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The El Reno Daily Tribune
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tatted Dally except Saturday from 301 North Bock bland Avenue,
and entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3, 1873.
BAT DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D. WARD
luslnaas Manager Menacing Editor
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Ctrcwlatton and Office Manager
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including Sales Tax
Tuesday, May 20, 1952
That Is what it takes, a sinner must turn around and go back home I
to his father’s house. I will arise and go to my father.—Luke 15:1$.
Non-Joiners Deserve Choice
T’HE expert advices from Peter Edson and other Wash-
ington correspondents make it clear the real barrier to
a steel settlement is not a wage boost but the union shop
issue. In fact, this question is now paramount not just in
steel, but in several other major industries.
What is a “union shop” contract? It is one under which
a worker in an organized plant is given 30 days after hiring I
to join the governing union. If he does not, he must either
pay union dues anyway, or face discharge from his job.
In the contrasting “closed shop,” nobody can be hired by
the employer unless he is already a member of the union.
This arrangement is now barred by law, but the union shop
is not.
Large segments of American management nevertheless
stoutly oppose the union shop, largely on the grounds that
it amounts to violation of an individual worker’s rights |
under the constitution.
THE supreme court never has passed on the constitu-
tionality of compulsory unionization. But it has ruled
that a worker may not be denied employment because of
union membership. It seems far-fetched to imagine it would
go to the other extreme and insist upon membership as the
password to a job.
There is something foreign to the American tradition in
compulsion carried this far. Of course we must obey the
laws and pay taxes and serve in the armed forces if called.
But these are not the same as being compelled to attach
oneself—financially or any other way—to any particular
organization, society or group.
The basic union argument for the union shop is that since
the unorganized worker minority in a plant directly bene-
fits from all wage gains and other concessions obtained in
the bargaining process, these workers at the very least
should help support the union. “Free riders” is the term
labor applies to non-joiners.
THIS is not the place to argue the psychology or justice
the non-joiner’s position as against the union ma-
jority. But whether he is being fair or not, his freedom to
choose what working and social associations he shall make
ought not to be penalized.
Put in the most brutal terms, a man in America must be
free to be a heel if he wants to be. This is not said to grant
labor’s argument about non-joiners. It is just a way of
saying that our guarantees of individual rights were not
designed to prevent selfishness. They were framed to pro-
mote the maximum reasonable expression of the individual
self.
In the same fashion, our criminal laws are aimed not
primarily at catching all the guilty, but rather at protecting
the innocent. We practice justice on the theory it is better
for 10 guilty men to escape punishment than for one inno-
cent man to be penalized.
If we draft laws or countenance agreements to force
unselfish behavior, we may soon be forcing other kinds of
“wise and necessary” behavior. And then where would our
freedom be?
8»|A W<«.
Why is it that the tires on your neighbor’s car always
seem to last longer?
As the car-parking problem grows more and more serious,
how about some scientist finding a new planet?
Down Memory Lane
May 20, 1932
Two Lincoln school sixth grade Btudents, Margaret Lan-
man and Robert Niles, have maintained a perfect attend-
ance record during their entire school careers, records of
Principal M. C. Bates showed today. Other students with
exceptional attendance records include George Graham, three
ye®r®- Those with two-year records are Ernest Shepherd
and Dorothy Hensley, sixth grade students; Maxine Cupp,
Jimmie K. Harrison, Jack Blanchard and Jack Hodgkinson,
t u" ’ ^om Harwell, Versa Belle Lamka, fourth grade;
John Wesley Lanman and Betty Louise Booth, second grade.
,, Miss Eleanor Henderson of Tulsa, formerly a member of
the E1 Reno public school faculty, will arrive Saturday for a
visH. of several days with Miss Maurine Wilson and Miss
Dorothy Wilson, 620 South Miles.
v, IP8* L’ Mil,er and daughter, Miss Mattie Lou Mar-
’-u,, ,oaiH ?Prin»s- Ark., are expected to arrive for a
fortnight s visit in the home of their sister and aunt, Mrs.
