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DAILY MEDITATIONS
Come unto me all ye
o GIRLT that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you
rest.
' Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in
heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.—Gospel of St. Matthew 11:28-29-30,
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Senate Cold-Shoulders Carson
For Federal Trade Commission
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent.
WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—Nomination of John
Carson for membership on the Federal Trade
Commission is being given the Senate’s best ‘“do
nothing” treatment. Carson’s nomination was sent
to Congress by President Truman on April 7. Not
a hand has been turned to do anything about it.
This system, of course, worked well in stopping
confirmation of presidential pal Mon C. Wallgren
of Washington as chairman of the National Secu
rity Resources Board.
‘The objection of some senators to Carson—for
merly an ace newspaperman—is obviously that he
has recently been connected with the Co-operative
League of America. Many business interests op
pose his nomination on the same grounds.
‘But ‘the record of the Federal Trade Commis
sion’ in recent years indicates that some new blood
of this kind may be exactly what it needs. Like
the -Interstate Commerce Commission and the
Maritime Commission — recently written up in
this space—FTC has fallen into a sad decline.
.They have too many old men on them. They
were ho doubt great men and they made great
récords in their younger days. Unfortunately,
tflerefis no way in which these elderly members
of thé} the independent regulatory agencies of gov
ernment may be retired on pension, which they
justly deserve, after long and faithful public
s?rvic,e.
MASON COULD USE HELP
" Lowell Mason, acting chairman of FTC and its
real live wire today, is now 56. A great non-con
formist, Commissioner Mason comes up every so
often with a new idea and a fresh viewpoint. But
one man alone can’t make the place hum. If he
liad someone to help him like John Carson—a
mere boy of 59 with an interest in snvall business
and the consumer welfare—more Washington re
éorters might again start paying some attention to
the place.
. Garland S. Ferguson is 71. He has been on the
commission since 1927, when he was appointed to
it by President Coolidge. Before that he was a
-iawyer and counsel for Southern Railroad and
Newport News Shipbuilding Company. There is
heavy political pressure from North Carolina, his
native state, to keep him on the commission.
. Bdwin Lamar Davis is 73. He is a Tennesseean
who served seven terms in Congress before he was
appointed to FTC by President Roosevelt in 1933.
tn Congress, his big achievement ‘was investiga
tion of World War I Lasker Shipping Board. Last
year the main job of presenting basing point les
timony to Senator Capehart's subcommittee fell
on Commissioner Davis's shoulders.
William A. Ayres of Kansas is 82. He served
nine terms in Congress before appointment to
FTC by President Roosevelt in 1934.
© As sized up by rhen who do business with this
venerable commission, its main trouble is that it
is bogged down in the red tape of its own minor
cases involving complaints against false claims in
advertising, trade practice rules, wool labeling
and irade marks. Last year FTC had 2,000 appli
‘cations for complaints before it. Of these, 463
cases were docketed for disposition. It settled 143
iand had 320 left over as unfinished business at the
‘end of the year.
PRINCIPAL JOBS SUBORDINATED
“ In this process, the principal functions of FTC
~—advising Congress on economic developments
‘and recommending corrective legislation — have
‘been given second place.
» Federal Trade Commission was created in 1915
.to operate “in the public interest” and to ‘‘foster
‘j‘the American economic system of free competitive
enterprise.” In short, it was set up under the anti
irust laws to check monopolistic and unfair trade
spractices, such as price-fixing, boycotts and com=-
iniations in restraint of frade,
~ That the commission has not been successful on
this last point is perhaps best shown by its own
reports to Congress on the growth of monopolies.
For vears the commission has been recommending
.revision of the Clayton anti-trust act to check
Zmergers by purchase of assets. Nothing has ever
rcome of it. FTC hasn't pushed.
. In its early years, FTC showed great promise.
“When Robert E. Healy — later with SEC — was
“counsel for FTC, he conducted its power trust in
vestigation. This investigation was first proposed
:by the late Senator Walsh of Montana. The Senate
ishifted it to FTC, thinking it would be buried.
‘Healy brought it to life. Tt resulted in the passage
“of holding company regulatory legislation.
Free Speech Decision
The Supreme {4ourt has handed down a decis
ion on free speech that goes to the roots of a dilem
ma in our democr: icy.
Here's the puzzh2: Do our freedoms include the
freedom to urge th e destruction of the very liber
ties we prize?
Should free spiech be permitted to a Com
munist or Fascist ;who advocates a system that
would destroy free speech? Should a place on the
ballot go to the man who, if elected, would abolish
the ballot?
