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ENNIS DAILY NEWS, ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 22, 1946
Editorials
Opinions
Features
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The Ennis Daily News
In FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
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* RTBI F THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The Prodigal Son in the parable had a
brother who was a selfish cad. Do we
want to see others suffer the last
penalty for their sins while we escape
punishment for envy and selfishness and
self-righteousness? But it was meet to
make merry and be glad; for this thy
brother was dead and is alive again, and
was lost and is found.—Luke 15:32.
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THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
Washington.—One of the amazing things
about John L. Lewis is the coal miners’ cur- [
rent loyalty despite Lewis’ tyrannical rule [
and despite the fact that he has waged bit- j
ter, relentless war against mine groups which!
dared question his authority.
One case was his ouster of John L. Lawson,
hero of the Colorado miners, as described
in an earlier column. More recent and much
bloodier was Lewis’ battle with the progres-
sive mine workers which ended with 21
Illinois miners killed, several hundred shot!
and thousands beaten.
Most significant revelation of all is the I
fact that Lewis on occasion has spent as!
much as $350,000 of miners’ dues without!
their permission or advance knowledge to j
pay a coal operator to close down, thus fore- j
ing 500 miners out of work.
Lewis and the inner mine workers bureau-j
crats have complete control over the union’s j
tremendous bankroll. They can buy office j
buildings in Washington, contribute $500,000 j
to a political campaign, put members of the j
Lewis family on the payroll, or pay a mine j
owner to close his mine, all without asking!
dues-paying miners what they think about!
it. All semblance of democracy inside the j
United Mine Workers long ago was thrown)
overboard. i
Things Are Warming Up
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WASHINGTON COLUMN jfjo
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Lewis’ Rawest Deal
YOUR LIFE AT STAKE
Suppose that every productive acre of farm
land and every farm building in the great
agricultural state of Washington, with all
its orchards, wheat fields and truck gardens
was suddenly wiped out. That would be an
inconceivable and unprecented disaster.
Yet fire—uncontrolled, man-caused fire—
is taking just such a toll from the people of
this country. The last census gave the value
of Washington’s farms as $593,000,000. And
that’s about what our national 1946 fire loss
will be.
The gravity of the problem has been well
described by Frank A. Christensen, president
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
“Seven years ago the upward trend in fire
losses began,” he said. “During the war
years we explained it away by charging it to
increased activity or industrial and mercan-
tile operations, undermanned fire depart-
ments, obsolete and inefficient fire fighting
facilities, and public preoccupation with the
war effort. However, it has now been more
than a year since cessation of hostilities. The
trend in fire losses has continued unabated,
resulting in destruction of material and sup-
plies at a time when they are vital to the
reconversion of our economy.
“Only once and possibly twice before in
our history has waste by fire all over the
country been so menacing to our national
welfare as it is today.”
We cannot escape our responsibility by
saying that fire control is somebody else’s'
business. It is our own, personal business.
It comes down to the state, the town, the
district, the home—and finally to the in-
dividual, whose carelessness is the greatest
cause of fire. Every man’s life, every man’s
property, every man’s savings, is the stake
in the fight against fire.
Those who know Lewis consider his use of j
union dues to pay a mine owner to close j
down as about the rawest thing he has ever I
pulled. I
The facts leaked out when the treasury!
department conducted an income tax probe
of John L. Lewis and almost moved to in-
dict him.
On May 12, 1927, the mine B coal company
at Springfield, 111., closed down and remain-
ed closed until November, 1929. During this
time Lewis paid the mine operator, Carl
Elshoff, around $350,000 as compensation to
remain closed.
The reason Lewis wanted to close Mine B
was to throw his hated rivals, the progres-
sive miners, out of work. Around 500 miners
had been employed by Elshoff and when the
National Labor Relations Board held an
election, the vote was 404 to 25 against join-
ing Lewis’ union.
Following this overwhelming defeat, Lewis
got Mine B to close, and the progressive
miners found themselves out of jobs. That
was their reward for voting against him.
The amazing fact that Lewis paid out more,
than a quarter of a million dollars of mine-
workers’ dues to close down a coal mine
came to light when treasury inspectors noted
the $350,000 payment to Elshoff in the
Lewis-United Mine Workers’ income tax
statement. Lewis carefully covered himself,
by chalking this up as a “loan.”
The treasury, however, did not view it in
this light and was about to start income tax
prosecution when advisers warned that this
would only make Lewis a martyr and that a
jury probably would not convict. In the end,
plans for prosecution were dropped.
