Newspaper Clippings, 1939-1943

Newspaper Clippings - Subject File Box 160 1939-1943 Box 160 31-181 PSF Tilpersonal ST. LOUIS COUNTY LEADE Southerner's Review of 'Gone With the Wind' "There was a land of cottonfields and cavaliers called the Old South. A land of lords and their ladies, of masters and slaves. Look not for them hereabouts for they are no longer to be found. Male and female, black and white, youth and aged, they r are all down to the picture show seeing 'Gone With E The Wind.' "Katherine Scarlett O'Hara was our heorine. A wihsome wench with a figger like a marble statue and a head as hard. Gerald O'Hara was her Pa. By 2 nature, he was almost animal-like. Proud as a pea- eock, he roared like a lion and rode like a dog and pony show. After Sherman eame, he was crazy as a bedbug. "Anyhow, Scarlett was in love with Ashley Wilkes, who was in love with his cousin Melanie, who was in love with Ashley, and so they were mar- ricd. (Ashley and Melanie, in case you're getting confused.) This irritated Searlett no end, and so, in rapid suecession she married, for spite and cash, respectively, a couple of fellers whose names we didn't get. But then, neither did Scarlett for long. "The other major characters were Rhett Butler, Belle Watling, and a colored lady exacty like the one on the flapjack box. Rhett, who somehow was strangely reminiseent of Clark Gable, was a eross between Jesse James and Little Boy Blue. Uncle Lum considered playing Rhett but turned it down when he found out there wsna't anything but mint in the mint juleps. "If Rhett had joined the Lost Cause in the sec- ond reel instead of after intermission, the Confed- cracy would have won the war. And Belle-you'd have loved Belle. Everybody did. "During the siege of Atlanta, only three things were running. Belle's place, Prissy's nose and the laundry that kept Rhett's white suits snow-white. Melanie's baby arrived about the same time Sherman did. Both were equally welcome to Scarlett. It was, so far as our painstaking research revealed, the first baby ever born in technicolor. "Anyway, the South lost the war again in the 8 f picture, (What could you expect with a lot of Yan- h kee producers!) and Scarlett married Rhett to get even with him. Their married life was just like setting in hell's fire and listening to the heavenly V choir. 0 "Finally, after Melanie died (the doctor's al- n ways right) Scarlett realized that she didn't love Ashley but Rhett. Scarlett was as changeable as a a baby's underwear. However, Bhett had had enough y of her foolishness and when she told him, be said, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't giye a damn,' Neither a by this time did the audience They were glad to r see the end, their own having become more than a semewhat númb from seats harder than & lady- lady's ."-Tombs County, Ga., Democrat. Where is the shipping to carry these men to come from, and to keep them supplied on thirty or more fronts? The expedition to North Africa is believed to have involved an initial force of not more than 140,000 soldiers. To take it to destination, 500 merchánt ships and 350 fighting ships were used, in a convoy operation described as the biggest in all world history. If it takes all that shipping and effort to move a force UCCESS in war depends upon men, of some ten divisions, comprising only 140,000 men, how long will it take us to move 7,500,000 men into theaters not money. of active war? And is there any point in doing so, con- DOUGLAS MacARTHUR: sidering that victories in this war to date, except on the Russian front, have been won by relatively small, highly trained, fast moving units of experts in the operation of Postwar Insurance tanks, planes and fighting ships? When Congress passed the teen-age draft bill, it added an amendment forbidding induction of men who had Well, we're learning the hard way how to fight this reached their forty-fifth birthday before-being called. It war. We didn't really begin to get ready for it until after is now reported that Congress may build on this founda- the fall of France, in June of 1940. Our preparations up to Pearl Harbor were pretty halfhearted, tion by enacting a law permitting Let's Stay with the President assuring us from time to any soldier of 45 or over to get a discharge from the Army on re- Prepared time that business need not be discomboom- erated while we built a first-class defense quest. machine. Such à provision seems to be What we hope most earnestly is that when our next needed, in view of the numerous war comes along we shan't have to start all over again and statements by Chief of Staff Mar- learn the hard way, with enormous wastes in money, mis- shall and others that men of 40 and placed manpower, and lost motion. up, no matter how patriotic, do not While we are talking about the brave new world to make the best possible soldiers. Un- follow this war, with Uncle Sami feeding the world while less they have been active soldiers his own people grow more prosperous each golden day, for years, their muscles and their let's also do some planning for a genuine system of na- minds are no longer limber enough tional defense in that brave riew world. Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief to be geared into the strenuous rou- We should have compulsory military training, every of Staff tines of modern warfare. able-bodied young man at age 18 or 19 to be subject Nor are these relaxations the only ones we need, by all thereto for a year. We should have a standing Army of the evidence we've seen. around 1,500,000 men, the rank and file trained to the Some 6,000 soldiers who were expert copper miners in skill of noncoms, and the officers' and noncoms' pay and civil life have been furloughed to go back and dig copper, living conditions attractive enough to induce them to It having- developed that not every Tom, Dick or Harry make Army life their careers. can practice that trade without previous training. We should have an air force big enough and good There is more and more talk about the need for fur- enough for the defense of this continent, or, preferably, loughing a lot of soldiers who were expert farmers in civil of this hemisphere; and a Navy of such size as the final life to go back to the farms and grow food for the armed lessons of this war may indicate we need to armorplate this continent by sea. forces, the civil population and our lend-lease clients to Adopt a sane system of preparedness after this war, eat. This talk had better crystallize into action pretty and stick by it, regardless of the almost inevitable post- soon, or we may have serious food shortages next year. war upsurge of pacifism, and we can save ourselves a There is further talk, apparently backed up by facts, world of blood, sweat, toil and tears when our next war that we are building too big an Army for this war any- comes. how. In the year lacking a few days since Pearl Harbor, (Copyright, 1942, News Syndicate Co., Inc.) we have shipped overseas a reported 800,000-odd fighting Now and then somebody asks why the publish the editorials of men. The figure is expected to reach 1,000,000 by the the New York Daily News in this column. Answer: end of 1942. Yet we are still building an Army of 7,500,- Because they are always interesting, well written and express a thought with which we agree. The owner and publisher of the 000. Washington Times-Herald La also a part owner of the News. THE EVENING STAR, The Political Mill The former President also Hoover Presents Program That Merits urges the utmost and enthusias- Fair Consideration for Conduct of War tic co-operation of civilians with the Government "with the least By GOULD LINCOLN. There was a War Council or War bureaucracy and force." The Almost on the eve of the gath- Cabinet in every principal nation Cites Soldier Figures. Government today is & mass of in the last war. There is one in He reminded the country that ering of the Republican National bureaucratic agencies-and all Committee in St. Louis to elect every principal nation in this 17 months after the onscription signs point to an increase in bu- a new chairman and to deal, war except the United States." Act was passed in the last war, reaucracy. No less a person than possibly, with Is there any good reason why 4,400,000 men were in arms, Leon, Henderson, head of the there should not be such a. war largely trained and equipped, and policies. in OPA, has warned the people council here? The answer is 2,000,000 of them had been car- the light of within the last few days they "no." Already there has been ried overseas. It is now 27 months the war, the must expect more and more of lack of proper co-ordination and since the present draft law was this. party and the country- co-operation in the absence, of passedd, and about 6,000,000 men. Mr. Hoover's final principle such & council. are under arms, though less than has received calls for the organization of all It has been responsible for, too a million are overseas. sound advice civilian activities for war "so as- many conflicting statements, Mr. Hoover's first principle was from the only to assure the return to economic living former emanating from too many agen- important. It is, he said, that and personal liberty the moment cies of Government with over- all civilian activities should be President the war is over." Too many per- lapping authority over ifportant directed by civilians within limi- Herbert Hoo- sons fear today that this is not ver, food ad- civilian activities. And, indeed, tations laid down by the legisla- the policy of the New Dealers ministrator there have been conflicts within tive body "Otherwise," he said, who have been seeking to extend the individual agencies of Gov- "we shall be a military dictator- Government control over civilian during the Gould Lineoln. ernment, due to the fact that the ship with all its implications." last activities-not just during the war. single administrator, with defi- Whether or not he had in Making full use of one of the war, but long before the war be- nite powers, has not been the mind a controversy which has gan. clearest and most analytical minds in the country, Mr. Hoover order of the day. existed over the handling of Program Suggested. manpower during the war, this laid down a dozen principles Would Avoid Regulation. Representative Bender of Ohio, principle certainly applies. The president of the National Feder- which should govern civilian Mr. Hoover's "eighth