The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 27-52

Friday, Sept. 16, .1949 fhe Cedarvile Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the Postof­ fice at Cedarville, Ohio, under Act o f Congress o f March 1879, Member—National Editorial A s­ sociation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. Editorial THE FARM VOTE Official Washington, from the president to the janitors, are ad­ mitting their worry over the farm situation. “ The men in Washing­ ton” see an end to the lush multi- hillion-dollar period agriculture has enjoyed. But what to do about it, and how? That's the worry. A - bout all o f the 400-plus congress­ men face re-election in 1950. The farmer population in the country numbers over 30 millions. The farmer vote is the determining factor of elections. It decided the J o z y Fri. and Sat. Sept. 16-17 **' Dquble Feature Program: * “Quick on the Trigger” and “Blondie’s Secret” ■Sun. and Mon. Sept. 18-19 Clark Gable - Walter Pidgeon ‘Command Decision* Also Fox News Wed. and Thurs Sept. 21-22 Dana Andrews - Lilli Palmer “ No Minor Vices” News — Cartoon — Pete Smith Beginning Sunday, Sept. 18 time o f the first show 7:00 P. M. 1948 election. It will decide oth­ ers. Plans are offered. Subsidies. Price supports. Stabilization. Ev­ erybody has a plan, from crack- not dreamers to practical dirt farmers. Back of it all is the the fanner vote, A RARE FIND Archeologists, piddlin' 'ound in Wyoming have unearthed re­ mains o f an ancient—very, very proof o f their existence, their mode o f life and their implements and food. Fragments o f all this in a good state o f preservation were found. The time o f the per­ iod is believed to have been a- bout 12,000 B, C. Tools and rec­ ords and food indicate they were put there by the Yuma culture, a nomadic group that disappear­ ed centuries ago. The find is near Cody. Wyoming. Maybe they were Republicans? SCRAMBLING “ Britain Scrambling to Get More Dollars." That’s the head­ line. The herrin"- fishing industry wants money tcA make plumper and juicier herring available. Will they get the money? Want, to bet. WE ARE GENEROUS Giving things is Uncle Sam’s main holts. Recently we gave Greece 30 C-47's. They weren’t from.our stockpile; just some re­ conditioned planes we thought a good neighbor like Greece could use. Anybody else want anythin**? Step right up I Don't be bashful. We’ve eot everything. Ask. That’s all. (We hope Eng­ land isn’t listening!) CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes W ith a Buckeye I n Congress The House will end its three day recesses on Septmeber 21st, but is not expected i/j transact any important legislative busi­ ness the first few days after re­ suming regular sessions. In the Chauffeur’s Photos 24 Hour Service Call at Residence o f NELSON CRESWELL S. Main St. Cedarville meantime the Senate is making little progress under the guidance o f Majority Leader Lucas o f Illi­ nois, who is now predicting Con­ gress will not adjourn before late October, and perhaps not until Thanksgiving. President Truman’s Labor Day speeches, appealing to the work­ ers and the farmers o f the na­ tion, are being considered in Washington as purely political and as setting the* stage for the opening of the 1950 campaign. General Eisenhower’s r e c e n t statement on the dangers invol­ ved in the present trend toward statism has caused much discus­ sion around the Capitol. Many wonder whether the doughty General is angling for the 1952 Republican 'Presidential nomina­ tion. Several Democratic Sena­ tors are making public predic­ tions President Truman will be a candidate for a third term. Senator Taft is devoting every free moment to mending his poli­ tical fences in Ohio in prepara­ tion for 1950. Many trained poli­ tical observers are now predict­ ing the Senator will be re-elected despite the opposition of" the ra- dcal groups—and if Teelected that he will probably be the Re­ publican nominee fo r the Presi­ dency in 1952. While the revelations of the activities of General H a r r y Vaughn, the President's military aide and confidante, have been shocking to the nation, they have actually disclosed only petty fi­ nagling in behalf of race track groups and other small-time op­ erators in which no great sums were involved. The more serious angle o f the whole Vaughn af­ fair is that the President o f the United States seemingly can see no wrong in the things his friend and military aide has done and •continues him in his official posi­ tion. In fact, the President had General Vaughn accompany him on his Labor Day tour of the Mid­ west—excellent proof o f his dis­ regard for public opinion. While President Truman in his Des Moines speech last week de­ manded Congressionol approval of the Brannan Plan, and pledged his every effort to put the Plan into effect, it is now being pre­ dicted in Washington that he will approve an agricultural bill to he sponsored by Senator Ander­ son o f New Mexico, former Sec­ retary o f Agriculture. The An­ derson Bill will not be m line with the Brannan Plan, bub will be a compromise between the Gore Bill recently enacted by the House, the 1938 AAA Act now in effect, and the Aiken Law passed by the last Congress and sched­ uled to become effective January 1st, next. Under the Anderson Bill, prices on six basic farm products—'Wheat, corn, cotton, to­ bacco, rice and peanuts—will be maintained at 90% o f parity, with certain controls on acreage, while other crops' will be given sliding scale price support as pro­ vided under the Aiken Law. I f the Anderson Bill is approved there will be no sharp break in