,V-^tle£’ and Mr- DeAtley, 308 North Evans.
Miss Pauline Rector, student in the University of Okla-
homa, Norman, will spend the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. U. Rector, 820 South Bickford.
_ May 20, 1942
a P(P8’ Lson of Mr- and Mrs. E. N. Potts, 511
South Ellison, has been elected to serve next year as pledge
master for Alpha Pi Mu, national pre-medic fraternity at
Oklahoma A. and M. college, Stillwater, where he is com-
pleting his junior year.
Twelve pupils will be graduated from the eighth grade
at Sacred Heart school while 15 students will be awarded
nte«rnSmreFrwear^ hf£iho01 diplomas during ceremonies
at 8 p. m. Friday in the El Reno highschool auditorium.
Pupils in the eighth grade are James Burns, Lu Alyce
Compton, Delores Determan, Clarence Dill, Madonna Fox,
Rose Mane O Keefe, Frank Menz, Monita Ratterman, Mari-
S?r^tSMi^G€fn^,eVe Schrb’ A,fred Smith and Paul
Stre.t. Members of the senior class at Sacred Heart are Ray
DilL George Elmenhorst, Don Fuhrman, Betty Jean Haley
Marian Hufnagel.Lenora Jacquot, Marcella Leonard, Helen
Menz, Bill Norveli, Mary Ann O’Keefe, Agnes Ratterman
O^heHne Reding, Bernard Streit, Mary Ann Weaver and
THE STORY: Private Detective
Jack Duggan borrows Dr. Basil
Willing’s name and dies. Linked
with Duggan’s poisoning is the
death of Miss Katherine Shaw. Aged
and blind, who apparently was to
meet Duggan at Dr. Zimmer's
home. Later while discussing Dug-
gan’s murder with Stephan Law-
rence, the poet, Perdita. the poet’s
daughter, faints. Basil, at Law-
rence’s request, is to consult with
Dr. Zimmer, who is a psychiatrist
as is Basil, about his daughter.
Basil goes to a newspaper office te
talk to Frank Lloyd, a reporter who
is engaged te Fcrdita.
• * *
xyx
T>ASIL WILLING took the cllp-
-t* ping about Duggan's death from
his pocket. "Did you see this?”
“Yes.” Frank Lloyd was puzzled.
“Jack Duggan died after he left
Zimmer’s house. He may have
been poisoned there. Perdita and
her father were among the other
guests.”
'And Stephen never told me!”
’The police don’t want the story
published in full yet. Stephen Law-
rence was afraid to confide in a
newspaper reporter. But I’m going
to risk it because you have a per-
sonal interest in this.”
'What do you mean?”
Perdita fainted when she first
heard the news of Duggan's death.
Does she know or suspect some-
thing she hasn’t told the police? I
need hardly tell you that’s danger-
ous when there’s a poisoner at large.
Lloyd was shocked. “I had no
idea. . . . But Perdita wouldn’t
protect a poisoner!”
The warmth in his voice revive^
Basil’s liking for him. “People can
get themselves into situations where
they have no choice. Even nice
people. Suppose you tell me when
you first began to fear that Perdita’s
anxiety was neurotic or worse?”
Lloyd sighed. “You win. It be-
gan about two months ago.”
“And how long has Perdita known
that her father was going to die?”
“A year and a half.”
“In that case, some other blow
may have fallen about two months
ago. Any idea what it might be?”
"Of course not. People don’t
remember things like that. . . ,
Wait a minute! I do recall the first
time I thought something queer
was going on.”
"Tell me."
“It was just about two' months
ago when I went into the Law-
rences’ house with Perdita’s father.
As we came in, I heard a voice up-
stairs saying: ’You will notice one
thing out of the ordinary there—a
certain number of us never speak
of the future. It would be bad taste
for us, don't you agree?’
"I had never heard the voice
before. It was a lovely, rich con-
tralto with a great variety of in-
flection. It stopped speaking when
Stephen Lawrence shut the door
and we were still taking off our
coats when a woman came to the
head of the stairs whom I had
never seen before. Perdita, coming
down Just behind her. introduced
her to me as tars. Yorke. And that
was the first time I thought Perdita
looked shattered and tremulous, like
someone who has suffered a shock.”
