grams designed to increase the in
duslr ul and agricultural produc
tion of those parts of the world
which t >day are in the greates
poverty.”
Where does Wallace expect to
get all these billions? Does he think
they can be picked off the trees or
plucked out of thin air? Where arc
United Nations to get 10 billions
annually for a number of years?
When the hat is passed for dona
tions, it always is the United States
which expected to contribute the
lion’s share. Staggering under :
national debt of more than 2G0 bii
lions now, American taxpayer:
are in no mood to submit to an
other “touch” to finance any world
rehabilitation dream.
Labor Legislation
Will Bring
Labor Conflict
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Walt er
Reuther, CIO united auto workers
president, said today that enact
ment of proposed labor legislation
now before Congress “inevitably’
will cause “industrial conflict.”
Reuther told the Senate labor
9 *
committee that wages have depre
ciated to a point below that re
quired to provide auto industry
workers “with a decent living.”
There is “nothing,” he said, "in
pending legislation which would
give workers a sense of security
or that will avert the industrial
conflict that will inevitably grov.
out of this situation if it is no
corrected.”
Reuther described the measures
' being considered as “punitive and
negative” and said the failing of
all such legislation “is that it at
tacks symptoms rather than re
moves root causes.”
Among specific bills before the
committee, Reuther opposed those
which would outlaw industry-wide
.collective bargaining and the
closed shop; make unions suable in
federal courts; overhaul the Wag
ner labor relations act; prohibit
collection of union dues by the
check-off system; and require
“cooling-off” periods before
strikes.
The UAW chief said “human se
curity is the only basis for econo
mic stability and no legislation of
the sort you are considering, n<
matter how carefully prepared or
well intended, is a substitute for
positive, constructive action that
will remove the causes of insecuri
ty.”
Reuther contended that pending
legislation is “negative" althoug
committee members have said tha
labor itself has failed to cooperate
with Congress and is taking a “de
featist” attitude.
Reuther said that several time1
in the last nine months both he an ’!
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is a veteran, cannot use any part
of her husband’s entitlement un
der the G. I. Bill provisions.
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a thesis while I am in school un
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ment Act?
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whether to a summer camp or for
data for research or thesis, where
the chage to the student is a sep
arate charge not included in the
tuition or laboratory fee customar
ily paid by all students enrolled in
the course.
MECHANICAL MONSTROSITY
OGDEN, Utah i/P)—A motorist
asked deputy county assessor Don
Garner to assess his automobile
for taxation.
But Garner wasn’t able to find
any hint of the proper levy on that
type of car in the tax book.
It had a 1930 Graham body, a
1937 ford frame and a 1946 Mer
cury engine.
TOPIC TIMELY ,
MEMPHIS, Tenn. f/P)—Dr. Carl
H. McCasky of Indiana univers
ity’s school of medicine prepared
to address the mid-South post
graduate medical assembly con
vention Tuesday on “The Signifi
cance of Hoarseness.”
The meeting was interrupted for ,
an announcement. Dr. F. A.
Cooper, secretary of the assembly
would not attend. His trouble:
hoarseness.
President Philip Murray of the
CIO have proposed a national labor
management conference “to work
out a joint, program to overcome
economic and production difficul
*;es in the economy of the nation."
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Britannica I
Celebrates 179
Years Publication
One hundred and seventy-nine
years of continuous publication
will be completed by the Encyclo
paedia Britannica this month, E.j
H. Powell, president of the firm,
announced today. The venerable
reference work is eight years older
than the Declaration of Indepen- j
dence ami 69 years older than the'
city of Chicago where it has been
printed since 1911.
Only 14,000,000 people spoke I
English when the reference work'
first appeared in 1768. Today it!
has a potential audience of more,
than 200,000,000 English-speaking j
people for whom it is written.
First published in Edinburgh,]
Scotland, “by a Society of Gentle- j
men,” the earliest Britannica com- i
prised three volumes issued in 100
pamphlet installments. Its 2.G70 J
pages included 160 full-page an- ]
graved illustrations. In compari-!
son, the 1947 Britannica—24 vol
umes—has more than 17,583 illus
tration and 38,000,000 words.
Between 1768 and 1932, 14 edi
' tions of the Britannica were pub
lished. Then the policy of contin
uous revision was adopted, pro.’id
! ing for review and revision, if
necessary, of every article at least
twice every ten years. Under this
plan, 35,000 new or revised ai tides
have been prepared for the Bri
tannica by 4,000 distinguished con
tributors, and a new printing has
been published every year.
