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Wednesday, November 21, 1945
STRIKES INTERFERE WITH RECONVERSION
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Mr. Bernard Baruch, advisor to many Presidents on
economic problems and an acknowledged and respected
authority in that field, has written a thoughtful and
challenging letter to Representative Gore of Tennessee,
regarding the growing and disastrous interference with
the postwar reconversion program attributable to
strikes.
Commenting upon the essential relationship between
American prosperity and freedom and peace on one
hand and maximum industrial production on the other,
Mr. Baruch said:
“Without it (full production) we cannot keep any
semblance of modern, civilized government.
“We ask inflation.
“We mute the voice with which we speak for peace
in this world.’’
The issue before the country in this respect, said Mr.
Baruch, is simply that:
“Labor disputes cannot continue to interfere with
production as they do.
“In our civilization, where people are induced to buy
things and to make them a part of their daily lives, a
deep obligation rests on management and labor to fill
those needs."
Mr. Baruch acknowledged that he once "had high
hopes of collective bargaining and intelligent leader
ship in management and labor to bring about under
standing without interference by government.”
But he warns that there is now such strife in the land,
occasioned by the violence of the struggle between man
agement and labor and wholly unmitigated by futile
measures of collective bargaining, that full production
is impossible—and that consequently not only our pros
perity, but our security and peace and our very liber
ties, are in jeopardy.
“Unless strife ceases soon,” he earnestly admonishes,
“government must take a hand, and a strong one, in the
interest of the contestants, the public and itself.”
Only the miracle of American production can save
the situation now, he urged, in peace as it did in war—
but if the nation is to perform that miracle, it must
hurry.
The admonitions of Mr. Baruch are authoritative, and
timely.
The American people have two great aspirations for
the immediate future, one being to secure their own
prosperity and peace and freedom, and the other being
to promote the same conditions of life in other countries.
Ruinous and unnecessary strikes are rendering the
American people impotent for the attainment of these
objectives, and of course the first duty of the country is
to stop and prevent strikes and the strife attending
them.
But even after this is done, Mr. Baruch counseled, the
country has still another duty.
When we have restored full American production by
the elimination of indusrtial strife, he said, we must
make sure that the share of this production we make
available to other countries is not used by them to de
stroy our productive system.
“We must be careful when we give aid to other coun
tries,” he wrote to Representative Gore, “that this aid
is not used to nationalize their industries against us, to
destroy our own competitive system.
“England, Czechoslovakia, France and other coun
tries are nationalizing or are about to nationalize their
industries.
“Russia has totalized herself—one buyer and one sel
ler—and is totalizing all countries coming under her
aegis.”
The advice of Mr. Baruch is sound.
The duties of the American people are clear.
There must be national action according to this good
1 advice, for only thus can there be national attainment of
the good aspirations of the American people.
COINCIDENCE?
i
Two days after the foregoing editorial appeared in
the columns of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the Typo
graphical Union went on strike.
Last Sunday evening the printers failed to show up
for work in all the newspapers in Seattle, so that all
Seattle daily newspapers were forced to suspend oper
ation.
The Union demands an increase of 28 per cent in
crease in wages.
According to the most reliable information, the print
ers in Seattle receive the highest hourly wage in the
trade, on the Pacific Coast, and compares favorably
with any city of the United States.
We may not have the full picture, but it seems that
the public has suffered more discomfort and been more
displeased on account of strikes, than on account of
wartime restrictions.
SACRED COWS ARE DOOMED TO GO
(Elsie N. Danenberg in The Milwaukee Journal)
The greatest crisis of the times will grip Delhi, India,
when that city’s provincial planning commission, head
ed by British Maj. Gray D. Dorsett, principal planning
officer, announces that sacred cows are doomed to go.
No longer will these animals be allowed to roam at
will through the streets.
The cow is the most sacred of all animals to the Hin
dus. It must not be killed. It must not be eaten.
India’s agricultural economy is built around the cow.
It gives milk, its dung is used as fuel and manure and
its male offspring, when castrated, draw the carts and
heavy wagons and plow the fields. To the villager the
cow is a symbol of prosperity, of life giving bounty.
In no corner of the world does the cow receive so
much homage yet give so niggardly a return. One-third
of all the world’s cattle are in India, yet 70% of the cows
don’t give milk.