farm prices within the next 12 or 15 months, but rather a grad­ ual decline. Seemingly it is the plan of the Truman Administra­ tion to carry on a farm price sup­ port program as nearly like the present one as possible, with the Brannan Plan being made an 'is­ sue in the 1950 election campaign in the hope it will attract the votes of the unthinking. The economic and financial conference now being held in Washington between officials of the United States, Canada and Great Britian, as this is written, is not expected to result in any clear-cut decision of world shak­ ing importance. Administration spokesmen know the Congress will be skeptical and hard to sell ; on any plan plan which may mean either increased American aid to Great Britian . or trade concessions which will injure the American economy. Many mem­ bers of Congress believe the ans­ wer to Britian’s problem is not more American dollars, but rath­ er some fundamental changes in British policies, both economic and govermental. They appreciate the importance o f Great Bhitian to America’s security and pros­ perity, but will insist that Great Britian must cooperate with the United States by first doing her full share to help herself. Brit­ ish officials, who recently said thev would accept the 800 mil­ lion dollars in.American aid of-- fered under the Marshall Plan but must have a billion and a half instead, are due for a rude awakening, despite all the pretty - speeches and promises made by .the President and other Admin­ istration spokesmen. Federal officials expect enroll­ ment in the elementary schools of the nation to be 893 thousand higher this year than last, to reach a total of approximately 20 million students. It is pre­ dicted that by 1957 there will be 27 million youngsters enrolled in our grade schools—all as a re­ sult o f the heavily accelerated birth rate during the war years. It will require many new school buildings to house these addition- - al students, Federal officials es­ timate that in order to meet the demand there should be a billion dollars worth of new school con­ struction each year fo r the next ten years. During 1949 only about 700 million dollars is being spent on new school facilities. Several prominent labor or­ ganizations are said to be pre­ paring to campaign for amend­ ments to the Social Security Act so as to provide fo r the payment o f Old Age benefits under the Social Secruity to begin at the age of forty-five instead of sixty- five, as the law now provides, Just what amount Social Security taxes would have to be increased to finance such a program has not yet been estimated. The Cedarville, O. Herald W H Y T H E PACIFIC R A ILR O AD 'S TR IK E? Over twenty years ago, the Congress o f the United States passed the Railway Labor Act. It was hailed by union leaders as a model fo r the settlement of labor disputes. T he leaders o f the Brotherhood o f Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood o f Locomotive Firemen and Engmeraen, Order of Railway Conductors, and the Brotherhood o f Railroad Trainmen on the Missouri Pacific Railroad have refused to avail themselves o f the peaceful means provided by this Act for settling their dis­ putes. They insist that they be the sole umpire o f their own disputes over the meaning o f contracts. There is no Need for Strikes With all o f the available methods for the interpretation o f contracts, there; is nO; need for a strike or even a threat o f a strike, but the leaders o f these railroad unions have ignored the ordinary pro­ cedures established by law and insistupon imposingtheir own interpretations o ftheir contracts by means o f a strike. , The wheels have stopped rolling on the Missouri Pacific. They may stop rolling on other railroads a t any time. Recently the Wabash Railroad was forced to dis­ continue operation for several days under similar circumstances. President Truman’ s Board Condemns Strike There is an established legal method for handling disputes involving existing writ­ ten contracts—just as there is such a method, o f settling any contract dispute which you may have in your daily life. The President o f the United States ap­ pointed a Fact Finding Board to invest*^ gate and adjust the Missouri Pacific dis­ pute. This Board reported, in part, as follows: ~ .. . itIswitha sense ofregretuua: w* areobliged to report the failure of ovxmis­ sion. It items inconceivable to us that: a coercive airlko should occur on one of &c nation’s major transportation systems, vtb all of ihe tosses and hardships that would follow, in viewof the fact that the Railway Laborict provides an orderly, efficient and complete remedy for the fair and just set­ tlement of the matters in dispute. Grier, ancesofthecharacterboreunderdiscussion aresonumerousandofouchfrequentoccur­ rence on all railroadsthatthegeneral adop­ tion of the policy pursued by the organiza­ tions in this case would soon result in the complete nullification of the Railway Labor Act. . .** What are These Strikes About? Obviously the railroads cannot bo run efficiently or economically i f the leaders of the unions Ignnre agreements or saws Provisions ot live haw which are Disregarded Thera are five ways under the Railway LaborAct to settle disputesoverthe mean­ ing o f contracts: 1—Decision by National Railroad Ad­ justment Board. 2— Decision by System Adjustment Board for the specific railroad. 3—Decision by arbitration. 4— Decision by neutral referee. 