! and Its shall set ye la that the reason for the 2he coloring the smearing of our news? Are our corporate bosses through our corporate press afraid to let us the American people know the truth? (Signed) Jonathon Rood Gorham Brief -note: It is 1 my belief that Mr Rood has shall I say1 inadvertently fallen for1 the Communist line of propaganda Calling veterans borders on' criminal libel It is regrettable that the press allots any space at all to the activities of Commiinlst fronts: possibly I'm wrong in this latter thought perhaps its moire publicity that's needed! to kill -communism Whichever way- is correct is the right way but it is unfortunate that Paul Robeson a confessed Communist should receive so much tree advertising Soviet Russia does not heltte imprison- those who disagree with her: lets not kid ourselves any longer let's have laws 'with teeth in them! I 'j Edward A Meyer Camden i Comment LI only khe would control her labor costs and boost- her productivity There'S more to her woes than Just that Hartford Courant ant IL 1 1 Jerusalem And The The proposal of the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission for Ermadent Internationalization of Jdnisa-n Whatever-its theoretical attractiveness may be aopears to have been far outrun both by time and avrnts 1 It la (not merely) a question of the refiisa! to cede their rights In Jewish Jerusalem although this alone would make the ft'o task of taking over I the (entire cltyi s' formidable one but also of tha prae-tieablllfy and effectiveness of fhe Conciliation: Commission's proposal 1 Thera was si time perhaps when Internation-allzatlon which wasj i suggested In Ne original partition resolution of 1947 'might have beett impodr but It waa the Israeli Army and! hot the U' which saw to It that the partition of Palestine became! a reality The fighting Jerusalem proper left (the 'Israelis in possession of the New City abd King' Abdullah's Mob Legion In control of the Old City end the complete acquiescence of both sides would be prerequisite to any plan (for treating the city as a whole New jVrk Herald Tribune Harry Burleigh i 1 Harry Burleigh the distinguished Negro composer end singer! died Monday at the age of $2 Wt don't know Just where Henry Thacker Burleigh will stand tn the long perspective of distinguished composers and lingers It doesn't matter he Is dead after af whole lifetime of song1 which began with his blind grandfather's singing spirituals to him in his cradle and ended With hie las breath I i Pori S3 years he Jwwe soloist 1 at St Oeorge'S Protestant' Episcopal Church in New York Thousands millions perhaps of people have sat under the spell of that magnificent voice with Its Indefinable overtones of melancholy snd hope: thousand have been Inspired by his playing thousands have been moved by hie arrangements pf spirituals and his original compositions Providence Journal warning that luck in a fog cant: ways hold al- i Pridoi IlnOutfi' Officers in all our armed Services did! everything possible duri ig war to instill lh the men rld outfit" This pride In the unit wljjlch a soldier belongs la lmporta itbut it can be carried to an extren This was discovered When lives wi re iost as the result of fights betweei members of units within the army Ve learned during the war that top much pride can be dangerous bee ius4 It obscures the greater responsltalltj of pride In the Country It is tms type of extreme blind loyalty that £ia caused so much trouble in our peacetime defense operation The alf force navy and army all could do little less pride in outfit a llttj pride In Country 1 'Scare Word In one sense jive agree with dent Truman that statlsm Is 1 It scarei us to think statlsm that Hitler imposed 01 ly all Europe and also thought to ponder life unde: plete control of state and Franco also have progress on the road to statlsm or handed domination of the' incUvlduxl by the central (government Americans would do well to remain everlastingly ln sucjh fear of the word that we never allow our Gove: nmlnt to expand to such proportions Britisli Plight A traveler returning from ondon says he tried to buy a pipe thefe The price was $1300! He said to thq salesman "But I ca xi buy that san pf pe In America for The urnful answer was: "You can We hftve an $800 purchase tax on that pipe hejre That is to prevent us from selling pipes here and head our jjrbddct over to British austerity forces thn to work for: others and not for themselves Devaluation ma only make them work harder violence wll thp three-day-old strike Of CIO meet-kers against fiva lfral uusage-maktog nts is absolutely inexcusable Knifings tings gnd acid-throwing arc more ropriatq to gang wan putes The public must ltlf-Boson Herald 1 1 ibscriptibn Rites lyjKJ 1 Mkti til aii otfMr Mimilii as Jot arts 1 is Tssseiseei I set fm IlsatS -1 if waits 1 iJSwMUj Mssisar AMWfstsJ frw 1 tj' tM sirtltlM eaelMivlv as the -ms rasas) 4wii I sit inis loesi mwi rmMs tsw Ntm OtiJ'r OsniML Frfa Anas iL Odnutt Vice jm lit Trees MIS 01 HIStubtw Roger Wtslamst AssC Trees 81 Asst Oea Mgr Oen Mgr Robert BtlUi Managing Editor 1 Duncan Ollphant Editor Emeritus Dwight Bsrgmt Chief EdltorisJ Writer RsymonoiDsvta AdviUireetor I Hayden Dava Circulation Men i Oeorge P- MarshaiL Production Mgr XL sm 4 Omis 1 i -1 'I i i i torrlbto la a hundred years (41' 1 i i.