principle" American peóple would resent ation of Republican Clubs and economic organization for the to- bears repeating, for the failure turning this power over to the publisher of the National Re- tal war in which the United to live up to it already has the military. States is now engaged. He has country by the ears. It is: "The publican, has made public a Mr. Hoover laid stress on the done so in simple terms, logi- eighth principle is to do no more statement of policy for the guid- need of single-headed adminis- cally supported, which any one regulating than is necessary to ance of the Republican party trators for each of the civilian may understand. attain the major objectives. Fix- during the next two years; and activities; dealing with the war. has submitted it. to the national Mr. Hoover's recommendations ing of prices is necessary only on These administrators must be -as they may be considered- things the Government uses or committee for its consideration. given full authority to act within were given in an address to the that comprise the essentials of It deals with the war front, the scope of their pecullar fields the domestic front and with the National Association of Manu- the cost of living. To the great of activity. peace that must be made after facturers in New York. He made mass of the people, 95 per cent It would be as unwise, he point- this country has won the war. no attempt. to criticize the pres- of the cost of living lies in less ed out, to have more than one ent civilian organizations for than 40 staple raw materials, and He favors, among other things, commanding officer in a given war-except by contrast which with price control starting near the creation of & joint congres- civilian field of activity as it sional committee on the war ef- his own "principles" make mani- the source avoids a host of price would be to have more than one fort. fest-with one exception. That fixing and policing of non-essen- commanding general in & mill- Important particularly is a de- was in regard to the tremendous tials." tary field of operation. civilian set-up, with its 2,500,000 mand that the Republican party As War. Council. civil employes of the Govern- "continue its opposition to any As Mr. Hoover visualizes the negotiated peace with the dicta- ment-2,000,000 more than were proper organization of civilian tors and a pledge that the Re- required to do the job in the last organization for wat, the head publican party will support the war. administrators of all such major participation of the United States groups should constitute a war in a post-war peace program de- council, sitting directly with the signed to assure economic and President. political freedom to all the na- "Here alone," Mr. Hoover said, tions of the world." "the general economic and civil- Obviously If the Republican lan policies should be determined, party will support such a post- the conflicts and overlaps planned war program, isolationism is out with the President as umpire. dead, 9 President's Authority By Mark Sullivan Montgomery Ward Case SOME WEEKS ago ACIO. not for the country-but for Citl- union made certain demanda on zen B. The employer company is & well-known mail-order house, ordered to sign a contract enor- Montgomery Ward & Co., The mously to the benefit of the labor dispute went leaders. Doubtless Mr. Roosevelt before, the War and the Labor Board would My: Labor Board at Washington. The In fact they do say is a bene- Labor, Board St.to the country, a help in fight- handed down & ing the war, to make the labor decision; any or leaders and unions happy. to give denix The order required Mont them mainténance of union gomery, Ward. to membership But. a Tot: of our signs contract citizens; quite certainly's majoidE with the union ty/don't think that way at ou provisions of the SULLIVAN contract!! et Moteover, it is material to this dictatede by them Labory Board: labor leaders hapi Asi the board putrits The penë to be political allies of tionaló War Labor Boards directs President: their parties( toil incorporate the might, have Abeen Just following provisions 162 Montgomery and tive bargaining greement (complying with that orderá This contract Montgomery soft promptly hadi referred 152 to Ward rejected-they declined to the courts; and to-publie opinion, comply with thealabor: Board for.judgment When any citizen orderzi Their principal reason, is put under compulsion by govv the one they emphasized; was a ecument? be has a duty to him provision for a. kind of modified selfirand to their country, tor ink closed shop, called "maintenance quire into the validity of the of union membership. This compeller's authority provision, whilen did not re NJ quire- the company to employ union. members exclusively, SUPPOSE Montgomery Ward nevertheless required them to had done this, had respectfully fire any worker? who, having asked the President to excuse joined & union, dropped out of them à from obeying the War It-ceased to pay dues or what Labor Board's order.: What not. would the President have done? Upon the company's refusal to In similar cases, involving face sign: the Labor Board thundered tories doing war work, the Presi- rumbling threats. member dentibas sent the Army or Navy Mr.