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ENNIS DAILY NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY EVENING, OCT. 3, 1946
Editorials
The Ennis Daily News
Opinions
Features
o
Amusements
In FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
Telephon 44
213 N. Dallas St.
Published daily except Sunday by the United
'ublishlng Co., Inc., which also publishes The Ennis
Weekly Local and* The Palmer Rustler.
Washington.—It will probably be denied,
but Vice Adm. Wm. H. P. Blandy and sev-
eral of his top associates are boiling mad at
the cancellation of the third atomic bomb
test.
This was the test which the scientists pre-
dicted would really show the world the true!
power of the A-bomb, and which would have
shown modern navies to be completely
obsolete.
Unfortunately the reports of the colossal
damage dene by the first and second bombs
were only made public piecemeal, days after j
the explosion took place, so that the public |
never got- a clear picture of the fantastic
destruction, caused by the bomb.
Admiral Blandy and his aides have now
made a confidential report which shows
that more than half the men who would
have been aboard the Bikini fleet would
have-been instantly killed; while more than
Another Housiiig Problem
Entered as second class matter at the post office
it Ennis, Texas, under the Act of Congress ol
Mtarch 3. 1879.
R. W NOWLIN ---------------Editor and Manager
All communications df business and items of
aews should be addressed to the company, and not
■o Individuals.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
By Carrier in City
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Three Months ______________________________ $2.2§
Six Months $4.50
One Year __ __________________ $9.0R
, SPECIAL FARM RATES
By Mail in Ellis County
'ne Year $4.50
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Same rates as in city by carrier
Any erroneous reflections upon the character,
anding or reputation of any person, firm or corp-,
-ration which may appear in the columns of the’ 60 Per cen;'<? of the survivors would have been
?„3JU!nb^gladlL,a;n<i.dul7( corrects “P™ being, permanently disabled or died of wounds
•rought to the publisher’s attention. ilt_ q TT ,
___ I iest , No. 3—Underwater—would have been
even tnore horrible. That is why men like
Blaudy who have been doing everything
pt/ssible to educate the public to the truth
About atomic energy are-now pretty well
disgusted. One example of the mistaken
conclusions which the public got as a result
of bombs No, 1 and 2 is the case of “Pig 311 ”
“Pig 311“ is the porker supposed to have
been, placed aboard ship near the center of
the- explosion to demonstrate the effective-
ness of bomb radiation on humans. After
the second test it was reported that “Pig
311’ had been hurled into the water by the
explosion, had swum around 36 hours, and
managed to survive with no sign of illness.
Scientists who checked this story, how-
ever, discovered that “Pig 311” had never
been near the explosion and the incident
The News stands for and pledges to
support all things for the good of Ennis
and Ellis County.
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
God has taught humanity by example,
and that is the way we may influence
humanity most: The word became flesh
and dwelt among us * * * Full of grace
anod truth.—John 1:14.
-Q-
FINAL USO CAMPAIGN
Ellis Countians are being asked this week
to again contribute to the USO, the
ganization that did so much toward mitigat-
ing the suffering and hardships of war
among our own fighting men and women as
well as the civilians of overrun countries.
This campaign, we are told, will be the last
one.
Ellis County has been given a quota of
$6-500. of which Ennis’ part is $1 500 This
Quota is several times less than was' raised
m the last campaign. No difficultv is anti-
cipated bv those selected to conduct the
campaigns in raising the county’s full auota
There probably are some who feel that the
need for the USO expired with the end of
the war. This is not the case. The demands
made upon the USO now are not as great
as during, hostilities, but the need is jiust as
great. There is still suffering and those who
need help. (fWe cannot fail to finish the
work that was so nobly begun and so ef-
ficiently executed in the time of world
crisis.
A small contribution from each citizen who
is able to pay will finish the job and keep
Ellis County’s record for services during the
war one hundred per cent good.
