Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, December 05, 1946, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Labor Eyes Outcome of Miners' Walkout as New Wage Guide; Japs Staging Slow Recovery _____ Released by Western Newspaper Union (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these rolumns ~ Dnl.n’. new. As miners in Johnson City, 111. (lower panel), and other mining communities sat around to await break in coal strike, John L. Lewis (upper left) fenced with government over new contract issue. John O’Leary, UMW vice president, is shown with Lewis. LABOR: New Crisis Once again it was John L. against the government! This time, Washington appeared determined to force a showdown with the burly United Mine Work ers chieftain, but it had its job cut out for it as 400,000 UMW members stood steadfastly by their leader and both the AFL and CIO threw in their support. As in previous UMW walkouts, Lewis held a hand full of aces. Pun ish him as it might try, there were the 400,000 skilled and irreplacable miners who refused to go down into the pits before clarification of the status of their contract; there were approximately 12,000,000 mem bers of organized labor who looked with disfavor upon government use of the injunction to break a strike, and the courts were still to decide the legality of terminating the UMW-government pact. But, encouraged by the country’s overwhelming swing to the right in the recent elections and the possi bility that the courts might decide in his favor in interpreting the legal Coal Mining Red Style From Russia, where the Communist commissariat has its own method of settling labor problems, comes word of the working of a gigantic new coal field in northern Siberia by slave la borers from Lithuania, Estonia, Lat via, Ukraine and Crimea. Consisting mostly of political dissidents, the la borers are housed in wooden barracks and subsist on porridge and 600 grams of bread daily. About }3 mines have been developed in the 5,000 square mile field. aspects of the case, President Tru man was set to push John L. to the limit in his efforts to wring wage and hour concessions from the gov ernment. Under the UMW-government con tract, the miners received $75.25 weekly for a 54-hour week, in con trast to $23.88 weekly for a shorter week in 1939. Lewis’ latest demands were said to call for a 40-hour week with earnings approximating those for 54 hours. Arrival of the latest soft coal crisis saw the government prepared for emergency distribution of bitu minous stocks. Only householders, hospitals, utilities and other essen tial public services were to receive deliveries. Railroads were sched uled to haul only food, clothing, medicine, fuel and other necessi ties and to reduce locomotive pas senger service by 25 per cent. Humming again after the crip pling strikes of last winter, indus try faced another slow-down to con serve fuel supplies and spread them over the period of the walkout. CIO Goal Like the AFL, the CIO watched the coal strike with interest, not only because of the injunction pro ceedings generally condemned by labor but also because Lewis’ ac quisition of new wage concessions promised to blaze the way for boosts all along the line. Meeting in Atlantic City, where States Push Aid for Vet Housing Five states have made multi-mil lion dollar appropriations for emer gency housing this year, with New Jersey the most recent addition to the list, according to the National Association of Housing Officials. New York, California, Connecticut and Ohio have supported housing this year through large legislative appropriations. New York ear marked 35 million dollars last spring John L. formed the CIO 11 years ago, CIO Pres. Philip Murray sounded the battle cry for another round of wage increases by lament ing the rise in prices which offset previous boosts and assailing the uneven distribution of wealth. Seeking to indicate the extent to which recent price rises have crossed out the IBV2 cent an hour wage raise won by the CIO earlier this year, Murray said that steel workers now are earning $13.04 less a week than they did last March. Pointing to the ability of industry to bear higher wages, Murray said that profits in the last quarter of 1946 would total 15 billion dollars com> pared with 10 billions for 1944. JAPAN: On Mend From General MacArthur’s monthly report the U. S. could draw a picture of a vanquished nation struggling to its feet after surviving the effects of total defeat. Suffering from postwar abnormalities itself, the U. S. has none of Nippon’s prob lems of rebuilding a shattered po litical structure, a war-based indus try and a crippled production plant. MacArthur reported: —Passage of a bill providing for election, rather than appointment, of local' officials. —lncreases in production of lum ber, oil, paper and aluminum to off set slumps in iron, steel and coke and, shutdowns in tin, nickel and antimony plants. Arrangements to boost exports to Russia, England and Australia to pay for needed im ports. —Expansion of trade union mem bership to 3,745,000, with 24 per cent being women. —Prospects of improved rice, wheat, potato and barley yields to relieve a severe food shortage, ne-. cessitating substantial imports. HOUSING: New Wrinkle The public received its first good look at the Lustrom corporation’s heralded porcelain enameled steel home in Hinsdale, HI., outside Chi cago, and the showing marked an other step in the battle