The Daily Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 96, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1948 Page: 10 of 16
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Sun Slants
Pag# ip—The Daily Sun—Thursday, September 30, 1948
Published each week-day afternoon by
The Daily Sun Company at US West Pear.ce,
’ > Baytown, Texas
tiobert Matherne ...............Publisher
Fred Hartman .... A......................Editor
8yd S. Could .....V......Advertising Manager
Beulah Mae Jackson W...... • Office Manager
Subscription Rates:
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National Representatives: Texas Daily Press League
Entered as second-class matter at the
f Baytown, Texas, post office under the
■.... „
By Fred Hartman
SOCIAL REPORTER
WE WANT TO report on two social events of the
other night where eating was the prime concern.
'Die Faculty Club of Robert E. Lee High School
members and their guests fought barbecue and
mosquitoes for over an hour on the lawn of the
Baytown Community House, with the mosquitoes and
the barbecue finally .losing—but . .not until after a
terrific struggle. • s. ■' .
■ High points of the early part of the evening were
these:„ •
1. President Alvfcra Griffin serving barbecue
sauce wtt^ c'ne hafur.KM western baked beans with
USWTEI7S
Chinese Customs List Really Something
It's Everything From Poison Gas To Illicit Notes
fruman Could Win-And Lose
buzzer. How' ? L don't prefees to know, but after
watqhing her it is easy to understand how she and
Carmel Boudreau can teach Robert E. Lee g-wl* how
,'*to fw*rl four or five batons at the same time.
mains
ocratic column with him—and . still , find report that we prevailed upon the publisher himself
some leaders in congress of the Democratic attend ao 1
Bv HENRY McLEMORE
HONG KONG. China.-When we
leave for Peiping tomorrow we
won’t have any trouble packing or
any worry about overweight lug2
gage.
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Democrats. ' ** ^ \ cool the ardor of a Baytown School teacher intent
There are several anti-Truman members on tossing a ■‘social." "... • • ■ _ __
6t the two houses, many of whom are from c. dutch m okes
southern states where there is great effort it was poetic justice that one of the first men
• Mr Truman with ever to b°y real <*tate hi any quantity in Baytown
underway now to discard Mr. iruman win shou]d win knife Md fork honor8 at the recent
the Thurmond-Wnght ticket. How much dinner of the Baytown r^8i Estate Board. %
favor this ticket will find in the south re- Realising that this battle of napkins would be
to be seen, but there remains the Close, since such double-fisted eaters as Clifford M.
them in. payment for my bill. If IT they won they had all the rJ
hr-won’t --well. I’ll just throw that ^i). take to the market n!-, 1
Old expl sive bomb at him. Cant they lost thfe went faaek toT
take it in with me. anyway. . ' .1 Dack to 1
Whiles here we made a trip to farms and picked some mori
Macoa, a Portuguese colony some was not unusual to.sefe a mAn'l
........... . ... four hours by boat and 25 minutes a wuinun wager one orange J
of the articles Which the Chinese by air from here. It was in a Hong apple, a bunch of grapes, a-jJ|
government forbids a traveller to Kbng-Caeoa plane that the recent age of cigarettes, or two or thl
bring into China proper. Among and disastrous air piracy job was cigars. 1
the things ’ that won’t get past tried. Four Chinese millionaires Knowing that we .cculdn’t J
Chinese customs are pcisonous gas, were aboard and it was the aim o our bircjs skins to Peiping"!
forged bank notes, dies for print- the. pirates, one of whom was a took them along to Mxeoa anil
llftcit pilot! tff flvsf the snijj, "fly tncnr. unfoftiffistcly, vve won
counterfeit Coins, Opium, morphine; rerg litdeftvrayrwnd hold the. mil- wc.bau* hove m> birds’ skunj/*1
!&rf^cp£aine and hvpoderniic needles, lionaircs for ransom. As you know. Pciping-wasn't ori our origt
W. electric flashlights shaped like pis- the plane crashed, killing all but schedule, but so many people I
tots, racing dogs, bird skins, feath-, one passenger. • us that really to see China,
-bred -erground game-hints’ nests,—-Joan- and I, did cur heStEOL tp^mijst Peiping, So lomom
shark fins, combs and brushes, lock like millionaires - when- we were off.
