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“MY MAMA 18 going to get the prettiest Valen-

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“No she isn't because MY mama is going to get

‘one better even that that.”

Of course, it didn’t make any difference to the

two little tykes sitting across from me in the 1-B

class at school 28 that they have never made any Valentines before in their lives,

* “And each of the 32 excited first graders was posts

tive as the “makings” were handed them by their teacher, Mrs. Martha Gehlbach, that theirs would be the prettiest. To really get into the ®ving of things I reached for some Valentine makings myself, “Mister—I betcha my Valentine is prettier than yours,” little Larry Marshall piped up. I winced. “I betcha it isn't,” Jackie McDaniels popped back at Larry. I had a friend in 1-B, Miss Gehlbach demonstrated how the Valentines should be made from start .to finish. There was a great big “ummmmmm” from the class when she held it up for all to see. A little girl in the fron} row told the teacher that her grandmother showed her how to cut with scissors. Cutting would be easy for her, she thought. Everyone was ready to start. Little hands grasped the thin red cardboard which had a heart traced on it. Many tongues made their appearance as the cutting progressed. Biting the tongue seemed to help several who had difficulty following the pencil mark accurately,

Sissy-Stuff for Boys “WON'T my mother be surprised?” one girl asked her companions, She immediately was cautioned not to show it to her mother before Friday—to hide it and keep it under her pillow for a real surprise. All the. talk about Mama getting a Valentine prompted one hoy to ask why he couldn't make a Valentine for his Daddy. An efficient looking youngster with pig-tails informed him that “boys” don’ get Valentines, only 8irls,

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SURPRISE—School 28 first graders (left to right) Larry Marshall. ‘inda Lou Hoard,

Larry gave Linda Lou Hoard *and Judith Jones a critical look: The two girls were pasting their hearts on the paper doilies. He speeded up his cutting and became quite upset when the scissors left the guide line several times. Paste pots by this time were being gouged ‘deeply. “I want mine to stick good,” Larry announced as he applied a big gob of paste,

Bursting With Excitement

ALL AROUND the room that same idea prevailed as small fists pounded the heart on the doilie. Next came the paper heart with the little cherub getting ready to shoot his bow and arrow. No.guide lines on the paper but that didn't bother the group which by now was bursting with excitement about “Mama's Valentine.” More pasting and pounding. pushed back his chair and began admiring his handiwork. Not for long. A fellow worker promptly informed him, “Hey, youll have to cut this heart out.” It was another paper heart with the words “Be Mine” on it. The final adornments were paste-on pictures of two bluebirds and a heart-shaped box of candy decorated with ribbons and flowers. Several had trouble making them stick. Miss Gehlbach had to explain to the class that all it takes 1s one gentle lick of the tongue. Well, there was the pastepot which would make t stick and no one was bashful about having licked the glue off. The last Valentine was thumped into shape. Scissors, and paper cuttings were disposed of. Valentines which had been roughly. handled a few minutes before, were now held as if they were fragile.

One little fellow.

_SECOND SECTION _

Church Took Away Pagan Stigma

SOME THREE MILLION Valentines will find their way from counters into mailboxes during this week, all because a long-dead Roman happened

Feb. 14.

apols people who sit around and watch for the “first ribin.” These watchers decided that birds began mating on Feb, 14. . . , Being Romans, this was a good enough ex cuse for a party and out of it grew a pagan feast. » » ”

With many “Don't show it to your mother until Valentine's Day” the class was dismissed. | As the children filed out holding the red and] white Valentines in plain view, I wondered-how this | would be possible. Then I saw, One boy stuffed | his Valentine in his overcoat pocket, I'll bet his mama won't see her Valentine until Friday.

Judith Jones and Jackie Daniels plan to sur prise their mothers with a Valentine Friday.

PART OF the ceremony was a {drawing of names from a public |urn by Roman youths and maidens. | They ‘drew each other's names, to | pick a “blind date” for the coming year. The Christian church later tried to discourage these “love lotteries.” When they failed in this they re-

* moved the stigma of paganism by

dedicating the day to a saint, St. Valentine. + Bince seven Valentines are listed in the calendar of saints, there are

saint of lovers.

