| Show EDITORIALS 1 Apni 15 1S71 fpj£ J5alf lu4 trry morale by It All Depends Wednesday July 2 1947 Tb &it Ljr Tnbuo X Pobluhlo ft it Laic City Utab -- ON WHOM TH'OX ROBERT RUARK REPORTS I SCORING Truman Signs 'Rent Control’ Measure As Only Way Out of Dilemma President Truman believing that a crumb of rent control is better than none at all has signed a bill that is loosely called a “rent control” measure He said that the act is a step backward in the fight to keep living costa down and in governmental efforts to protect tenants against exorbitant demands on the part of landlords There is little doubt but the president faced a dilemma created by congress and a powerful lobby He had no other course and the families who will suffer financial hard- ships under the new law must blame congress — after they settle things with the landlord But to condemn all owners of rental property even before anything drastic happens is unfair There will be many landlords who will not take advantage of the situation and a number of renters who will find no hardships under the present setup As a matter of justice it must be admitted that the owners of dwelling properties have been under control for longer than any other group engaged in furnishing essentials of liv- ing to Americans Prices have been removed from foods and everything else on w'hich the average family depends for its daily livelihood and comfort Taxes wages for help water rates furnishings and costs of maintenance have ail increased since the close of the war Reasonable raises in rents should be allowed “Without any rent control” Mr Truman said in his message to congress “millions of American families would face rapidly soaring rents and wholesale evictions We are still suffering from a critical housing shortage Many families are desperately seeking homes In their desperation they would have to submit to demands of exorbitant rent Even this inadequate law presents fewer dangers than would the complete lack of rent control” But regardless cf rent control housing for the families of America remains a most important domestic problem especially providing shelter for the many war veterans who served their country on battlefields only to return to a homeland without facilities to care for them and their families In pointing out the gravity of the housing situation the presi- dent said: Marshall's Assistance Plan Confuses the Russians It is apparent that Secretary Marshall pitched the Russians a sizzling fast ball when he made his proposal for aid to Europe They are still fanning the air and calling for a new count First thing that happened was a blank refusal on the part of Pravda to have anything to do with the plan Then Mr Molotov that stand aersrg tosomething wrong withministers in a join other foreign agreed conference at Paris to discuss ways and means of putting it into effect Now Pravda steps in to declare that no European ration could accept the program if It means American interference with the internal affairs of that country It all adds up to a quandary in the middle is Russia It will be difficult for the which of Soviet propagandists to persuade war-tor- n countries of Europe to renounce badly needed assistance offered by the United States It will also be difficult for Moscow to explain the deference between Russian policies and Russian interference with the internal affairs self-respecti- of another country But it seems that Moscow has overlooked the most important aspect of the Marshall proposal — that of aiding populations and countries that are walling to help themselves America is not dangling gifts before the eyes cf hungry Europeans in order to make them believers in the democratic form of government A western Europe composed of “rice Christians” is neither desirable nor the objective of American foreign policy America wants a Europe that 'is able to stand on its economic feet in the interest of worii recovery’ and universal peace But America also wants a Europe that will eventually become strong again through its own efforts Assistance from across the sea is only incidental The United States has the right to insist that this help be administered under free governments and not by potential foes The people of this country do not care to help peoples whose leaders will boast as they did in Hungary that they “put something over” on the Americans before they knew what was taking place Russ an suspicion as to American inten emergency in housing I recommended that the housing expediter be given the necessary powers to expedite the production of building materials and the construction of houses “The congress responded to my recommendations by passing the veterans’ emergency housing act of 1946 With the emergency measures provided by the act the supply of building materials has increased tremendously and the number of new homes built has increased at a rate surpassing our best prewar achievements ‘The veterans’ emergency housing program was announced in February 1946 By the close of that year 670500 permanent family houaing units in addition to over 300000 units of other types had been started In the first five months of this year 280300 new permanent family dwelling units were begun and 300000 were completed Although this accomplishment is heartening it is not once drew fire and crossfire from the American publc when among c’her jrovocaLve d"ctrines he to preach that every- a mother's love to from thing chastity is afTTrws comparative And dd he not that as to the former it is realty ard always aelfsn ? In effect he said (as I recall) that a mother does for her child exactly what she wants to do