and explosive bombs. made the trip. Neither of
nothing at? all.. To me, it seems that weck- i t 1__i_____ n
i&tjsz ssrrvs- ,rr;“’£ ■ i*H»" Camp
money if he can’t sit in his room world. All citizens gamble every AUSTIN, Sept. 30.^-4T.I9~a
of an evening and print up the spare second fhev have. «A man .—L— ■ -----
next day’s expenditures Kit’s going w
Ground Game Stressed
to be hard to give up that little anything he possesses No matter foolbaI1 rarnp todav ln
Trr,ks»rin^S““ %.•$£? “ .*~*i
*££•72SSSTV ,o **-?“?Js«*■»,
smuggle in the flashlight shaped establishment will match .it. You £,«•«»>. 1"....,.._ar^ ? ■
tenday’s practi(se_s9«slon as he i
S*.‘!“ S?V5S •*•'»»•*
We can report that a darkhorse won. \It wa
party against him. — * other than Cyril (Duteh)Ptacek. When DutehTihally
Here are some examples Of how Demo- finished hi* meal, nearly every waiter at SAS Tor-intn
Aocor+o/l the ailminKtra- »» these
crats in Congress deserted the administra^ inn was on the ropes, as well as those at
Jadnto "FAILING TO REGISTER-
same way" about the birds’ nests match it with a shirt of equal -
and vial of poisonous gas she gave value.
me for my last birthday. As for the The poorer people have gambling The Umvemity of Texas Yq
335 tigiggiL. a jtsz tjrt
to turn them wh^o they risk their farm prod- in a decade, start their fresl
loose on the streets. I am going to ucts. We stood arid watched farm- schedule at ^ Waco. wltlj. a nil
have a talk with the manager of ers wager a basket of vegetables game against the Baylor Cuta]
the hotel and see if he won’t take on the spin of a roulette wheel Oct. IS.- M
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om doing anything but
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of only one‘half, the motion to override the
veto would have fallen short of the neces-
sary two-thirds.
Public housing Seventeen Democratic
From Daily Soli Files
> A Y ’ S HEADLINES: Reds op and with Seaman Sheffield's
by the president. The bill died in the house- a haif-mtmoh doliat outfit when, thqr get tia»u|h \
because the house Republican leadership with an they plan, it will be one of the show spots ^ ■ ■ ■ ' \ » • J ___
felt the same way about public housing as thc citY' but one which the membership deserves K£||*£|P|y CJll briCIQC
« pS c«““f ae Democratic senators* .' [“f B*'““ 11 ctor-cl *” a°'- . '1 7* -
Displaced persons—The president is de- j had to laugh at Rev. a.,l. Jordan^ the pastor. \ By Shephard Barclay
——-i.»j -- *---He told me he wanted to have a meeting of the v
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rated to admit only 100,000 D.P.’s
instead of 200,000. i^J'^O&,O0O figure1 was
acceptedMl«cau^ .two:.thirds. Qf„ the. GQP
senators voted for it
More of the same—Three-fourths of the
Democrats,in the senate and more than one-
half in the house voted with the Republi-
«•*•»*» -*■- «»*<»—a- S" .“St
i and the club 9 was returned
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"thapho'^“W “^“r —---•y5a;ofr*your,pifther'lo mike^ae-^
^ Wn y selected the beart 5. A diamond
iag. Ifeee-fifths of the DemScratic sena-
tors voted with a majority of the Republi-
cans to shelve the Truman-urged St. Law-
rence project. And if 80 per cent of the Dem-
ocrat® instead of only 60 per cent had voted
at that time, I will- jump: from; the spiroof the
building when it’s built ' " *>- \
But for all this levity, Wo ought to be proud of
these Baptists. They arc really going to have some-
.. thing. ' ■ ...... . . .....
if:
cated through your partner’s bids,
it may enable you to steer a safe was tossed from dummy. Bast
course into No Trumps. We A andreturned the
against anti-trust exemption for. certain
railroad practices, the Truman veto of the
bill on that subject wbuld have been sus
tained tetead or bcinR overridden.