» ” SOME SAY he was a young Roman priest put to death for per-

'of Emperor Claudius’ edict. Others. say he was a Franciscan jnonk who wrote letters for illiterate villagers and decorated them with artistic designs. The popular choice, however, is that St. Valentine was a young Roman priest beheaded Feb. 14, 270 A. D. for refusing to renounce Christianity. Despite the whitewash of dedicating the day to a saint, the church

Waste Basket Stuff =

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb, 11.—Brickbats tossed in the air have been known sometimes to conk the throwees on the head. Now go on with my painful story: Rep. William J. Miller of Conn. was talking about too many federal press agents writing too many press releases on too much scarce paper at too great a cost to the taxpayers in cash and to the Washington correspondents in anguish.

their éampaign promises all right, but it will take a little time, he said. Rep. Francis Case of S. D. sent me a gloomy report on Russo-American relations, which he said are getting worse. Senator Millard E. Tydings of Md. delivered to me by the same mail a copy of a speech by him in which he said Russo-American relations gradually are getting better.

1 was listening carefully and saying, amen. Repgy In With the Handouts

Miller added that 90 per cent of these pronunciamentos never hit print because nobody much was interested in them except their authors. “True” 1 said to myself. And then I had ofisfef my infrequent ideas: “I'd investigate the contents of my own wastebasket and thus bolster Rep. Miller's charges with evidence. H-m-m-m-m-m. It pains me to say so, but truth is truth and about half of the crumpled documents I found in my trash can came from the talented pens of congressmen. On the top of the pile was an essay of high literary quality by Rep. Richard E. Harless of Arizona on the heroism of John Paul Jones. It was published by the government printing office at the expense of the congressman.

Tribute to Utah SENATOR ELBERT D. THOMAS of Utah contributed two pages of his mimeographed remarks anent the 100th anniversary of the settlement of Utah, He mentioned the premiere of a motion picture called “Ramrod;” having to do with same. This cinema was produced by Harry Sherman, who used to be known as king of the horse oprys. I have no doubt it is as excellent entertainment as the senator claims. = I received from Rep. Clare Hoffman of Mich. a copy of his regular newsletter to his constituents, in

. which he urged them not to get impatient—yet—with

the Republicans in congress. They're going to keep

HALF WAY DOWN in my wastebasket, along with some handouts from the British embassy, the royal government, the war départment and the Flax and Fiber Publishing Co., I came across a 600word statement by Senator James E. Murray of Mont. He doubted whether small businessmen will survive much longer, uniess they get a break. Senator Muiray sent also a progress report on the work of his smallbusiness committee, a book which ran 379 pages. Senator George Malone of Nev. denied in typescript that his bill allowing landlords to incregse rentals 15 per cent would force 'em to do so, if they already thought their rents were high enough. 1 found a speech of Rep. Fred Hartley of Mich. about his investigations into lend-lease of iiberty ships to Great Britain and Russia. Senator Alexander Wiley of Wis. sent me his address, and good rcading it was, too, about atomic bomb control.

The senate agriculture committee delivered me a“

copy of its report on the 1947 fertilizer situation. Reps. Emanuel Celler of New York and Ed Gossett of Tex. announced they would talk about immigration in the next couple of days. Rep. Leo E. Allen of Ill. explained in print his sliding scale tax reduction plan. A few other lawmakers sent along a few other press releases. If this has embarrassed Rep. Miller I can only refer him sorrowfully, to my opening statement about brickbats.

disfavor, with the English church banning the practice in the 16th century.

decreed couples could draw names from “chance boxes.” The couples

to notice birds mating on

It seems the Romans had what « would be the equivalent of Indian

conflicting stories about the patron

forming secret marriages in deflance :

falentine’s i Is C Of Old Roman ‘Love

of mass production. One for every occasion, as pictured, was the result.

were given a year as each other's “blind date,” after which they must

oart’ company unless they had de-|with flowing Spencerian scroll as| These flourished for two centuries.

cided to get married.

the “chance” box popped up -in England about that time. There

girls wrote the names of her suitors| because the bits of paper were con- | of “mass’ production.”

on bits of paper, then rolled them

THE IDEA, however, was then |in clay. She then put the clay in| posal, flourishing in France, where custom water. When it dissolved the first| twisters got busy. “Valentine writ-| Englander, conceived the idea of

By the 17th century the practice | of sending handmade valentines

an artistic “declaration of.inten-

continued to hold “love lotteries” in Another interesting derivation of | tions” was popular,

s LATER, when the idea was fading

sidered the equivalent of a prosome enterprising word-

name to rise to the surface was her ers” popped up over England in

“valentine.”

bookstalls, offering ready.made’

verse guaranteed to please the lady love without ensnarling the sender.