-Wayne L. Morse at a public to @take over the plant.: But. hearing, declared the board Montgomery Ward do not do war would use "whatever forces of work, certainly not to any ma- Government? aces necessary to terial extent-everybody knows compel, compliance what: Montgomery ards% bust- ness 1a For its "force, of Government Nevertheless, either, the Presi- the Labor enlisted the dent would have been obligedito highest The board referred the rescind his order, or send in the case: to- the President of the Armyn In that event, the coun- United States. try might have enjoyed an amus- President Roosevelt November Ing. experience.) might have ISA issued an order/to Montgom seens literal-minded rural cusit ery Ward.: He said. he was speaks tomers of Montgomery Ward die ing "as commander in chief in recting their orders thus: "Gen. time of war." Peremptorily the George C.A Marshall, Chief of President orderedrifI direct: Staff United States Army. Dear Montgomery Ward & Co. to com- Sirb Please send me: two milk ply without further delay. pails." and six/rolls of barbed At once Montgomery Ward re- wire plied; and complied. In 13 terse That would be funny. But It words the president of the com- would not be winning the war. pany wrote: "Your order of No- vember 18 has been received and will be promptly obeyed." ena THAT IS the story. It raises some questions. One is about the President's authority for re- quirteg Montgomery Ward to sign. He said be acted as "com-, mander in chief in time of war. Few will quibble over the fact that the Constitution makes the President merely commander in chief of the Army and the Navy. Almost any civillan will obey an order of the President In time of war That is, if the order is to do something for thelwar, for their us country Citizen A will obey an order for the benefit of the coun- try.19 So will Citizen B, and Clu- zen C, and D, and X'and Y. this case differs. In this izen A la ordered to do ** for ther war and OVERSEAS CAPS THE world-wide and stupidity of such episodes in a war to Impose freedom of expression "everywhere in the world and in our lifetime," could not happen If Byron Price or some of his assistants in Washington were able to pass on every piece of copy and use their common horse sense and newspaper experience to determine if a story gave military Information to the forces of the enemy: But that's physically impossible, Hence the "directives" and broad policy-making orders which go out to Individual censors who, in the case of press dispatches to foreign papers are Navy officers, The thought behind these broad orders and directives comes from on high. CAPITOL STUFF F.D.R., M every White House correspondent knows, thinks in his heart, and has often bluntly suggested, that be would have been a great managing editor or newspaper aditor if he hadn't decided to be a politician. By JOHN O'DONNELL Price. like Elmer Davis in OWI, is taking the rap for the political of the Office of Censorship Byron Price has ruled that censorship of Ideas. correspondents of foreign newspapers may send any report As Price correctly points out, be is responsible for all censorship orders and directives. back home to-their-readers which is factual and does not disclose But none of the associates of the newspapermen who shouldered military information but that editorial comments printed here the thoroughly disagreeable but necessary chore of censorship place which tend to emphasize disunity in this country Instead of stat- on his doorstep the responsibility for probibiting the British and ing the facts as they are" shall'be censored other correspondents from writing what In their trained opinion is an honest and fair report of public opinion in the United States. The attitude of the foreign correspondenta is that responsible That is exactly what is happening here "In our lifetime." editorial comment by important American newspapers is factual And responsibility resta directly on the doorstep of 1600 Penn- news and that the Washington correspondent: for a London news- sylvania Avenue, residence of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt paper, for example, assigned to and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hopkins: Interpret. American public opin fon to^his readers in England A MERICAN censorship of political Ideas and public opinion as now imposed on visiting observers by: our, yar. administration should be permitted to send ID amacks of course of the dictatorship gagging of news writers. There to his paper. are many in the White House clique who whole-heartedly approve Prices doesn' agree, And so. of this To them, the fact that you're fighting the devil is the best editorial comment. clipped from excuse in the world for taking up a permanent residence in hell the celumns of American papers with such widely different view W ASHINGTON correspondents who have worked in dictatorship polats as the New: York Daily lands agree with the comment of Alex H. Faulkner, correspond. News and the New York Post, ent In- the United States for the London Telegraph and Morning the Chicago Tribune and: New Post York Times, have been sup- "If we were reporting from Axis countries, this kind of thing and things infinitely