More On Living Costs
By Roger Bdbsba
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.Even with victory, it looks as if President; Nai^tay isf^tatto^f^^r^td^Hke Enc^y Jk j:r4
Truman will have his hands full with coii-
greas—unless he carries only partisans in
Looking At Life
No. 2. which is llquor—too many people are tem-
porarily prospering by flirting with these enemies.
PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONEY
The American people tedav have more dollars
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than at any time in our history, nearly $2,300,000,000
—even after taxes have been taken out. That's about
Then emme the diamond A and
K, heart Q for a diamond discard,
diamond 7, 6 and 5. The last was
.led when South also had the
spade J, heart 7 and club 3 oppo-
site dummy's three spades and
the club 6. which was discarded
after West held the club 7 ahd
so had to trash one of his three
spades. That then squeesfd But I
between his three spades and
teart .1. Having , to guard the
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By Erich Brandeis
Oh® OF MY FAVORITE pastimes is to take those
g«mt big human issues about which We hear so
much—and wiil hrar much more between now ahd
November—and reduce them down to their simple
values. -./■:
Labor relations, fdr instance.
You have read and heard many high-sounding
speeches about labor relations. Hie orators use all
sorts of, long words and make it appear that there
is some kind of abracadabra about management and
labor getting along together.
two and one half times as much as they had prtes VulnerabK) -
war. There have been tremendous post-war spuiw West North
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' . , . hmt 7 with the J, hedSwardsd
(Dealer: West North-South a gpade, ^ south finished With
in individual, earning. Pgr capita income in the
United States has increased 130 pe'r .cent, over 1940
levels. Incidentally, folk's in Kansas, the Dakotas,
and the great Northwest have had the greatest
increase in Income.
The trouble is that prices are sq much higher,
more tha^ twice as high and still going Up—that
your dollar and mine now buy less than at any
'VTC
East South
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Pass 44 3R Dbi.
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South reckoned, properly, that
a game for his vulnerable aide
would be worth more points than
about a three-trick doubled set of
his not vulnerable opponents. But
three spade tricks.
Tomorrow’s Problem
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COMPARE ALL that palaver with an advertisement
i just saw M one of toe weekly national magazines.
There are four factors that make toward good
labor relations, the ad say*; I must ask the adver-
tiser what the other three are, but one of them is
washrooms.
For Pete's sake, ycu may.ask. is It that simp.e?
- - Yes, It to. - . • ’ ■ —
^—Good washrooms,- says the ad .make for good
woiWng conditions. Good working conditions make
for good will. Good will makes for labor peace.
Give a man a clean washroom with plenty of hot
water, soap and towels, and you'll have better sat Is-
Bed-workmen-. ■ ——_______,=c_,J
A DARN GOOD ad and a dam good idea.
Of course the aflvertlscr does not Hahn that you
can eliminate strikes and labor trouble by having
alee washrooms mid poor wages,
ft isn’t as simple as ail that.
now out cf reach of the average worker. Yet, this
bad condition wiil continue so long as labor leaders
and politicians are making money from high prices.
DOLLAR AT NEW LOW
ONE HUNDRED Cents today will buy only forty
per cent of the food it purchased pre-war. The post-
war clothing dollar has declined to approximately
fifty per eent of lts pre-War value, A dollar spent
today to keep a roof over your head wiil buy blit
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8!^'£522?l'!^»f *-■» “* -w “ 1,“i!
cars, refrigerators, butter, milk, bread, suits and . WM I
shoes wiil buy only about half the things it bought
in 1940! Inflation is our major national headache
today—ear Public Enemy No. .1.............