The valentine bug came to America about the time of the Revolutionary war and naturally it was an American who conceived the idea

PE 4 IN 1840 Esther Howland, a New

wholesale manufacture. Naturally this made for yariety: and it was at

VALENTINES GALORE—Valentines were hand- made and a proposal eciilvalent ntl an American got the

born. The ATE had grown to an industry ¥ on manufacturers producing $300

take notice.

to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin was announced Feb, 1. It threw 1400 employees out of work. ta Full investiga- | tion by the house abor committee, hich began Monday, may mark f this case as the end of an era in American labor relations. The principal question raised is this: Can a labor union make such demands that an employer will be forced to close up his plant and go out of business? If that is what happened in Phil-

Mr. Edson

Second Best Drunk

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11.—Let ‘em hand out the Oscars—H. B. Warner is happy. A drunk in a Hollywood cafe suddenly recognized

him’ as the rum-sodden drunk in “It's a Wonderful

Life.” He staggered over to H. B.'s table. “Par me,” he said. “Don’ mean no ’'fense, Mr. Warner, . Jes’ wanna tell ya that outside of me you're the best drunk I ever saw.’ So Frankie boy has taken out. a permit to carry a gun, for “personal reasons.” we should be worried or not. Maybe we'd better get a permit too—to carry a fly-swatter.

Glenn Ford says these. reports of his objecting to

Eleanor Powell's resuming her career are not true. “The only time I objected to her dancing again,”

he laughed, “was when I got a bill for $286, for some

opera-length stockings.” Wallace Beery will make his first stage appearance in 30 years in “The Bad Man,” slated for the straw-hat circuit in Connecticut this summer. co-star with his adopted daughter, Carol Ann, 16, who wants to be an actress.

Sterling Hayden's current flame, Befty De. Noon, has fixed up the cabin of his 65-foot schooner with °

drapes and frilly curtains. It must be love.

Benny in Person

___ JACK BENNY will do personal appearances of 1 week each in New York, Boston and Chicago late in

May.

‘We don’t know whether

He'll how

By Erskine Johnson

— ——

“Alice in Wonderland” will be filmed in France

with a cast of puppets and live actors.

Jose Iturbi, missing from the set of “The Birds and the Bees,” was discovered in the studio barber

shop.

“But you didn't need a haircut,” said Jeanette

MacDonald. “Of course I did,” said Jose. want: to look like a musician?”

There's near-bedlam at Warner Brothers over an unfunny line which is getting hysterical howls at! “Nora,

sneak previews of Ann Sheridan's picture, Prentiss.”

Kent Smith's character name is Richard, and in

one scene Ann says, “Open the door, Richard.” The

“Do you think I

adelphia and Camden, is.there any reasan why it can’t happen in other U. 8S. cities and other industries? And is there any reason why it won't happen with increasing frequency in coming months as other unions make new deniands and as operating costs connie to rise? ”

2 By PETER EDSON NEA Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—The 86-day strike of the American Newspaper Guild which ended in the closing and sale of J. David Stern's Philadelphia and Camden newspapers has raised questions which make every labor leader, union member am employer in the U. S. sit up and

Sale of these properties along with Mr, Stern's radio station WCAU

closing up shop, all the Guildsmen knew was that his circulation and advertising figures were up.

asked him for a contract, he laughed them off and told them to go get a reputation. A year later the Guild negotiators came back. Mr. Annenberg again tried to stall, but the Guild was able to say: “Oh, no. You'll sign or else.” The Guild had organized the Inquirer and could dictate terms. This bargaining method worked, and the pattern seemed to stick.

They therefore declared they thought the sale was a phony, and that the papers would soon reopen under new management. Only now are Record employees beginning to realize the truth. ¢ 8 » » IN THEIR desire to get their jobs back, Guild leaders are taking al direct hand in trying to help find

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The Guild has assured all prespective buyers that it .will attach no strings to any purcnase. The {buyer will be able to open up on, {his own terms. The Guild will tract. The important point is that Guild | trouble was the straw that broke Mr. Stern’s back in Philadelphia.

newspaper job as a cub reporter in Philadelphia on the old, and likewise

. ANSWERS to iy questions are by no means simple. Mr. Stern was about 60 per oun owner of the newspapers and radio station which he headed and sold! for something under $10,000,000. He had heavy financial obligations which he had to meet on time. He had borrowed considerable | sums at relatively high rates of interest in expanding his holdings. His total indebtedness before the

title, of course, of that song which is driving America| sale has been estimated at $5,500,000.

crazy.