and you just try to stop her Well if that be selfishness (and perhaps the learned doctor was but challenging us to better understand mother lovel there can never be too much of it But as to the absolute after Dachau and Lidice Bertrand Russell should modify' his thesis ard perhaps rewrite it Unless a man does have an absolute somewhere along the way he may become another Hitler ired Looking forward to further assistance in solving the housing problem the president urged congress to complete action on legislation to accomplish the objectives he listed as: “1 To provide public aid to localities for low rent housing for families in the lowest income group “2 To encourage private investment in rental housing by federal insurance “3 To provide a more adequate program of farm housing “4 To extend aid to our cities for the clearance of slums and blighted areas “5 To perfect and supplement existing aids to home financing “6 To provide a substantial program of housing research to assist industry in progressively reducing the cost of housing” It is to be hoped that some positive action will be taken during this session of congress toward stabilizing the housing situation It is to the interest of everyone landlords and tenants that every American who desires a home be able to buy or build one not at exorbitant prices but at levels possible for the average family A nation of home owners is a nation of good and patriotic citizens tions In western Europe might well create a situation in which no help will go to any country — a con’dltion of affairs which could turn out to be extremely unfortunate not only for Russia but for the whole program of world recovery It s to be hoped that the Soviet representatives to the Paris conference will check their misgivings at the door while cooperating with sincere delegations in a prod gram to assist peoples to get back on their feet war-ravage- Centennial Celebrators From the Mountains The average American has grown accustomed to the antics and eccentricities of wild bipeds but he stares with astonishment or listens with incredulity when wild quadrupeds come down from their mountain sanctuaries to browse in city parks swim with tourists in lake resorts romp through the business district and leap through glass fronts of mercantile establishments to successfully evade interference by the municipal police Vigilant officers cruising in a motor vehicle near the intersection of Second South and Fourth West streets Sunday evening saw a deer ambling westward apparently enjoying Centennial sights and sounds Indiscreetly the guardians of peace and propriety stepped on the gas With a natural aversion to mechanical contraptions the deer began to run but being unacquainted with the numbering system became confused and cornered However rather than suffer the humiliation of capture the resourceful animal leaped through a plate glass window Into a clothing house and out again as the more considerate officers were trying to open a door both the deer According to and the men escaped without physical contact or contusions Just what kind of a performance some romantic ruminant of the upland valleys may stage next is unpredictable Sufficing to say the department of public safety' will keep its eyes peeled and the city' commissioners may' enact an 'ordinance covering quadrupedal trespassing A There are irreducible minimum for character as well as for lab- -- ' j enough” By DR DANIEL A POLING Russell AT SEA — I had forgotten what It was like to go to sea In peacetime I had forgotten that it could be so pleasant When night falls I still reach up to close the ports although tjie necessity no longer exists For the first couple of nights I found myself pacing the decks outside our cabin wishing I could have a cigaret Then it suddenly occurred to me that I could smoke a cigaret at night qn deck if I wanted to That Seemed very funny in view of the fact that I once spent two years trying to convince transient troops and sailors that smoking on deck after dark was so naughty 1 mu apt to shoot the first man I caught Our ship is a freighter the Express owned by the American the war Export Lines During she was an A P A — an attack transport — and she was called the U S S Adair She has been freshly reconverted as a freighter and is heading for India She 13 going to pause briefly in Gibraltar to allow my wife and me to jump over the “In January 1946 I recommended the enactment of legislation to meet an immediate AMERICANS ALL Ertrand t But oratory demonstrations do their have comparatives place in life and in postwar twentieth century life It is a very large place Take airplane travel for instance This morning I was roused at 1 am by a reservation clerk who said “Flight No 501 is cancelled because of an equipment shortage due to weather Our ships didn't get through but we’ve transferred you to Flight No 537 (on another line) which leaves ninety minutes later but arrives in Chicago at just about the same time" Before we finally took off we waited at the port for a full hour Then a head wind cut our speed to less than three hundred miles an hour The man In the seat behind me declared that the delay had cost him "a million dollars” We fin eye-witness- es ally arrived nearly two hours late — or were we late ? We were still hours ahead of any train a long day ahead of the swiftest automobile and months ahead of those who got there in time to save an empire for the flag Copyright 1947 New York Post Corporation By CHAIRMAN JAMES J METCALFE chairman the chosen head some directors’ board Whose Job it is to stimulate A spirit of accord Or he is one whose duty is To