of the com pany with the Tucker automobile corporation for possession of the huge Dodge-Chicago plant. The battle took a sensational turn with charges of Preston Tucker, the auto magnate, that a prominent Washington attorney had promised to use his influence in having the National Housing authority remand its order turning the Dodge-Chicago plant to Lustrom if given the Tuck er corporation’s legal business plus a stock interest. Named as the at torney, Theodore Granik vigorously denied the allegation. In using its emergency powers to help speed vet housing, the NHA moved to award the huge Dodge- Chicago plant to Lustrom after War Assets administration had leased the facilities to Tucker. In eyeing the Dodge-Chicago plant, Lustrom de clared that it could build 85 of the five-room, radiant heated houses a day six months after going into large-scale output, and 400 a day within 14 months. The houses sell for $7,000. r for statewide housing projects, and more recently authorized low-rent slum clearance projects. A 41 million dollar veterans’ hous ing program was initiated in New Jersey when the recent special ses sion of the state legislature passed measures appropriating 6 million dollars for immediate housing oper ations and providing for a 35 milliojj dollar bond issue. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA CAPITOL HILL: Lobbyists Register Lobbyists have long become a pari of the nation’s capital, but until passage of the registration act re cently the public has enjoyed little knowledge of their identity or worth to the interests they represent. Although lobbyists as a whole have attained a certain notoriety, they exercise the perfectly legiti | mate function of protecting the in terests of their clients by seeking j passage of favorable legislation oi fighting bills considered inimicable, j While recognizing this function, con- I gress also realized the necessity for i placing the business above board | and apprising the public of the in i terests at work in Washington. As the lobbyists registered under | penalty of losing their lobbying rights or incurring fine and impris onment if they failed, Purcell L. Smith, representing the power in terests, emerged as the highest paid, drawing $65,000 a year plus unspec< ified expenses. CHINA: Going Backwards While Japan marched back up the road of recovery, neighboring China remained beset by the political in differences and economic evils that have retarded her progress during this century. As both Nationalist and Commu nist forces prepared for a bloody civil war for supremacy, Chinese cur rency took a terrific nosedive, with the U. S. dollar commanding as high as 5,000 Chinese dollars on the black market. Coal jumped from 350,000 to 450,000 dollars a ton. Housewives scrambled frantically for commodi ties. Throughout the Communist strong hold of northern China and Man churia, Red battalions threw up for tifications and girded for battle as Gen. Peng Teh-hwai predicted stir ring victory over the Nationalist in vading forces. These forces were reported pressing into Shantung province along the Tientsin-Pukow railway. RUSSIA: Struggle for Power From behind the iron curtain came whispers of a mighty tug-of war between top Russian officials mW for driver’s IBT s*l seat when Josef li fIP Stalin passes from i| While Stalin first favored Andrei mmm Zhdanov, 50, chair man of the Soviet ■ ' dSSI man^e succes -9 sion, Georgi M. la Malenkov, 45, has jjfc J||| slowly come to.the Russian policy. Malenkov and Also in the strug- Zhdanov gle for power are Lavrenti P. Beria, head of the dread secret police, and Gen. Nikolai A. Bulganin, vice min ister of armed forces. Despite his prominence in foreign affairs, V. M. Molotov lacks party support for the No. 1 spot. Writing in the French paper, L’Ordre, Claude Vivieres declared that Russian officials are anxious to avoid war during the unsettled state of party affairs to prevent rival nations’ use of bickerings to upset the Communist regime. BUSINESS: Making Money Payments of extra dividends indi cated the general prosperity of American business. $$$ —Goodrich brought payments for 194 G to $4.50 per share by de claring a dividend of. $1 and a spe cial payment of the same amount. $$$ —By authorizing an extra divi dend of $1.25 a share in addition to the quarterly payment of 25 cents, Briggs & Stratton boosted disbursements to $2.25 this year. $$$ —Elgin National Watch com pany declared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share besides making a quarterly payment of 25 cents. sss-—Keystone Steel and Wire company increased its quarterly dividend from 30 to 50 cents and authorized a special payment of 25 cents. $$$ —in declaring a 40 cent divi dend, Homestake Mining company brought payments up to $1.40 for this year after making no disburse ments last year. Meanwhile, the treasury depart ment ordered all corporations to re port on their 1946 tax forms if they paid out at least 70 per cent of their earnings in dividends and reasons I if they did not. In this way, the government hopes to prevent with holding of dividends to scale down stockholders’ income taxes. FARM PRICES: Prices for farm products in Octo ber, 1946, were 154 per cent above the average level in 1935-39, were j 16 per cent higher than the previ ous peak reached in 1920, and were the highest ever recorded up to October. Many observers of price trends predict a break in price levels in the latter