The men who mad e our Constitution were anx
ious to erect every possible safeguard for individ
ual liberties. But it ist hard to imagine they could
have foreseen the use. of those liberties for the
virtual suicide of a deemocratic regime. To employ
freedom as a weapon iagainst itself is the ‘cynically
clever scheme of totalitarians.
‘The postwar spread of Russian-controlled Com
munism has sharpeneti this issue for us, Voices in
Congress demanded that we outlaw the Com
munist Party, or at le:ast put heavy shackles on it.
And now the Supreme Court has spoken its views.
The case involved a Catholic priest who was
fined SIOO after conviction on a charge of breach
ing the peace in Chicago. The Chicago courts said
the priest’s offense was making a speech that in
cited a crowd to anger and unrest. They said he
had no right to make that speech.
The priest is not an avowed Communist or
Fascist. But the higla court’s 5 to 4 ruling in his
favor bears on the Telation between free speech
apd anti-democratic forces.
Justice Douglas, who wrote the majortiy opin
ion, said a speaker has the right to talk even when
his words stir people to violence. “A function of
free speech under our system is to invite dispute,”
he said. “It may indeed serve its high purpose
when it induces a condition of unrest,
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Jackson said
“there is danger that it the court does not temper%
its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom,
it will soon convert the Bill of Rights into a sui
cide pact.”
The court’s action, he said, “certainly fulfills
the most extravagant hopes of both right and left
totalitarian groups who want nothing so much as
to paralyze and discredit the only democratic au
thority that can curb them in their bzttle for the
streets.”
But Douglas insisted that ‘“the right to speak
freely . . . is one of the chief distinctions that sets
us apart from totalitarian regimes.” |
The court majority appears to believe we must
keep our basic freedoms untouched, even at risk
of their self-destruction. Implicit in this view lis
the idea that liberty unhampered is healthy
enough to fight off undemocratic notions.
Jackson, on the other hand, seems to feel that
the delicate plant of democracy may some day be
choked off if we allow totalitarian seeds to be
sown in our free soil.
The majority view looks to us the wiser — at
least until it can be shown beyond all doubt that
limiting the freedom of totalitarians will not lead
to shackles on the liberties of all our people,
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One-Track Minds?
It now develops that FBI agents were at the pier
when Gerhart Eisler, German Communist fugitive
from this country, sneaked aboard a Polish ship to
jump $23,500 bail.
The agents were not armed Wwith Dbaskets of
fruit for departing friends. They were watching
for Valentine A. Gubitchev, Soviet engineer
awaiting trial on® espionage charges. They feared
HE might try to leave the country. .
If nothing else, the incident must surely stand
as a tribute to the FBl's singleness of purpose.
America is not finished any more than the auto
mobile is finished. Great advances are always
possible. . . ."There is a big job for young men to
do. Progress is always unfinished in America.—
Benson Ford, vice-president, Ford Motor Co.
1 have a hundred more novels that I would like
to write (but) the business details of my first
book still take all my time. Nobody believes that,
but it is true—Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gond
With the Wind.”
It is apparent to all that’ the United States
economy has been functioning quite well — not
perfectly, by any means, but quite well. For a
number of years, in fact. we have operated at
more than usual capacity, more than our plant
. . . was designed to carry.—Assistant Secretary of
State Willard L. Thorp.
Persistent attempts to put one group of our
society against another for the gain of a selfish
few are creating a dangerous national disunity
which this country can on longer afford.—Charles
E. Wilson, president, General Electric Co.
There is no force in Europe which can stop the
Red army. The United States Air Force and the
atom bomb today is the greatest deterrent to Sov
iet aggression—John Foster Dulles, U. S. dele
gate to UN Security Council. 1
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, QECRGIA,
CAPITOL FACE-LIFTING DELICATE
Architect Carves $5 Million
Compromise Between Old, New
DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)— How
modern can you make an antique?
Kindly, grey David Lynn, Archi
tect of the Capitol, hopes he fin
ally has the answer.
On one side he’s been merciless
ly pressured by a crowd whose
creed is, “Don’t plug up a worm
hole in yonder venerable edifice.”
They would preserve every tobac
co stain and spur mark in the Cap
itol. So what if the roof falls in?
It'll make it more historic than
ever,
On the other side he’s been nag
ged by the brash moderns who
want built-in television lighting,
air conditioning with humidity
control, comfortable seats, fire
proof walls and collapse-proof
roofs.