Scott, Hazlitt, Macaulay and
] Swinburne contributed to early ed
itions, and more recent contribu
tors include George Bernard Shaw, i
Nicholas Murray Butler, Alexis]
Carrel, Albert Einstein,* Arthur II
Compton and Harold C. Urey, ul.j
Nobel Prize winners.
Because each edition of the Bri
tannica has summarized the knowl
edge of its time, it has been called
“a yardstick of human progress.”
When the first edition was pub
lished in 1768, California was be
lieved to be “a large country of
the West Indies ... It is uncertain
whether it be a peninsula or an
island.” Amsterdam, Holland, was]
described as a city whose inhab-,
itants “apply themselves with ut-!
most diligence to heap up wealth,1
not with a view to enjoy it, but toj
have the pleasure of dying rich.”
The article on mummies in the,
first edition described their use as
a medicine, but the author pointed
out that “we are not to imagine
that anybody breaks up the real
Egyptian mummies to sell them ir
pieces to the druggists.” He ex
plained how mummy medicine
was made frorp the bodies of ex-1
ecuted criminals and added that
any benefits from the medicine
“seem to be such as depend more i
upon the ingredients used in pre- j
paring the flesh, than in the flesh
[ itself; and it would surely be bet- j
I ter to give those ingredients with
' out so shocking an addition.”
Not a single new edition of the!
Encyclopaedia Britannica has ever
been brought out by an English
firm. All of the first nine editions
were published by Scots. The tenth '
edition was prepared under con- j
tracts owned by Americans and j
all subsequent editions and print- j
ings have been American owned.
In 1920, the Britannica became thr
property of Sears, Roebuck and
Company, which gave it to the
University of Chicago, its present
owner, in 1943.
As an American corporation,
Britannica has produced, in addi
tion to the encyclopaedia, Britan
nica Junior, an encyclopaedia for
NOME HIGH TEAM LEAVE
FOR ANCHORAGE
The Nome High School basket
bull team left this afternoon via
the Alaska Airlines for Anchorage,
where the team will compete in
the All-Alaska tournament being
staged during the Anchorage Fur
Rendezvous this week.
The members of the team are
Walter McCarthy, Harold Bell,
George Bourdon, E. “Bo” Mozee,
W. Ozenna, Edward O’Connor and
Arnout Caste!. Max Beeocrn in
high school teacher, and Bob F vi
mons coach, acompanied the to >m
This is the first time a team of
! the Nome High School has pi :vcd
away from home.
Legal Blanks at The N jgget office
children; the World Atlas and the
annual Book of the Year. Its col
lection of contemporary American
painting is touring the leading art
museums of the United States, and]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films is
now the world’s largest producer
of classroom teaching motion pic
tures. .
Forecasting the company’s plans
I lor 1947 and 194k, Powell said that
1 "Ten Eventful Years,” a four-vol
ume encyclopaedic record of the
' decade from 1937 through 1946, is
now in preparation. A set of Great
Books of the Western World, pre
pared under the editorship of Rob
ert Maynard Hutchins chancellor
on-leave of the University of Chi
cago and chairman of Britannica’s
] board of editors, will be ready in
1948.
Russians Training
Korean Troops
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Lt. Gen.
John R. Ilodge said today that
there appears to be "something to”
reports that the Russians are or
ganizing and training Korean
troops.
The commander of American
occupation forces in southern Ko
ea made this statement to report
ers, in response to questions, after
a White House conference with
.'resident Truman.
He also said that efforts to lift
the Russian "iron curtain" in Ko
rea had been unsuccessful.
The general was accompanied to
tne White House by secretary of
war Robert P. Patterson.
He said he gave President Tru
man an "overall report” on the
situation in Korea.
Asked by reporters how the
Russians were cooperating with
the Americans, he replied:
"There’s no change in the be
havior.” He said the situation was
“no more favorable” today than it
has been right along.
"Then the iron curtain still ex
ists?" a reporter asked. Toe gen
eral replied in the affirmative.
H.idge has just returned from
Korea for consultations with the
war department. It was his first
trip home in five years.
Iron filings spread on magne
tized plane propeller blades reveal
bidden flaws.
Special 21-day excursion
with stop-overs
...on sale through April I, 1947
Yes, on Pan American’s brand-new
travel plan, you can now lly by Clipper to nearly all major
Alaskan cities at bargain prices. At least 25% lower than
regular round-trip fares. You can take 21 days for the
round trip, including stop-overs ... for business, for
visiting and sight-seeing.
Tickets at these bargain fares will be sold up to mid
night, April 1, 1947.. .(or excursion travel to be completed
by April 20. For help in planning your winter excursion
by Flying Clipper, get in touch with Pan American.
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