worse would not surprise us," Faulkner writes pressed in the reports which In a round-up of the view of foreign correspondents on American BYRON PRICE foreign correspondents have censorship made by Editor and Publisher. He follows with the attempted to send, from this country to their papers abroad polite comment: Columnista Ray Clapper and Ernest Lindley reflect or influence & "If we did not all have such great pride in the traditions of freedom of speech and freedom of press which is common to the respectable section of public optnion in the United States. Yet a United States and Great Britain we would probably be less shocked British reporter tells me that when he recently incorporated quota than we are when we feel that these freedoms are being abridged tions from their columns in his piece for British readers the Ameri- more than the necessity of war demands." can censors- in' New York prevented him from putting it on the F. G. Alletson Cook points out that cable. "unhappily, all too often, bound by rules It seems. that the paragraphs written that day by Roosevelt and have not been able to take the line which occasionally they biographer Lindley and by Clapper, sincere supporter of the New have clearly thought was intelligent. Deal foreigni policy. struck the: American censor as dangerous Cook further points out that when "attacks have been made thoughts that must be kept from British eyes on the grounds that against Britain by responsible American writers we have not been they tendedt to emphasize; disunity" among the citizens of this allowed to transmit their views to London, so that (A) British republie, readers might know what was being said in America and (B) The chore tax giving foreign readers an intelligent picture of what fight in the Senate was all about was a tough one appropriate steps might be taken for the newswriters from abroad. They had been firmly instructed to remove false impressions." by the Price organization that nothing would be permitted to leave "I do not believe the American the borders of the United States by cable, radio or mail which in people to be immature children any way suggested that such & thing as & race problem could and I feel that is how In some possibly exist in this land of New Deal freedom. ways the censorship has been With this in mind, the reporters from abroad sat down and regarding them." Cook adds. aweated over their job of writing a poll-tax story for foreign, Chief of the British United enlightenment without suggesting that the reason for all the sound Press here, H. Hutchinson pays and fury in the Senate was the cold fact that a majority of Senators his respect to American censor- from Southern States are opposed to giving their colored populations ship with the challenge: the same political power enjoyed by the whites. "When censorshir is used as a One British reporter wrote the factual and innocuous observation screen to prevent free and re- ELMER DAVIS in his story that "Imposition of the poil tax has kept many persons sponsible criticism of political policy any correspondent who believes in the lower economic scale from voting, both colored and white." in a free press must object, and as loudly as possible." The censor reached for his blue pencil and struck out the final After looking over what the American censors did in New York phrase "both colored and white." to his pleces for the London Sketch, Hessell Tiltman utters the "I thought-you were told that any suggestions that there is a restrained and conservative Judgment: racial problem in the United States will be censored," the American "It is not unreasonable to assert shat Britain is not getting a tensor told the reporter from overseas. complete picture of the trend of American opinion. And Robert Walthman of the London News Chronicle declares that there is & point in censorship where "you ought to make & stand-- and that point is reached when the interpretation of what will help the enemy becomes so wide that the free exchange of ideas between close allies is Interrupted." Any Stick to Beat a Dog Still speaking of news. and how it is handled, too many of our newspapers have red faces today-or ought to have. They joined in with gleeful yelps to help Senators Byrd and Vandenberg make Old Deal hay with the slogan: "1-1071- PLOF-5-NOBU-SOS-WPB." That was just an example of "bureaucratic red tape" that was strangling the war effort, they said. Then along came Leon Henderson, head of OPA, who was the target of this particular nonesuch and pointed out that the mystic symbols on one of his forms had nothing whatever to do with the contents of the form-that they were merely a printer's code. Mr. Henderson blew up the story in time for the morn- ing papers of Thursday, and the Herald Tribune, at least, printed the explanation-well back on page 14. Mr. Henderson's simple explanation did not deter the World-Telegram from leading its editorial page all day Thurs- day with an editorial titled with the same symbols and be- ginning, "Yes, we have no idea what that means Mr. Henderson is a durable fellow and we doubt that he will lose any sleep because the newspapers gave him all the worst of it again. But we are in the newspaper busi- ness and we are