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THE FRUITS OF SOCIALISM
Socialism despite all of the vociferous
claims of its advocates—produces nothing of
itself. England today is a good example of
that truism.
-The Labor government came to power on
a platform pledging eventual socialization
of all basic resources. As its first step, it
promptly socialized the coal industry, which
had long been a trouble spot in the British
economy. But, to the enormous disappoint-
ment of the true believers, no miracle oc-
curred. Coal production has not been in-
creased—to the contrary, it has tended to
decline. The workers are no happier than
before—in fact, they seem even more dis-
gruntled. Their lot has not been improved
in any way, and there is no prospect of bet-
tering it in the foreseeable future. And they
cah’t do anything about it—because the
British coal industry is now the same thing
as*, the British government.
Here in the United States we have tem-
porarily socialized our coal industry. The
mines, which were seized by ‘presidential
proclamation during the strike, have not
been, returned to their owners. These owners
are the forgotten men when it com.es to
negotiations—Mr. Lewis’ union and the gov-
ernment make all the decisions. One
wonders what thoughtful workers think of
this. Have they forgotten that socialism, in
various forms, has destroyed the freedom of
labor in Germany, Italy and Russia?
Workers can force industry to negotiate.
But no one can force government to ne-
gotiate if it doesn’t want to—unless we are
to have absolute anarchy. Labor can, if it
desires, do much to destroy free enterprise
—but it should realize that it will destroy
free labor with it.
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or“ | had not occurred.
It never leaked out but when. Admiral
Blandy was about to hold a press conference
aboard the USS Burleson which brought the
surviving animals of the Bikini test back to
Washington, an aide suggested that Blandy
pose with “Pig; 311” as evidence that the
porker survived the terrors of the a-bomb.
“I will not be a party to any such hoax,”
replied Blandy, angrily. “We all know that
Tig 311’ never left this boat.’’
In the press conference which followed,
“Pig 311” was not mentioned.
Real fact is that Blandy and his aides
wish their superiors shared their realization
of the a-bomb’s devastating power.
Note The bombs used at Bikini are mere
beanbags alongside future bombs capable
of destroying a hundred-square-miles area.
McKellar’s Budget Balancing
„ Senator Kenneth McKellar’s conference
with President Truman on flood-control
spending wasn’t as congenial—or as fruit-
ful as the gentleman from Tennessee in-
timated to the press.
Truman promised to “review” his ex-
ecutive order, under the war powers act, by
which he slashed the $500,000,000 ap
piopriation for rivers and harbors and flood
control by two-thirds. This “promise” was
largely a face-saver for McKellar, so he
wouldn’t have to tell the newsmen that he
had been turned down cold in his efforts to
get the order rescinded.
Actually,, he was turned down cold. Fur-
thermore, he caught an indirect lecture
from the president for preaching economy
for others while raiding the treasury him-
self.
Plainly irritated by demands from the
Tennessee senator and several members of
congress who accompanied him that the
anti-pork-barrel order be rescinded, Truman
said :
Several of you have been after me at one
time or another to balance the budget, but
when I begin doing it—as in this case—you
step on my toes.” -
As an afterthought, Truman added that
those who were most vocal about balancing
the burget usually wanted it balanced in
some other state.
MicKeliar’s Blushes
WASHINGTON COLUMN
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
W/’ASHINGTON, D. C.— (NEA)—The rash of congressional investi-
v gations now breaking out is probably a healthy thing. Following
the rotten disclosures in the May-Garsson case, half a dozen other
ham acts are getting a smearing. Shipbuilding profits, surplus prop-
erty disposal, Senate and House election compaigns,
the “dead horse” Canol, the Pan-American high-
way and Hawaiian construction scandals all are
under investigation.
But some place in the proceedings, somebody
ought to get up before one of these committees and
tell ’em what Charlie Dawes told similar investiga-
tors 25 years ago, “Hell and Maria! We had a
war to win.”