• * *
A POLICE car . took Inspector
Foyle and Basil to a six-story
building on Thirty-fourth street be-
tween Lexington and Third. Sam-
son of the homicide squad was
watting hi the doorway of the year
apartment.
“Came this morning.”
held out a thick brown envelope
addressed to Duggan. “Guaranty
, By Helm McCloy
,w »*•**» pfletod through permittaii el th* aublithw.
taatow Hmu, lac Mtiftjfotf h» NtA ferric*. lac
Trust. April statement, I suppose."
Foyle ripped the envelope open
and frowned.
Basil smiled. “You needn’t tell
me. I can guess. There is no sum
of $400 in the debit column.”
"Right.” Foyle dropped the state
ment. "That check to ‘J.D.’ was
never cashed. And now it’s dis-
appeared."
Basil looked about the shabby,
comfortable living room. A book-
case with books on criminology,
Duggan wasn’t literary. A large
black cat with golden eyes strolled
from behind the sofa and rubbed
his back against Samson’s legs.
"Duggan’s?”
“Yqs.” Sampson looked sheepish,
“I gave him some canned milk and
liver I found in the refrigerator. I
was thinking of taking him home
to my little boy.”
Basil looked at the cat and said,
“Duggan was lonely.”
"He has a mother and a sister in
Nebraska," said Foyle. "No close
friends in New York.”
"Anything else?”
"We’ve tested an extract of Dug
gan’s stomach tissue,” the inspector
went on. “No quantitative analysis
yet, but Lambert, the toxicologist,
made a guess that Duggan had at
least 10 grains of codeine. Is that
what you wanted to know?”
Basil nodded. “And what per-
sonal items did you find here? We
don’t know much about the man.”
* * *
ttriVlERE'S an odd key here that
A doesn’t fit any of the locks.
He was an ideal tenant, the Janitor
says, clean and quiet. And he must
have been out of town in March.
He left the cat with the janitor and
cancelled his milk order from March
21 to March 31.”
■Was he any good as a detec-
tive?"
“He did all right. He had two
assets: he worked alone without
any operatives to share a secret,
and he looked so commonplace
that no one was likely to suspect
that he was a detective. His forte
was discretion and honesty. They
don’t always go together in that
racket. But he was the sort that
family lawyers recommend to timid
clients.”
“The sort of detective that Kath-
erine Shaw might hear about from
some friend,” mused Basil.
“No link with Katherine Shaw
or anyone else we care about.”
Foyle exhaled a weary breath.
“The reports would have to be
verbal—or have you forgotten?
Duggan had no assistants and—
Miss Shaw was blind.”
(To Be Continued) *
WELL, there's life in the old
™ girl yet! Went to a meeting
at the highschool where a repre-
sentative crowd of El Reno’s busi-
ness men and women gathered to
hear Oscar Monrad and Donald
S. Kennedy explain the inside
workings of an incorporated in
dustrial foundation.
The speakers were convincing
and quick as a cat can wink its
eye Warren DeMoss flipped the
switch and around $60,000 was
subscribed to put El Reno’s own
industrial foundation in business.
To Ed Lewis, chamber of com-
merce manager and Warren De
Moss, champion spark plugs (no
commercial for any particular
brand of spark plugs Intended) of
the activity is extended the
heartiest of congratulations.
An additional 1,600 shares is yet
for sale so if you were not there
last night and want to climb on
El Reno’s power-driven band wag-
on you can still make It.
Thought I had heard of all
kinds of negotiations, but the
dealings with Korean prisoners
makes me blink my eyes and
wonder just how far we have
fallen. Fancy a sltdown strike
in a POW camp creating even a
line of type. Imagine acknowledg-
ing such a thing. What has be-
come of the no work, no eat
plan for these incarcerated vic-
tims of despotism? They should
have staged their sit down strike
before they got into this mess
and had something the Reds
wanted. What do we care if they
sit down, or are we trying to buy
a chunk of good will by over-
indulgence of prisoners?