Susan Does Good Job

SUSAN HAYWARD'S acting job in “Smash Up’

proves what we've tlaimed for years—that she's one It's the acting break of

of the-best actresses'in town. “her career.

Ann Dvorak, just returned from Mexico City, spent Competition

her, last evening there with Ty Power, for Lana?

R. K. O. is paging Harold Arlen to do the nr

What Mr. Stern will get in money {from the liquidation after. payment ' lot taxes - is questionable. It. is known, however, that the amount will be small. Mr. Stern formerly had owned, the New York Post. He lost several {million dollars in ‘hat enterprise] and sold out. i is Bathe story.

IF FINANCIAL embarrassment

for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” with Ray Bolger| wag the reason for Mr. Stetn's clos-'

playing Ichabod Crane.

ling of his newspapers, it is only

Return of Milton Berle to Hollywood reminds US| natural to ask why. he did not say so

that hé .and Bob.Cummings once did a duo in vaude-

ville. Wonder who'd be the straight man now,

publicly in his negotiations with the Guild. There is good. reason. The na-

We, th the Women

A 1 YEAR-OLD California wife was granted, a divorce from her husband, exactly twice her age, when “He told me to go home to mother

she told a judge: for a couple of years and grow up.” That, of course, is what many young wives should have had before tackling matriage—a few more years in which to grow up. But & man, ought to think about that before, rather than after, marriage.

Not @ Matter of Years

THE GROWING-UP process @sn't: just a matter of years, either. Before a girl is ready for marriage she should have had all the education her family can give her; and then she should have been self-support-Ing for a year or so.. Education and efperience in. earning a Hivink 4 are

Peso By Ruth Millet

almost as necessary today to a girl's “growing up’ as they are fo a man's doing so. °

Why Blame the Girl

AND YET A man will fall in love with a girl who

is too young for marriage in years, education, and self-reliance, marry her, and then be unwilling to put up with her childish ideas and behavior. Grandma could marry early because she was trained for marriage from childhood. But today's girls aren't.

tional labor relations board has held that if economy is cited by an employer as the reason for inability to meet union demands, the employer must be prepared to open up his ,|books and prove his case. For Mr. Stern to have done that would have been to reveal his finan-

Philadelphia say that this was not too sound.

” . » IT WAS known that Mr. Stern (had recently had to borrow more money. Further, he had been considering raising = his’ circulation {prices to five cents daily. and 15

extinct, Public Ledger. 88 ” - HE GOT his first newspaper in | Springfield, Ill. When he sold that ihe took his capital, borrowed more, | and with a stake of about $300,000! bought the Camden Courier. Later he moved across the Delaware river and acquired the Phila-' |delphia Record. Mr. Stern believed in unions. The, Record was an open shop news paper. He says he had a terrible! time convincing his conservative Pennsylvania printers to join,unions, but he invited them in and] forced them to join.

Mr. Stern, now 60, got his first

Mr. Stern said that at the Record he was increasingly beset with

{threats. On his office bulletin board jwere frequent charges that his man-

agement was chiseling, evading the

‘terms of the contract, discharging | people without cause, and so on.

. » u

WHEN HE assigned members of this executive staff to handle the

buyers for the closed properties. bargaining, abuse would be turned

lon them.

#He brought in outsiders to do his bargaining, first Eugene MacKinnon of New York, labor relations 'adviser to A. N. P. A., then Gilbert

negotiate with him later on a con- 'F. Kraus, former attorney for the shape last fall.

late Sidney Hillman. Relations got ng, better. Each year’s contract which the |Record signed with the Guild brought new concessions, not only on pay, but on working conditions. Finally, employees had a Guild shop. The employer could hire janyone he chose, but every person hired had to become a member of {the Guild. | Mr. Stern thought new employees should be hired on trial for a year, {but this was. cut down to six months, 60 days, 30 days. Employees who were discharged |were given severance pay in in‘creasing amounts, so that anyone with 10 years’ or more service could receive 31 weeks pay on being discharged. 5 » ” IN THE 1938 Record contract, it 'was provided that economy could