General Dawes had been called to Washington
for testimony because he had been on Pershing’s
staff, in command of Service of Supply. He spoke
_^ out in words that everyone could understand, to
the effect that war in itself is wasteful and that
all the penny-pinching accounting of peacetime economy couldn’t be
practiced when men were being killed and time was more important
to save,than money.
Industrialist Henry Kaiser had a golden opportunity to speak a
piece of this kind in his appearances before the House Merchant Ma-
rine and Fisheries Committee, but,.unfortunately, he blew his top and
his lines. Ther'eby he failed to straighten out some of the lame-brain
thinking these committees indulge in.
'U'OR instance. The House Merchant Marine Committee jumped on
■the shipbuilders for their so-called “excessive” profits.
The idea behind this v^oole investigation seems to be that it’s wicked
for the government to allow good profits, even though it saves money
by so. doing. That’s utter and errant nonsense. Kaiser received a
5 per cent profit, on each Liberty ship his Oregon yard turned out—•
but in return he built the ships at< low cost and in record time.
Another fuzzy philosophy presented by this investigation has been
the idea that it was wrong for shipbuilders to make much money be-
cause they didn’t have a high capital investment risk of their own
money tied up in the shipyards.
'T'HAT’S cockeyed because the government built the yards, paid for
them and owned them outright. This being the case, the rules of
normal capitalism can’t be applied as a yardstick to measure profits
as a percentage of investment.
The shipbuilders on this deal weren’t capitalists, but hired men.
They were hired by the government, as contractors, to do a job for
other people—the government—using the government’s materials,
tools and money. The contractors’ earnings weren’t profits on in-
vested capital, but fees paid for .work done, with bonuses for speed
and economy.
To argue that the fees may have been too high is one thing. But
to argue that the fees were too high in relation to capital investment
is to confuse the issue completely. _________
The more than $90,000,000 now beine: paid
bv the government monthly , in compensation
and pensions to veterans of past'wars is the
best argument that could be offered aaainst
another war. It will require one hundred
years of peace to get caught up with present
obligations.
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I WORTH REMEMBERING |
A determinate purpose in life and a steady
adhesion to it through all disadvantages;
are indispensable conditions to success.—
W. M. Ponshon. ’
Obviously the president had in mind a
recent speech in which McKellar rapped
him for the order blocking the rivers-and-
harbors pork grab and challenged his right
to issue the order.
The Tennesseean flushed as he listened to
this lecture and looked for a moment as if
he had been beaned with a croquet mallet.
When he got his tongue into gear again, he
i sputtered something about being “heartily
in accord” with balancing the budget.
He added, however, that the rivers-and-
harbors project shouldn’t be docked more
than its proportionate share.
Truman made no promises about voiding
his order, except to say that he would be
glad to “review” it. He repeated that it was
necessary to balance the budget, partly be-
cause of its effect in maintaining the high
prestige the United States enjoys among
other nations.
If the job had to be done at the expense
of rivers and harbors, he was prepared to do
it, he said, despite the bricks that might be
thrown at him.
“The president usually has to take the
bricks,’’ he concluded, “and I can take them.”
Note The White House eventually may
make some slight concessions on certain
reclamation projects which the budget
bureau now admits were cut too sharply
but that’s all.
Q—Where and when were the
last Olympic games held?
A—In Berlin, in 1936.
Q—Has any U.S. President ever
been impeached?
A—No. Andrew Johnson was
charged, tried and acquitted in
1863.
★ © EDITORIALS .. By James Thrasher
STALIN’S CHANGE OF ATTITUDE
Wc had been wondering, ever since Prime Minister
Stalin answered those questions for The Sunday Times ofj
London’s correspondent, just what had happened in recent
months to change the Soviet leader’s attitude.
It seemed only yesterday that he was warning his peo-
ple of capitalist encirclement and the inevitability of war.
It seemed even, more recent—in fact, it was the same day
that Mr. Stalin’s interview was made public—that Andrei
Gromyko was accusing the United States of threatening
world peace by keeping troops in China, Iceland, Brazil
and Panama.