I am not advocating abusive
treatment of prisoners of war, but
I am still carrying the torch for
the good American boys who are
dead at the hands of the enemy,
and am not apt to lay it down for
fear of what kind of propaganda
the Reds may make out of it.
I still say, I’d rather be talked
about than not noticed. Wouldn’t
you?
Twenty-five years ago today a
shy lad took off across the Atlan-
tic in a plane called The Spirit
of St. Louis. He reduced the belt
line of the world, and today, by
the progress made in air travel,
the world is so small in terms of
time it takes to reach a destina-
tion, that there are no foreigners,
just neighbors. It’s a curious ob-
servation but nations like people,
the farther away they are the less
trouble they cause.
Mr. Breger
Tuesday, May 20, 1952
By Dave Breger
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‘Dorothy, dear, I DO wish you’d stop puttin’ the floor
lamp so close to my chair . "
[★WASHINGTON COLUMN C
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NBA Staff Correspondent
Ridgway Almost Certain To Gel
Promotion to Five-Star Rank
IftiSBSSS. j
Look and Learn
1. What U. 8. river turns more
factory wheels than any other in
the world
2. Who was prime minister of
England at the age of 24?
3. What is the tendon which con-
nects the muscles of the calf of
the leg with the heel called?
4. Who was the author of the
original Tarzan stories?
5. What work is considered the
masterpiece of Johann Wolfgang
Goethe?
ANSWERS
1. The Merrimack, 110 miles long,
flowing through New Hampshire
and Massachusetts.
2. William Pitt.
3. The tendon of Achilles.
4:. Edgar Rich Burroughs.
5. “Faust." N
jFAm^rJoPrjviout Puzzle
III
Short Stories
About Home Folks
Mr. and Mrs. Gene E. Marshal^
1314 South Hadden, spent the week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hall
In Fort Worth, Tex. Their son,
Johnny Marshall, visited over the
week-end with his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. John McCurry In
Bethany.
Mrs. Elsie Watts of Oklahoma
City spent Sunday in the home of
Mrs. Carolyn Sams, 1121 South
Rock Island.
Mrs. L. L. Stone of Oklahoma
City is a guest in the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Laird, 2400 Towns
End drive.
HORIZONTAL
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13 Pauses
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33 Mountain
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34 Primps
35 Pastry
36 Make a
mistake
38 Estimate
39 Her husband
1«-Lewis
42 Age
45 Genus of
plants
46 Steamer (ab.)
49 Summer
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51 Withstand
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32 Measure of
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34 Shown
36 City in
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37 Narrow inlet.
40 Cripples
41 Doctrine
42 Essential
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43 Rodents
44 Exclamation
46 Lather
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Problem a Day
A confectioner wishes to mix
candy worth 70 cents a pound with
candy worth 40 cents a pound to
make 42 pounds of an assortment
worth 50 cents a pound. How much
of each kind should he use?
ANSWER
14 lb. 70-cent candy; 28 lb. 40-
cent candy. Let X equal amount of
70-cent candy, and 42 minus X the
amount of 40-cent candy; then,
multiplying each by Its value, form
equation 0.70X plus 16.80 minus
0.40X equals 42 times 0.60. Solve for
X.
Political
Announcements
The Tribune la authorised to
announce the candidacies of the
following Individuals, subject to the
primary election July 1:
Democratic Ticket
For Commissioner Dist. No. 8:
W. R. ‘BILL’ MABERRY
For Commissioner Dist. No. It
RAY TECH
FLOYD PALMER
SAM FREEMAN
For County Sheriff:
LLOYD E. PALMER
TINY ROYSE
RAYMOND GAPPA
For Supreme Court, District No. 3:
WELCOME D. PIERSON
For Commiseloner Dist. No. 2:
AVERY A. BUD JOHNSTON
, Republican Ticket
For Commissioner Dist. No. It
GEORGE T. SMITH
WASHINGTON, May 20 -<NEA)
VT -Four-Star General Matthew
B. Ridgway is almost a sure bet to
be given five-star General of the
Army rank before he goes to take
up his new job as SACEUR—Su-
preme Allied Commander in Europe
He would be the second U.S. gen-
eral to be given five-star rank since
World War II. General of the Army
Omar Bradley was the first. Mar-
shall, MacArthur, Eisenhower and
Arnold were first given this rank
during the war.