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*« EDITORIALS.. By James Thrasher
How Lewis Won Supremacy
This is only one page in one of the black-
est chapters of ruthless Lewis warfare, with
John L. virtually telling the justice depart-
THE DRY-ICEMAN COMETH
We are inclined to give credit to Mark Twain as well
as to General Electric’s scientists in Schenctady for de-
veloping the man-made snowstorm. It’s pure supposition
on our part, but we lean to the theory that the scientists
were just as weary as a lot of the rest of us at hearing
Twain’s hackneyed remark about the weather quoted in-
cessantly. So, in desperation, they really did something
about it.
At any rate, man has staked out a claim in capricious
nature’s realm. Man, • presumptuous and calculating, has
his foot in the door. And where he will go, in a climatic
way, is anybody’s guess.
Already the song about dreaming of a white Christmas
is not only dated, but obsolete. You want a white Christ-
mas? Okay, get yourself a few pounds of dry ice and an
airplane. If the day is cool enough and the clouds low
enough, just fly through a cloud and scatter your ice. By
a sort of chain reaction you get snow—tons of it!
What’s the point? Well, the scientists suggest that it
would be a fine trick in arid country to pile up potential
water power ‘ and irrigation supplies for the spring season.
They also suggest that maybe clouds could be made to drop
show in rural regions and skip the more congested settle-
ments. Thus the flying dry-iceman might assure steady
winter business for a ski resort, while eliminating slush and
winter business for a ski resort, while eliminating slush
and driving Hazards in the city.
It’s a fine idea, but it carries the possibility of adding
complications to our already complicated society.
BY PETER EDSON
EA Washington Correspondent
C.—(NEA)—Let’s get this straight,
d of John L. Lewis’s letter to Interior Secretary-
! Coal Mines Administrator “Cap” Krug, there was the following classic
paragraph, which reads like something by a ham Virgil:
“You, now, at the last hour, of the last day, yield
t o the blandishments and soothing siren voice of
She operators and seek to place the United Mine
(workers of America and its members between
5cylla and Charybdis. This course we refuse to
IJollow.”
If all these allusions sound like Greek to Cap
rug, he’s right. They’re swiped from Homer’s
dyssey and the $1.98 edition of Bui finch’s My-
! IBBI fthology To translate the paragraph into terms of
the 1946 coal strike is therefore necessary, so people
can understand it.
In the first'place, John L. Lewis is casting him-
self in the role of Ulysses.
1 You remember t(he Adventures of Ulysses, of course. He was King
of Ithaca. Ulysses v^as the hero of the Trojan wars. (John L. has been
fighting Trojans for years—the coal operators and the government.)
~reek kings had taken an oath to protect the beaut: •
(As a symbol of today’s goings-on, she v/ouLj
represent the leadership of the American labor movement.)
One day a. sheeip-herder named Paris came along and el opr j v.\
the fair Helen, taking her off to Troy (If Paris had lived loc;>y, his.
name would have been Phil Murray.)
So when Paris ((or Phil Murray) eloped with Helen (or bake-- hip
in the labor mbVjementj.it was up to Ulysses (John L. Levels) t > go
get her back. That's what the Trojan wars were all about. (That’s
| what today’s coa/1 strike is really all about.)
Ulysses, you’ll {remember, was the'guy who thought up the wooden
j horse which footed the Trojans. (In today’s parlance, the wooden
j horse would be lthe coal contract which Ulysses Lewis signed with
j the government. )j
; TTLYSSES won Ithe war after outsmarting the Trojans this way, but
! ^ he had a terrijble time getting back home. After escaping from the
| island of Circe the Sorceress (by means of a five-cents-a-ton royalty
j for a health and (welfare fund, no doubt), he and his men had to get'
! by the Sirens (\yhose irresistible songs lured sailors to their deaths
| on the rocks) arid the two monsters Scylla and Chai’ybdis (frightful
i terrors of the sea past which ships had to sail)
j It was a long)and hard battle, but, as John L. (Ulysses) Lewis said i
; in,his letter to 'Trojan Captain Krug, the miners weren’t yielding to j
i the Sirens, and! they didn’t intend to get caught by Scylla and j
I Charybdis. Not) going their way
! (What would you poor readers do if you didn’t have the newspapers j
\ handy to translate the language of John L. Lewis for you when nej
j started talking (Greek mythology to settle coal strikes?) j
VOU see, all the jGre<
,ful Queen Helen.
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Q—What are the two top-rank-
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A—Far west and middle states,
says Research Council for Eco-
nomic Security, Chicago. Rankings
were made on basis of deaths from
tuberculosis, infectious diseases, in-
fant deaths, etc., in age group 1
to 60.
Q—What is secondary recovery
in the oil industry?
A—Reworking of old, apparent-
ly dry wells. Ordinarily only
about a third of the oil present is
gotten out before secondary re-
covery operations, which recover
around another third.