Since long before the war Lynn
has been pleading with the Con
gressmen to let him make the
Capito]l a safer and more comfort
able place in which to legislate.
The best he could talk them into
has been the reinforcement of the
roofs and ceilings of the Senate
and House chambers with ugly
steel girders.
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But at last they’ve consented to
some improvements. In July, the
workmen will be ready to swarm
all over the place and try to effect
the great compromise between the
antique lovers and the moderns
which Lynn has worked out. It's
planned to do half the job during
this summer’s recess and the other
half next summer. The cost will
be about $5,000,000.
Brand new roofs over both the
Senate and House are the biggest
parts of the project. They will
replace the sagging skylights which
now are the only protection against
rain and sun afforded for the
legislators’ heads. The new roofs
will be reinforced concrete. The
ceilings will mostly be of large
stainless steel plates for the cen
ter sections, with painted plaster
for the sides. Lynn describes part
of it:
~ “In the center of the ceiling will
be introduced an ornamental ro
sette, the field of which will be of
Scabies Caused By Insect Bite;
Spreads With Personal Confact
By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.
Written for NEA Service
During periods of war, scabies
or as it i¢ commonly called, the
seven-year itch, tends to increase.
This disease.is caused by an in
sect — sarcoptes scabiei — which
burrows into the skin causing ter
rific itching and infi tion. |
The disease is more common in |
the colder months, perhaps be
cause bathing is less common. In
the typical case the itching is
worse at night than during the
daytime. Although scabies is more
frequent among those people who
do not practice personal cleanli
ness, it is by no means confined tol
such individuals.
Scabies is acquired from some
one else who harbors the insect
which causes it. Consequently
avoidance of contact with those
who might be involved is the best
method of prevention. Since the
disease tends to invol\{e families
or communities, it is important to
‘treat all of those who may have
the disease and not just the one
who happens to seek the doctor’s
help.
Not only should possible con
tacts be sought out and carefully
examined for the disease, but bed
ding, towels, clothing, and other
articles which touch the skin
§hould be treated, usually by heat
ing.
Many good treatments, some
new, some old, are available. Va
rious sulfur preparations have
been recognized for years as val
uable for this disease. In addi
tion, there have been a number of
new good treatments proposed in
cluding DDT, a chemical called
benzobenzoate, rotenone, pyreth-
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carved shatter-proof glass illumi-]
nated from above so as to furnish
a visible source of direct light.
This light is only for the sake of
appearance. The actual lighting
of the floor will be accomplished
by reflected light from the ceiling,
the source of which will be light
outlets arranged around the peri
meter of the cove.”
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For their own reasons the sena
tors have never permitted a pub
lic address system to be installed
in their chamber. In the remod
eling, however, they have permit
ted Lynn to put in the cables for
one in case they change their
minds.
Lack of a P. A. system some
times makes it difficult for per
sons in the galleries to hear what’s
going on and for the senators to
hear each other. But Lynn hopes
that the new acoustical tile which
will be used to line the gallery and
chamber, and the new squeakproof
seats in the visitors’ gallery, will
help everyone to hear what is be
ing said on the floor.
The present House amplifying
system, it has been said, gives
some members headaches after a
day of particularly heavy debate.
The new one will have small
loudspeakers concealed behind
grilled panels on the walls in
stead of one big one suspended
from the ceili:xg.* .
In addjtion to providing more
comfortable seats in the House,
the seating arrangement will be
improved. Two aisles will be eli
minated, increasing the number of
seats to 448 and bringing the floor
arrangement in more direct view
of the Speaker. Rubber tile will
be put under the rugs on the
floors and fireproof material will
be used in the walls.
Photographers, newsreel and
television men have never been
allowed to work in the Senate
chambr. In the House they have
only been let in for special events,
which involves a lot of costly,
temporary lighting. Lynn says he
plans to put in enough fixtures in
the House to take care of any ex
tra lighting needed for such ou
rum, and others.
Most of these substances, how
ever, can produce secondary irri
tatiton of the skin or other compli
cations, so that their use except
under observation of a physician
is not advised.
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THE DOCTOR ANSWERS
By Edwin P. Jordan, M. D.
QUESTION: What can be done
for water blisters which break out
on the hands or feet every year?
I have tried numerous remedies.
ANSWER: It is dangerous to try
all kinds of medicines on the skin
as you have apparently done. A
proper diagnosis should be ob
tained and only then can the cor
rect treatment be employed.
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wing was completed in 1800, the
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