part of 1947, with the break coming earlier if various groups ignore present danger sig nals and continue to push for high er prices and incomes. Woman's World ' i Reclaim Khakis and Navy Blues For Making Wearing Apparel Js'i/ ta . ifa liif that many boys have marched home from overseas service, many a homemaker has be gun to wonder about the possibility of using those wonderful khaki and navy blue clothes for something useful. It’s very true that the fab ric in these clothes is much too good to be shut up in mothproof bags or closets. They can be converted into excellent civilian wearing ap parel. The main problem in using cloth ing of this type is to really change the appearance, and experience proves that it can be done. Sad colored olive drab can actually be dyed so you won’t know the origin. And as for navy blue, it’s a good substantial color which you prob ably won’t change, especially if you change the style of the garment sufficiently. If you’ve had a WAVE in the family, then you’ll be surprised how beautifully her navy blue suit al ters into something very attractive. If the girl herself is using the suit, it probably won’t need much alter ation in fitting. Remove the in signia, and add some bright red braid around the shoulders and sleeves, or run the braiding all around the bustline in several rows, and you’ll be surprised at how nicely the garment reconverts. It’s only natural that you might hesitate at dyeing the heavy olive drab garments but it really can be done. Wool Dyeing Requires Simmering Temperature The important points to remem ber when dyeing woolens can be summarized in five steps. These are particularly applicable when you are dyeing such things as cx-serv ice clothing. 1. Measure the garment before dyeing or draw its outline on a large sheet of paper for measur ing purposes. Convert service uniforms . . . 2. Make sure you have enough dye tor the quantity of fabric you are lyeing. Because of their heavy weight woolens require more dye per irard than cottons or rayons. 3. Use a simmering temperature all during the dyeing period. Use a large enough vessel for the pur pose so that you can stir the gar ment gently in its dye bath. Avoid rough treatment as this makes the garment shrink. 4. Remember that wools appear much darker when wet than when iry. Test a small strip of fabric ay ironing dry to make sure you have the shade desired. 5. When you are satisfied with the color, rinse the garment thor oughly. Then stretch it to its origi aal proportions, using the pencilled sgure or measurements mentioned above. Iron the woolens while they are just barely damp. Of course you jnderstand this has to be done with a pressing cloth or the v/00l will develop an ugly shine. If the gar ment has not stretched to its prop er shape, it can be stretched even more while you are pressing the labric. Into fashionable clothing. While dyeing will cause some shrinkage, the most shrinkage you can expect of a properly treated gar ment should not exceed three-quar ters of an inch. It can certainly De a lot less if you give the garment most gentle treatment. If you’ve been following fashion news lately, you know that the hip length boxy jacket is one of the Fa sh ion Fla sh es Soft gray wool is another fashion favorite and is a wonderful neutral that you can use with gay accepts of color. Green of course is very pop alar and so is magenta. Want to give gloves a lift? Sew oands of contrasting colored materi al on the cuffs or make them glit ter with sequins that highlight the colors of your costume. Winter Bride Lace combined with cream-col ored satin is made by a New York designer for a winter bridal gown. This gown features a low neckline and closely fitted bodice. very smartest things to own. The wonderful quality of service over coats is excellent material to use for them. Reclaim Those Overcoats For Smart, Boxy Jackets Incidentally, you won’t want the coat an olive drab. Dye it one of the following beautiful colors: navy blue, dark green, jade green, scar let, cardinal red, dark brown or black. Dyeing will be much easier if the coat is first ripped at the seams. This makes it less bulky to handle in the dye bath. And incidentally, once the ripping is done, a big job is out of the way and you can begin sewing so much sooner. Use a pattern for cutting the coat down to your measurements and have it just as square and boxy as possible with trim shoulder lines. A double breasted model with large pearl buttons will look very up-to the-minute. If you don’t want a collar on the coat, then have it collarless, button ing up high. Make slit or diag onal pockets, and plan to wear it with a gay scarf and a snappy little hat. The cost for an outfit of this type is under five dollars, and you’ll have both warmth and wear from the outfit. Braided Rugs You can do a lot to make your home more attractive with braid ed rugs, provided you use gay colors and good patterns. There’s a definite place in the bedroom, den, dressing room and chil dren’s play room for charming braided rugs. Nothing is too small or too large to use for rug making. Here is a list of some worn-out things that are often used: worn draperies, bedspreads, blankets, tablecloths, coats, trousers, for mals, pleated and gathered skirts. You can even use towels, napkins, aprons, blouses and stockings. Don’t forget to shop for inexpensive remnants at bar gain prices, too! For a rug that will please you when finished, work