rule a meeting hall And listen to Advanced by the arguments one and all He supervises programs and Proposes cerAnd tries to antain tasks swer everything That anyIf there is too body asks The much noise he pounds In order gavel in his nand to remind the crowd That He has to he is in command be a patient soul Equipped And he with common sense Inmust be a leader who spires confidence A Of Is Guilty Feeling Haunts Scribe Brealdug War Rules at Sea er agreement Which had been put in final form ii) the same hotel in which Reuther was staying But Reuther had never been told that the work wras Reuther was going forward given fifteen minutes in which to read the agreement He objected to its terms and asked for a meeting on the matter for d the week of June 23 The ALSOP BROTHERS NOTE Communists Seek to Oust Reutlicr Control UAW WASHINGTON — Something ha been quietly in progress In Chicago and Detroit which may in the end have a more profound effect on the future of the American labor movement and Indeed on American politics as a whole than the controversial new labor act One of the slickest maneuvers in labor history has been going on in the C I O's United Automobile Workers the biggest CIO union This maneuver is designed to oust Walter UAW Reuther president from the union’s leadhim with ership and replace dark-face- d ambianti-commun- ist George Addes who tious secretary-treasure- r has consistently worked with the communists If the trick succeeds unions representing close to a majority of the CIO membership will have fallen under tight comThe situation munist control will be beyond remedy by Philip Murray the C I O’s sincere but vacillating president A really important segment of the American labor movement will be at the beck and call of the Communist party In the light of this possibility the commotion about the labor law looks pretty like fiddling w’hile Rome burns The history of the maneuver starts with the jurisdictional U A W troubles between the UAW and another CIO union the small Farm Equipment-Wcrker- s who are tightly held by Grant Oakes the communists Farm Equipment president has indorsed a subscription drive of “The New York Daily Worker” a journal to which he frequently interview- exclusive grants Nevertheless the CIO leader-shi- p Reuther included has repeatedly attempted mergeto the do UAW and the F E W away with the Jurisdictional The F E W alcomplications ways resisted slnplo amalgamation on party instructions claiming that it needed a “better deal” When the FEW turned down a merger proposal made by the C I O’s jurisdictional committee a UAW committee was established to negotiate with a F E W committee The U A W committee was made up of Addes men It never reported W specific progress to the U A ofboard In March Reuther fered to help negotiations Meetings between the two commit- that Latin saying “Caveat — emp-tor- ” let the buyer watch out or something - Anyway I’ve made it a practice to get real chummy with my butchers and everything has been lovely until I had to let my husband do the buying And all this talk about the brotherhood of man Fiddlesticks! Whose deal is it? Taft-Hartle- y ! ‘ ! at-se- tees were called All were canceled at the last moment by the FEW The regular board meeting of the UAW took place In Chicago from June 9 to June 13 Ori June 10 the FEW said that a merger proposal had been submitted to Philip Murray Ques- tioned on this George Addes claimed that he knew nothing about it and so did his men on the board Walter Reuther ani nounced during the meeting that he would have to leave on the last day Friday the 13 for Washington at 1115 that morning Murray never received the dency” But the dynamite is not confined to the auto worker’s presi- i f r able kindness and some nostalgia Each officer has a lorg repertoire of stories about "my gunnery officer” and somehow the navy seems to be tieduip In most of the fun the merchant people had during the war The youth of the officers todav is surprising The ships I rode three or four years ago had a heavy quota of old timers grizzled old guys with skins and heavy tattoo I haven't seen one tattoo so far Most of these kids are graduates of the wartime training schools If they are typical of the new generation of merchant officers they are going to be a better advertisement abroad for the United States than some of the old roughnecks who stopped at the first saloon they saw ard never got out of the dock are They are good looking kids of good family and they are going to sea today because a merchant sailor Is no longer ranked somewhere between bum and bad actor The standard living and the salaries have mounted so high that seafaring under its present circumstances Is a desirable profession sun-creas- ed ' 4TH OF JULY SALE SUMMER DRESSES Vi OFF PURE SILKS Regular $5950 121-vot- e' SUMMER PRINTS VALUES Group I Group II j to $2995 NOW $1000 j Yalues to $3995 " NOW $1500 Values to $4503 FORMALS NOV Vs OFF SUMMER ® SUMMER COATS Black Navy— Yalues to $9850 NOW The process by which dency m Europe have communists gained the whip hand over gov- ernments by their control over union labor would be Immeasurably advanced here Theof vast the noncommunist majority Vo OFF ALL SALES FINAL No Exchanges— No Returns Ladles' Department proposal At 10 o’clock Friday the Addea wing suddenly produced a merg- - :i i £3 '1 2m J? 01 ! MMOBHIS By IIAM PARK The Bridge Club Meet I know one thing girls and that is when I get this cast off my leg and am able to get around better I am going to give a piece of my mind to the butchers my husband’s been trading with while I was laid up Why some of the things they sold