Dorsett’s idea is to take these cows, some of which
are owned individually and some by groups of Indians,
and put them to pasture outside the city. Pasteurization
of the milk would be the next step.
Another angle to the problem of gaining the co-opera
tion of the people on the plan to incarcerate the cows is
the question of fuel.
At the present time, the cow dung is collected by the
natives, formed into cakes, slapped onto hot stones or
pavements and dried in the sun.
The Delhi province planning commission wants to
use this dung to fertilize India’s thin soil. But the peo-1
pie will not want to give up their favorite fuel.
It will be necessary to educate them to the acceptance
of a new burner, either coal or wood, the cost of which
would have to be subsidized by the British government,
for they could afford neither.
IS HE A HITTER .
OR A FARMER?
SALT LAKE CITY — (JP) —A
baseball yam from ’’’obby Coltrin,
scout for the Phil'’ 'elphia Phil
rows.
An old former r*!o -*r told Col
trin there was a "ming hot
prospect in the ne* t vvn.
“Can he hit!” sai 1 * old-timer.
“Yesterday, the pi* %r fires one
over his head and fside, and
I
this kid slams the ball 40 corn•
ows.
“The next time up, he hits a
high, inside pitch, right off his
chin, and it would have dragged I
the second baseman to the fence
if he’d gotten in its way.
“The third time un ’•'e catches
a low, outside pitch -md belts it!
60 corn rows.”
“Yeah,” Coltrin interrupted,
“but how about low and inside
pitches?”
HOLLYWOOD
STAR-LITES
By CHUCK COCHARn
1 HOLLYWOOD—In t^e o'd <
| ehild stars were usually drop
, from pictures when they reat
the “awkward age.”
Even Shirley Temple “retii
when she reached that age
didn’t return until she had reat
1 her beautiful teens. . . . Virg
j Weidler is another. . . . But s
child stars have beaten the j
and have grown up in pict
without missing a bet.
Bonita Granville is one of t!
• • • Bonita, or “Bonnie” as
call her, played kid “brats” i
she was hated thoroughly f
Tampa to Timbuctoo. . . . She
a homely little lass, and it
freely said when she got ou
the “brat” roles she would
through . . . But Bonnie fo
them—she has gone through
period—and in the mean'
growing into a very gorgi
young lady, and still bigger 1
ever with her film fans.
There have been others
have beaten “the jinx” and \
right on with their careers ,
Deanna Durbin is another . .
is not easy to make the transi
from the shy little girl of “T
Smart Girls” to the sophistic
“Lady on the Train”—Deanna
it successfully.
Judy Garland and Mil
Rooney were others who
right on through the “awk\
period” and have come out on
Not every movie star splu
his every cent as fast as he
make it . . . Gary Cooper, sai
have a million or two salted a
for a rainy day, was down tc
last loaf of bread just befor
got his first job as a movie e:
But “Coop” was caut:ous the
now. . . . He had to keep hi<
turn ticket to Montana—jus
case—and he still has it.
Five current lovelies of
screen are proving it pays t
bad—at least on the screen
These five beauties got their
grip on the ladder of succes
portraying bad girls, or by t
a little out of line biologicall
their roles . . . And all of 1
are doing O.K. right now.
They are: Ida Lupino,
nlayed the little tramp in '
Light That Failed”; Bette D
whose vicious slavey in “Of
man Bondage” got her into
Academy class; Myrna Loy, w
corrosive character in “Ar
Kingdom” brought starring r
Bonita Granville, the insuffei
child monster in “These Th
and Hedy Lamarr whose
lack of costume in one seqt
of “Ecstasy” had the picture
ned hither and yon.
What amazing things r
have happened in Hollywoo
the fact that Clark Gable los
first film job because “His
Were Too Big”—-that G<
Brent and Humphrey Bogart
dropped by contract holders
cause “they weren’t convincii
western ‘dray-ma’,” — and
Bette Davis once collected
blue slip” from a major s
“because she had no sex app
It could happen only in m
land!
on’t miss “Anchors Aweif
the best musical of this or
other year . . . Gene Kelly is
rific ... Take the entire famil
Frankie boy really comes thi
with a neat job of acting.