out a plan ahead of time and shape it with crayons. Then select material, dye it, if necessary, in accord ance with the plan. Before you cut the fabric, write down the number of rows you will need of each color. Colors in a braided rug should give a feeling of unity. Keep large areas quiet in their effect, and keep colors balanced by re peating them with discrimina tion. Braids may be made of any where from three to eight strips, but the number of strips does not complicate the braiding proc ess. Skirts seem somewhat shorter, but knees are still being kept cov ered. Probably this trend has reached its limit. Femininity and gayness of mood are apparent in informal clothes. Raglan sleeves and dropped shoul der lines are still very popular, and bits of velvet or fur add a long ab sent luxury note to many clothes. mwwwwwwm ,. ._ _ . rr . wmwwwmm* IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. OS The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson lor December 8 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PAUL ADMONISHES THE CHURCHES LESSON TEXT—I Corinthians 11:20-27; I Romans 111:13, 14; Ephesians 5:18-21, memory SELECTION—Let us walk hon estly. as in the day.—Romans 13:13. 1 Temperance is readily taught j from the epistles of Paul for he was constantly moved by the Holy Spirit to exhort the churches and individ ual Christians to a careful and worthy walk before God. In doing so he was not afraid to speak plainly about the use of in toxicants. Perhaps his brethren in the ministry today should consider him and take courage. Our lesson is a temperance lesson, and since some twist that word “temperance” to fit almost any kind of indulgence, we should like to quote a careful evaluation of it by Dr. W. R. White: “Temperance is a seriously mis understood word. The best definition we know defines it as abstaining from that which is harmful, and using moderately that which is legit imate. We would not advise a man to be moderate in teasing a rattle snake. We would not tell him that it is all right to steal, lie or commit adultery just so he is temperate about it. We would not tell a man to use dope moderately. . . . We could tell a man to be moderate about eating meat or any other wholesome thing.” The only way to be temperate about liquor is to let it alone! I. The Wrong Way and the Right Way—in the Church (I Cor. 11:20- 27). There were a number of disorder ly things about the Corinthian church which needed correction. One of these concerned the Lord’s Sup per. A time which should have giv en them a blessed unity in fellow ship and love had become just the opposite. It was their custom to eat a so called love feast before the sacra ment, and instead of making it a time of loving and sharing, the rich ate their sumptuous meals and let a poor brother gnaw on a crust of bread. Then feasting led, as It so often does, to excesses. Some became drunken on the wine and even par took of the Lord’s Supper while in toxicated. We are not so much concerned with the Lord’s Supper in this les son as we are with the behavior of those who attended. Think of com ing to the holy table drunk! It seems impossible, and yet it hap pened. Do we not still let the poor in our midst shift pretty well for them selves? The rich flaunt their affluence and let the poor get along on their crust of bread. The church needs to renew its scriptural appreciation of what fellowship and communion really means. 11. The Wrong Way and the Right Way—in the Community (Rom. 13: 13, 14). This chapter of the epistle to the Romans concerns the right behavior of the believer in his civic relation ships. He is a citizen of heaven, but he is also a citizen of the com munity in which he lives. The use of intoxicants which a generation ago was a shameful thing is now generally accepted. The home in which liquor was served was a disgrace; now “cocktail” is one of the first words children learn. What is the explanation? Is liquor any less destructive and demoral izing? Certainly not! Is it then true that people are more candid and open about what they do? No, it is rather that moral standards have slipped to the point where they are no longer ashamed when they should be, if they thought straight! Along with the liquor go all the things enumerated in verse 13. Oh, the awful depth of sex degradation, of plain ordinary indecency and dis honesty, of strife and envy. It is not a nice picture, but it is true. The right way is found in verse 14. It was reading these two verses in his mother’s open Bible that led Augustine to Christ. He saw and took the right way. Will others do likewise? 111. The Wrong Way and the Right Way— in the Heart (Eph. 5:18-21). This is a personal matter. The man or woman who finds satisfac tion in wine wants the overcoming power of the narcotic influence to take away the sense of responsibil ity for life. It is a weak and hope less way to avoid facing reality. The right way is to let the Holy Spirit take full control of the heart and life. This is to be an experience of complete surrender, being “filled with the Spirit.” Does life then become drab and uninteresting? No, indeed! For the first time you will be really joyful. That inevitably leads to thankful ness, a grace too little known and practiced. It is for all things at all i times. Do not overlook that fact. Then too there will be a delightful attitude of consideration and re spect for one another (v. 21) and of devotion to God.