If General Ridgway doesn’t get
it now he would be outranked in
Paris by two of his deputies, British
Field Marshal Lord Montgomery
and French General Alphonse Juin.
The government’s housekeeping
agency, General Services Adminis-
tration, is making vigorous denials
that it is competing with privately
owned Western Union Telegraph
Company in operating a wire serv-
ice.
Western Union haa been blasting
at the GSA telegraphic network in
newspaper advertisements headed.
“Blueprint for Socialism.” The main
argument is that the government-
operated telegraph service is a
foot-in-the-door approach to gov-
ernment ownership, which is now
being urged by striking Western
Union employes.
OSA rebuttal Is that the govern-
ment wire circuit, linking 56 cities
in which Uncle Sam does most of
ills business saves the taxpayers
about $2 million a year. Its operat-
ing costs are $1.4 million a year.
If messages were sent at commer-
cial rates, cost would be $3.4 mil-
lion.
Furthermore, the private lines
are faster. And finally, the lines
and equipment are leased from
American Telephone and Telegraph,
which is privately owned business
end a Western Union competitor
in this field.
* * *
/CONGRESSIONAL economy and
budget-cutting drive now in-
dicates possible savings of about
$7.5 billion, or a little over 9 per-
cent. Of this $4.7 billion is the
House cut of military expenditures.
$1 billion is the indicated cut in
foreign aid and $13 billion is the
saving that the House has been
able to make on all other govern-
ment spending.
Senate has so far completed ac-
tion on only two bills. It cut the
Treasury-Post Office bUl passed by
the House $44 million and raised
the House-passed Labor-
Security bill by $3 million.
* * v
Irving s. Olds, retiring _
chairman of U.S. steel Corpora
told his stockholders that “the stei
companies have never asked th*
steel prices be increased $12 a ton
This $12-a-ton figure did no
however, appear out of nowhere. O
March 21 the Washington head
quarters for the steel companies pi
out a statement that the recoir
mended wage rate Increases “woul
cost the companies about $1 billio
year, which is about $12 per to
of steel products shipped by th
companies.”
On the other hand, after Pres
dent Truman blasted Senator Hon
er Capehart’s price-raising amem
ment, the government put Itself i
a ridiculous position by trying i
force the steel companies to accej:
a $3-or-$4-a-ton price increase un
der the Capehart amendment, t
meet government - recommende
wage raises.
* *
Nomination of Albert F. Nufe
as U£. ambassador to the Argent
tine will mean- no change in U.fc
watchful policy toward Dictate
Juan Peron’s government. Th
main purpose was to get a caree
diplomat in Buenos Aires to sue
6eed the string of political ap
po in tees who thus far have nc
been able to improve relations wit;
the Argentine.
One of the biggest headaches li
UJ3.-Argentirie relations today 1
the stream of anti-American props
ganda being issued by Peron’s labo
attaches at other Latin-America:
capitals. Much of it follows th
straight Cbmmie line.
Lesson in English
WORDS’ OFTEN MISUSED; D
not say. ’My relations are comln
to visit me.” Say "My relative*.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Taupe. Pronounce top, o as in dopi
and not tawp.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cora
(precious stone). Corral (enclosur
for animals).
SYNONYMS: Vanish, dlsappeai
dissolve, fade.
WORD STUDY: “Use a won
three times and it is yours.” Le
us Increase our vocabulary by mas
tering one word each day. Today’
word: RELEGATE; to exile; t*
banish; put back or away. “Such i
man should not be relegated b
obscurity.”
■Sally's Sallies
By Scott
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