Sale Of Philadelphia Papers. Raises

wi conventions in the ‘fight against Guild domination by New York Communists, Mr. Riordan is now secretary of the Guild. Its newly-elected president is Arthur Pierce, editorial writer on the Record. : ¥ tJ » THE GUILD leaders’ version of the troubles with the Record is entirely different from that of management. 4 The Guild charges Mr. Stern with being extremely difficult to deal with and of refusing to bargain on many issues. These charges are highlighted by a statement of Mike Harris, president of the Philadelphia-Camden C. IL. O. council. . In one of the last of the negotiating sessions held between the Record" amd the Guild, Mr. Harris told Mr. * Stern that he was “tougher than Tom Girdler.” ” n » EVENTS leading up to the recent ,ending”of the Record began to take The Inquirer's contract was due to expire Oct. 1, 1946. The Record’s contract expired Oct. 31. Guild leaders say the Inquirer management had never signed its contract, though it had 'ived up to its terms, The Record contract, says the Guild, was signed only a short time ‘before it expired, after a “no contract, no work” - threat had been made because it was charged the Record management had not lived up to the agreement. Negotiations began with the Inquirer about Aug. 1, and with the Record a month later. The principal demand made on both papers was for a $100 weekly minimum for experienced workers. This was the goal set by the National Guild at its 1946 convention. » » »

IT HAS BEEN reported that the

When the American Newspaper 'be considered cause for dismissal,’ [Guild “picked on” Mr, Stern's RecGuild movement came along in the but for the life of the contract no|ord as the “soft white underbelly" depression. Mr. Stern welcomed. it one should be dismissed except by! | against which the $100 a week mini-

as a craft union for editorial em-

|ployees. on

» | MR. STERN gave the Guild its {first contract. He was severely criticized by his fellow-publishers. He resigned from the American Newspape; Publishers’ association in protest. Then about 10 yedrs ago, when Mr. Stern says he was busy with the New York Post venture, the Guild stepped out and became an industrial union. It took in advertising solicitors, bookkeepers and all the other unorganized people in the newspaper business, That, says Mr. Stern, is where the

clal condition. Informed sources in|Cuild made its first mistake. And

that, says Mr. Stern, is where he made His big mistake. He didn't oppose this move which made a professional, craft union into an organization .in which the editorial employees would soon be dominated by non-editorial employees.

All too often they step from the dependent, care- cents Sunday, independently of the, n less bobby-soxer stage into a marriage partnership, other two papers. This was taken and “then get blamed because they aren't mature to be an admission of financial difenough to meet all the responsibilities that marriage ficulty.

forces upon them. -

The Guild apparently had no

” 4 THE STORY must now shift to the pattern of bargaining which was established in Philadelphia. When the Guild first came to the

The time for a man to send a girl home to mother knowledge of this condition, When|late Moe Annenberg, publisher of

to ow, ww is. before marriage iit ut it.

Mr. Siem ann

ouriced that he was'the Philadelphia Inquirer, and

agreement of the contracting | |parties. The Inquirer contract provided | fonly that the Guild might challlenge a dismissal througn an im- | partial arbitrator. But the Guild refused to 2ive this clause to the Record, threatening a strike if management insisted All these differences built up to a climax about a year before the war when Arthur Riordan, assistant telegraph editor of the Record, was elected president of, the Guild. After the election, the Infuirer carried a first page story stating that Mr. Riordan ‘was a member of the Communist party. » » » TO THE RECORD management, this looked like a smear against the Record and against Riordan. In the Record story on the elec. tion, it was stated that though Mr. Riordan had at one time been ‘a card holder, he was now an anti-

Communist, that he was a Catholic, |/* the

and that he was a leader 1 fight to keep Commies out of the Guild.

. Investigation reveals that. the Int-

ter may be nearer the correct ver-

sion. The Philadelphia union of the Guild has been a leader at Guid

mum attack would be launched. | Guild leaders say this phrase was used by a hothead at a Guild meeting, but it was not Guild policy. The provable facts are that strike votes were taken against both papers, but that the strike was called only against the Record. It began on Nov. 7. Negotiations with the two Philadelphia papers had begun with the Inquirer. = Sometimes “a second team” of Guildsmen met with the Record management. ~ In the face of the Guild's $100 minimum demand, Mr. Stern had countered with an offer to increase his. current minimum scale of $68 a week by $5 and $10 a week, for an average increase of 12 per cent.

possible: fot

aia 3 Sees a to qutinus opere,

dropped, there was no opposition, The Bulletin has no union in its