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Friday - Saturday
Q—Who is Gabriel Gonzales
Videla?
A—President of Chile.
“SOAPLESS SOAP”
Most people consider petroleum products
as chiefly used for fuel and lubricants. As
to volume, this is correct, but as to variety
of uses it falls far short of telling’ the story.
In addition to the countless services this
product renders mankind, we may soon be
Using oil to wash our hands and clothes.
The demand for petroleum derivatives in
the manufacture of “soapless soaps” has
been spurred by the natural soap shortage
which resulted from the decline in supply
of animal and vegetable fats. One of the
leading American oil companies has joined
with a chemical manumacturing concern in
stepping up production of an oil-derived
detergent. The product is sold directly to
industrial users and reaches established
trade outlets for distribution under various
trade names.
This is but one more way in which oil is,
playing a role in the American home and
business. Its uses and adaptations seem
almost limitless. The great experimental
and research laboratories which the indus-
try maintains are finding new and varied
annlleations almost dailv. And the consumer
gets more and better products.
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We can
, foresee intercity and intercounty, squabbles, with unwanted
ment what to do. Scene of the battle wasj^^QW becoming as great a cause for indignation as un-
the Illinois coal fields, right in Lewis own Wanted rubbish thrown over the back fence by a neighbor
; • The possibilities of irritation and strife are numerous
and ominous. Needless' snowfall might r come to be as
pollitically damaging an accusation as needless expenditure.
And if sprinkling a few pounds of dry ice can launch a
snowstorm, who can say that man’s tampering with the
weather will stop there? Has anybody tried a sprinkling-
can attachment on a plane to-prime the pump of a rain-
cloud? And how about dragging an oversized electric dryer
through the skies to insure a day of pleasant weather?
j But if these things should come to pass, there arises the
biggest problem of all. Who is going to; decide who wants
what kind of weather, and where, and when?
The possibility of having that one piled on top of the
problems of world peace and atomic energy control leaves
us inclined to take our weather as it comes until some of
the more immediate man-made clouds have blown over.
Q—How many people does the
Fost Office Department employ?
A—495,000, as of Sept. 30, 1946.
2-FISTED
THRILLS!
a Band of Brutal Killers |
The economists have figured out that in
her lifetime a farmer’s wife is worth $69,000
to her husband. Col. Festus Babble wants
to know what her trade-in value is.—Dallas
Times Herald.
bailiwick. Perhaps it was personal pride
which made him determined to come out on'
top with the miners close to his home at
Springfield. Perhaps also it was because
these miners knew Lewis well that they
fought him so bitterly.
The battle lasted the best part of a de-
cade. It began in 1929 when John Walker
was president of the Illinois Federation of
Labor and Harry Fishwick was president of
District 12 of the United Mine Workers.
Illinois miners had been getting restless
under Lewis’ high-handed methods, so in re-
taliation he removed all District 12 officials
without even the pretense of a trial. Ap-
pointing his own stooges, he sent them to
take over Springfield headquarters under an
armed guard.
Despite this, the duly elected district of-
ficials refused to step down. A bitter strug-
gle followed, with the courts finally ruling
that Lewis had no right to interfere in the
affairs of District 12.
Finally, in 1932, Lewis negotiated a new
contract with the Illinois coal operators. In
those days, however, miners did not accept
Lewis’ dictation without question. They
voted on their contracts. And, in this case,
they voted Lewis and his new contract down.
Lewis then ordered another ballot, and this
time a set of ballots, stored all night at the
Ridgely Farmers State Bank were taken out
by two Lewis henchmen and destroyed. The
henchmen alibied that they had been robbed.
• BARBS
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^ in rushing through your work
is that it gives you time to do it
over again.
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Two -men who broke Into a
home in Texas were caught tak-
ing a shower. They're in jail
now-—alt washed up.
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With controls off, lucky folks
, nay be ablfin to afford to have meat
jnce a week instead of not at all.
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LAST TIMES TODAY
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Lewis in Cahoots with Operators
WORTH REMEMBERING
No matter what plans of international co-
operation we have, we are doomed to
catastrophe unless we can get a new spiritual
outlook in the hearts of men and women.—
Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill.
Though all evidence pointed to the fact
that this second vote also was against the
new contract, Lewis, later that day, declared
an emergency and signed the contract on
behalf of the miners. He then ordered the
men back to work.
This was on Aug. 10, 1932. From that date
until 1937, bloody warfare continued between
Lewis and the miners who opposed him, the
latter eventually becaming the progressive
miners. It was during this prolonged battle
that 21 of the anti-Lewis miners were killed.
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