him were a caution For instance last Saturday I told him to get a small leg of lamb for Sunday Well he brought home one that was simply huge! Said the butcher told him spring lambs were bigger this year My goodness they ought to be — those that were born in the we’ve had spring of '45! Why over lamb roast lamb warmed and cold lamb already and I’m planning lamb stew and lamb croquettes for later I’ve noticed when my husband snores it’s kind of a bleat You know girls one of the first things my mother told me about housekeeping was to watch out for the butcher She said he was no different from anyone else who had something to sell — you know like someone who sells cantaloupes and things and whose motto is I O would probably be powerless to stop it No one who has studied the matter believes that j the act could pos- -' sibly stop it It is a process which has elsewhere led again and again to the terrible final split between left and extreme right which is the disaster of Europe It is not too much to say that the future of the United Automobile Workers in the next few months will closely affect the future of the United States Copyright 1917 N Y Tribune C Addes-controlle- executive board ordered over Reuther’s objections a referendum on the merger to be completed by July 15 Reuther's objertioris were not to the merger w’hich he himself had attempted to promote The agree- but to its terms ment was full of “gimmicks” largely designed to give the FEW political influence a disproportionate weight in the U A W The real meaning of the proposed merger may be seen in terms of last year’s victory for Reuther which was by a The slim margin F E W claims a total member- ship of over 75000 Its actual membership is probably less than 40000 But even this mem- bership would give the union 400 votes at the UAW conven- Detroit’s labor tion next fall paper “The Wage Earner” quoted the remark that there is “enough dynamite in the issue to blow Reuther out of and Addes into the UAW presi- - SENATOR FROM SANDPIT The butchers use everything about the hog but the squeal and the consumer usesL that when he is told the price of pork — Durham Sun side This is the second S S Express The first one took a couple of fish in the Mozambique channel early in the war and our present skipper Capt Bill Kuhne was forced to swim for an hour or so The captain today is a touch chagrined He got off his last ship because he was sick of the India run and bumped smack into it again on this baby The vessel looks sort of naked now since its gun tubs have been burned off and its armament returned to the navv The ocean looks naked too You get used to seeing 60 or 70 ships around you and you forget that Ahe Atlantic ocean is consider-- j able millpond are the only passengers and that gives you a A woman fits feeling funny oddly aboard ship As I remember the navy discouraged the practice of taking ladies to aea I feel highly illegal at the moment as if I were pulling a sharp trick which might lard me In the brig I also feel guilty about not getting up before dawn Who is standing general quarters if not me and why didn’t the bosun’s mate snake me out of the sack in the cold black morning? Somebody is going re-to And then I catch hell member that I am a civilian again The old man has us in for cocktails and oncemore the t guilt comes back You weren A lot supposed to drink a of people did but they did it on the sneakand it was considered baiUtaste to go around breathing gin on other people It made them indignant because they didn’t have any gin on their own breaths There was a lot of etrife during the war between the merchant Bailors and the navy gun crews aboard their ships But I find now that the navy guya are remembered with considerWe aboard You-A- ll means a race or section party tribe or clan Family You-a- ll means the whole conYou-a- ll v nection Of the Individual man In the singular it’s never Used in this part of the land But we g’ve up hope of ever others understand Making — Richmond (Va ) Times- - Dispatch Note on the Cuff Department Kate and Jack Wheelhouse of Sacramanto are in town for a visit They are Michael’s other a grandparents and we'll be in dither until we’ve spent an evening with them listening to all the news about our kids Ham Jr told them that if they couldn’t get a picture he wanted a minute description of my beard Well as Shakespeare said: “It's an thing sir but mine own” Held converse the other day j j ' ’ ed BUY A with two young friends of mine — Jim Kelly and Richmond' Pugh I’ve known them and their families for a lorg time and it’s always a pleasure and a privilege to be with them I read where the big loan agencies were becoming wor- ned because the farmers were dojng so well that they were paying off their mortgages Well such things tend to equalize themselves it seems to me The farmers pay off their mortgages and other folks mortgage something in order to buy what ’ the farmer raises A MONTH n m i MEMBER A labor lawyer was painfully sunburned while y labor holding the act up to the Lght for holes well-know- BOND - loans to Business loam - personaUIoans money for vacations buy cars and appliances and home modernization or to buy or refinance real estate Yes all these are part of First Security’s complete loan service - and each loan we make is fitted to individual requirements offering each borrower the utmost in convenience and consideration Jhen you have need to borrow let us help you work but a practical and economical answer to your problem- - BANK FIRST tiui limit - Xj 'o if- - SECURITY ttMtii -- CORP imuict ciiMiuiia Taft-Haitle- O S R il ' i ON A W i MUM h i TlBi |