5 —Decision by courts. The Missouri Pacific Railroad ha* been and is entirely willing to have these dis putes settled in accordance with the re­ quirements o f the Railway Labor Act, Regardless o f this tact, tha union letdey have shut down that railroad Innocent Bystanders Suffer Losses and Hardships There arc about 6,000 ef.guwvai, firemen. isooductatB and on th«t Misre.iri Pacific. They « e knovw, as ‘ -jperat;ng” •employes, and are the most LigiJv paid ot ail employes on the nation s railroads, bin their strike action has resulted in the loss o f work to 22,500 other employes o f the ’ Missouri Pacific In addition, they have imposed great inconvenience and hard­ ship upon the public and iba nommtmi*i«> served by that railroad. The Railway Labor Act w*a oeaigneu to protect the public against mat such in­ terruptions o f commerce. IfIheso tuen willnotcomplywith fair pro yisiaji? ot the law for the scnlmaen* -»f such disputes, thenall thinkingAmericanomust fare the ejuc-s- lion, “What is the i»«t step?” These strikes and* strike threats are not about wage rates or hours. They result ftaxa disputes over the meaning o f exist­ ing contracts. They cover claims for a full day’s pay for less than a day’s work, orfor payments for servicesperformedby others qdio were fully-paid for the ■yorkdone.. e a s t e r n so u th e a s t e r n D tk WESTERN BABE IN IHE Canneries Boost Labor [ Employment Ohio canneries,, swinging into full-time operation, will boost em­ ployment opportunities fo r Ohio's labor force by providing some 12,- 000 jobs in fruit* and vegetable processing plants, the bureau o f unemployment compensation re­ ports. The division has been conducting special recruitment campaigns to help meet the demand for cannery workers. In addition, the Employ­ ment Service has cooperated with growers and canners to find be­ tween 1? and 15 thousand work­ ers who will be needed in the fields to pick corn and tomatoes^ Ohio’s principal canning crops. WHERE TO BUY B & B LOAN 63 W. Main St. Springfield, O. BARGAINS GALORE LOOK IN OUR WINDOW’ S WASHINGTON :By SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFTS A Washington C. H. judge' ruled that Carey Persinger coaid be buried by the side of his par­ ents, respite opposition of his relatives. DEAD STOCK Horses $4.00 Cows $4.00 According to Size and Condition CALL Xenia 454 Reverse Charges XENIA FERTILIZER E. G. Buchsieb Co. U NDER the ECA program fo r the current fiscal year, we are proposing to make a g ift to the British o f approximately $800,000,000. Now Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin are visiting Washington to convince us that such allowance is wholly insufficient and that, unless something further is done, Britain will collapse. I always view with some skepticism the idea that a country is going sud-A denly to collapse. The value of the pound may drop; there may be a tremendous excitement in the news­ papers,but some­ how the people in a coun try seem to go on liv in g through collapses in very much, the same way in which they have al­ ways lived. Imm ed ia tely after the war, we created at Brett on Woods the International Monetary Fund into which we put about the only real value, some $2,750,000,000 in American gold. Nearly all o f it has been dissipated for soft currencies, and $300,000,000 svent to England. Although we were told at the time by the Treasury that this Fund would solve the financial troubles o f Europe, we were soon asked for a direct loan of some $4,000,000,000 for Great Britain over a 3-year period. That lasted about a year and a half. Then, after some interim assistance, the ECA provided $1,250,000,000 in the last fiscal year. I have always felt that some emergency aid to meet the war situation was justified and should be given, but today the war has been over for four years, and so far as aid was. justified for re­ construction or readjustment it has been given. The British sit- cation today is no different from whafc it will be five years from now, and I do not see how one nation can go on indefinitely sup­ porting another nation. I believe the time has come when the British must adjust themselves to the world as they find it, * * * T HE British bewail a ' dollar shortage and make it sound-as if the United States were respon­ sible for it. What they mean is that they are not producing enough goods to enable them to pay for the goods they want to buy from us. This is hardly our fault. We are importing goods from all over the world at the rate of $7 billion a year and paying out another billion for tourist travel’, so that we are scattering $8 billion every, year throughout the world, which could be acquired directly, or by exchange, to pur­ chase American goods. This, is far more than sufficient, to pay for the surpluses of wheat, cot- ’ ton and tobacco which America must export. There is also some tendency on the part of the British to blame the United States for the reduction of their exports to us because the de­ velopment of a buyers’ market here resulted in less demand for British goods. But the total personal con­ sumption expenditures in this coun­ try is approximately the same as it was in 1948. The market is still here, but British goods are more difficult to sell because there are no longer American shortages, and the British cannot meet American prices, * * » T HE sooner the British face their fundam en ta l w eakn ess, the sooner they can solve their prob­ lem. It seems to me we are giving now to the limit o f our ability. One of my objections to the ECA figures is that we have accepted the planned economy o f the British, socialists and tried to provide the exact figure which they need to carry out their detailed economic plan. 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