The picture today is much the same as it was ACROSS 2. Reclines
after the last war when the dollar was worth only L Bulging
fifty^ cents® in terms of the goods and services jt
ability of a No Trump game until
he heard his partner’s business
doable of Die spades, which'
plugged up tbe only spot in which
ottgpen had net yet been indi-
cated. North's double <# the
spades, in its turn, would have
been impossible except for South’s
show of strength in the double of
3-Hearts.
The declarer, one of the finest
card players in St. Louis. John
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4Dealer: West Both tides vul-
nerable.)
After West «dt r-Club, North
1-Heart and East 2-Clubs, how
would you plan to bid the South
DAILY CROSSWORD
would buy. A study of business cycles shows that
Inflation follows Wars- This is usually characterized
But thc employer who provides clean washrooms
for har employees most likely thinks of them ,ao
hum m boingg
oth^r v
ond wil! do what’s right bv them in
by cheap money and a business boom. But ’(me
business boom usually bnms fttetf out. So. prepara
yourself. A day of reckoning will as surely follow as
doernight the day.
earthen j
5. Growl
9: Shun
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3. Falsehood
4. Annex
5 Glow
10. Kind of beer 6. Spikenard
12 Moved with 7 -RwWttv
P
:s as an employe of one of thc
ns in the world ahd
its executives.
rouble all. around us, but r.ot
I SPENT many-
largest publishin
later became om
There was lab
in our organixati'
There was no such jhing as clasa distinction. I
knew the first name* of hundreds of employes, but
- BjUdn't know their hot games.
IVe were Jim and Mary and Joe and BUI and
Jean to each ether. We all ate our lunches in the
rame restaurants and downstairs there was a lunch
STOP THE BOOM’
THE PRESIDENT and our congress have offend
suhercures to end our present tntlntionary spiral. I
know cf no time in oar history where a major,
price rise was ever halted by politics. High prices are
a pole
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14 Entire
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15 Craze
16. Centimeter
(abbr.1 .
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title
8. Annul
9. Armadillo
11 Corrective
15. Anlmal’a
pelt * --
18. Siilor*
22. Quanttty
of yam »
23. Nuts
24. Eating ^
- away ■
25 Free
26 Muscle
>$aam.
28. Prickly
envelope
of a fruit
30. Removed,
ax bones
31 Goods sunk
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ibux nniiu*
money and as I recently explained—of various laws
Whit* Ropgeveit bad pasafd to force higher prices.
Since 1940-11 the supply of mcnej has outrun the
supply of good*. People have needed or wanted
counter whew the editor-in-ehief often sat on the
stool next to the little copy girl.
Nobody knew how much the other fellow made
and nobody cared. It wasn’t who yeu-were but how
you acted that counted. -
----------If anybody was-rick the whole gang would go
'iss' ** ■*"' ”■ “■
' cdy wga wen psiu, jwcording to his or her
vexation with pay Everybody
nick lean ay. The head of the organize
things short on supply and have had the money, for
the first lime, to buy them. As buyers we have tad
agaiast one -another fbr svsainblc goods. Hence,
prices have acared..
There ere three fundamenUl things which we
can do to help-stop thir inflationary spiral. If high
Prices and mflat.on are the flbplt of (1) a shortage
' ST gcyd- aaiTT2T » Turpluf of money end S) Sew ‘
Deal legislation, then we should <1> increase our
prodactiVSty alcng all fropts. <2» wait awhile for
buying what we can now get along without? and
<S> have congreas repeal the crazy laws it passed
20 Exclamation It. Beam H
of disgust , 20. Pinaceous
21. Swias river twe
22 Female deer
23. American
oSmmbdbre
26 Late
27 Goddess of
with buoy
32. Live
28. Storage
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29 Fish
30 Ornamental
:if i-.es
for shoe*
34 Public notice
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balance in out economy will result
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33. Salt fritem.F
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40. Evening
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