Yet here was Mr. Stalin saying that there was no realj --
danger of a “new war.” Here was Mr. Stalin denying that! Q—Who was the man who at-
Britain and the United States could create a capitalist en- **“g**J? .as“*T_te Franldin
circlement of the Soviet Union even if they wanted to- D' EboeCTelt m
which he wasn’t sure they did. Here he was saying that
Russia didn’t intend to use Germany as an instrument of
ambition against the West and that “communism in one
country” and Big Three co-operation were possible.
Why the change? The same mood of intransigence, tended for Roosevelt,
suspicion and mutual accusation seemed to possess the
Paris conference and the Security Council. The wishes of
smaller nations seemed ignored, and the differences among
the major powers stood forth more sharply as a result.
Yet there was one difference. That was in the attitude
of Secretary of State Byrnes. Since last May, when Mr.
Stalin warned his people of inevitable war, the American
minister had exchanged his role of compromiser for a
more adamant part. It is this change that called forth
Henry Wallace’s renunciation and precitated the recent
cabinet crisis. It is a change which, presumably, many
Americans disapprove.
But how else is Mr. Stalin’s change of attitude to be ex-
plained? The easiest explanation is to say that, on the
recent day of conflicting statements, Mr. Salin was talking
through his own hat, not Mr. Gromyko’s.
To say that, however, is to go against logic and past per-
formance and insist that Mr. Stalin’s own pronouncements
are not the key to Russian policy. It is more sensible to
admit that the Prime Minister’s words carry more weight
than either Mr. Gromyko’s or Mr. Molotov’s, and to note
that since his recent interview had wide circulation
throughout the Soviet Union as well as the rest of the
world, it is possible that Mr. Stalin was giving his pe^he
a new, predigested, compulsory line of thought.
BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
A RAILROAD crossing flagman/
in Ohio quit his job to become j
an undertaker. Our guess is that
he got his inspiration from careless
I people.
* *
' We know that meat is under
] the ceiling—and we have a
j hunch some of it is undeY the,
counter.
j
Lives there a man with clothes
so worn who never to himself doth
mourn, this is my own, my only
suit?
* * *
Careless people have no li-
cence to hunt even if they’ve
bought one., *
A—Joseph Zangara, Italian-born
anarchist. He was electroc. ted
March 20, 193!2i, for the murder of
Chicago’s Mayor Anton J. Cerma'x,
who was killed by the bullet in-
Q—What is absolute zero?
A—The point at which, theo-
retically, all molecular action
ceases—459.6 degrees below Fah-
renheit zero.
Swedish scientists have devel-
oped a new anti-tuberculosis rem-#
edy based on the cultivation of the
pyocanic. bacillus. It has been
widely tested with good results;
These days of shortages, it takes
not only two, but too many to
make a bargain.
$40.00 per acre for- 240 acre
farm. Nice six room dwelling',
good barn, new stock fence,
plenty grass and water. Gas
and electricity available.
JOE C. McCRARY, Agent
Insurance—Real Estate
Office Ph. 80 - Res. 742W
OFFERS CAR/ FOR STEAK,
TICKETS AND $1,000
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a local newspaper;
“For Fale — Small automo-
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worn out and in need of re-
pairs; parts unobtainable; this
is undoubtedly the slowest
moving and hardest riding car
on the market; very reliable
and runs well; would suit some
smart aleck who thinks he
knows all the- -answers; my ,
ceiling price $1,009 and 10
pounds of tenderloin and tick-
ets to the Army-Navy football
game. E. C. TAYLCIFj, 17 Ash-
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—Without the tenderloin and the
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THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Shirley Hammerle, left, and Helen Bodnar, show comparative size
of 300-gallon,- stainless steel kettle. The huge pot, used for cook-
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Nowlin, R. W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 235, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1946, newspaper, October 3, 1946; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth782320/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.