troubled by such displays of unfairness, and irresponsibility. It doesn't do our business any good. 18 l'dRather Be Right By Samuel Grafton NEW YORK POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1942 I have the odd feeling that Sir William Beveridge's report on social security to the House of Commons will arouse more an- guished outcries here in America than In England. Latest dispatches, by cable and carrier pigeon, reveal that, so far, not a single English editor has burst a blood vessel. No has leered, scolded, or made bad jokes about college professors. So, the first point to be made about the Beveridge report is on the difference between England and America, as regards the tone of public controversy. Had such a state paper been Issued here, proposing, In sub- stance; that a. floor be placed under our economy, that no citizen ever be-allowed#to-have less than a certain named income, or: ever be permitted to go without medical care, or ever have to wonder how to pay for a baby, a great many feverish Irrelevancies would have been brought into the argument at once. We can easily Imagine that rumbling protest against the brain trust' which would have swelled from the hoarse organ of American public comment. It Follows From Dunkerque It is also a curious circumstance that America, which has a liberal administration, has had no Important social proposal offered to It for several years, while Britain, which has a conserva- five government, has just got Itself Involved in a major one. Why the difference? One of the reasons is Dunkerque. Eng- land has had its Dunkerque. We have not. I don't want a Dunkerque. But it was immediately after Dunkerque that social proposals began to flare up in England. A period of Intense self-examination began, to find the reasons for that huge military disaster. (At that very moment, America, remote from the war, was completing the bipartisan Congressional coalition against reform.) The English press began to question the English educational system, to wonder whether it allowed natural ability to rise to the top. The sober and extremely careful London Economist proposed, in 1940, an "economic bill of rights," adding the right to a secure life to the older right of free speech. Shortly after Dunkerque Sir William was commissioned, by the House of Commons, to make his survey of social security. But, begun on the Impetus of Dunkerque, the report is finally published during a period of military success. It is released at a moment when the English are feeling much better, much cockier, much stronger, when Mr. Churchill drops tart little comments about holding the empire which he would have preferred to swallow a year ago. They're Feeling Better Now So, here, in a- sense, is a United Nations test; whether, when we feel good, we can do the things we clearly saw to be necessary when we felt bad.. Now, a third point on the Beverldge report: It seems to me completely acceptable both by those who want fundamental social reform- to come out of the war and those who want nothing of the kind. Its most Important feature is unemployment Insurance, un- limited as to time during which benefits are paid, and without the requirement of a pauper's oath. Now, if we can end unemployment after the war, this feature of the plan will be self-canceling. If there is no unemployment, there will be no need for Insurance against unemployment, just as there is no need nowadays for insurance against dragons or were- wolves, though an enterprising fellow could have made a snappy living for himself selling such policies just a few hundred years ago, when dragons and werewolves were unavoidable dangers, as all sensible men knew. A Wager That We Mean It For that reason, If no other, one would like to see variants of the Beveridge plan adopted by all the United Nations. That would be a guarantee, by the whole community, of the seriousness of cur- rent promises to rout unemployment out of the world after the war. If the promise is kept, the Beveridge plan will largely cancel Itself out and cost nothing. If the promise is not kept, the cost of unem- ployment will then be carried by the community, as was the cost of the war, and not by individuals. The Beveridge plan backs up, with a money forfeit, all current speeches about ending want. That is its fundamental Importance. It makes our oratory good. So much for the courtesy part. Now for the calmness PSF which we hope the great majority of us will preserve while extending all the courtesy. We should be under no illusions newspaper as to the real purpose of the Royal visit. The Bill Their Majesties did not come for the DAILY NEWS Clificing Of Goods boat ride. They came, at the instance of Prime Minister Chamberlain, to sell the Telephone MUrray Hill 2-1234 American peòple a bill of goods. That bill of goods consists Published review Bonday by Ken Brodfests Ca. Too: ISS E. IN Berough of Manhattan, New in a strengthening of American-British ties to a point where York, N. T. Daily mail rates B. & Canada, $12.00 year. For the Daily News, D. a., $10.50 per pear: Canada, $16,00. President.J. MJ Pattarios, IL IL MrCormick: amount via we shall be willing to underwrite the British Empire against president and general DADAGE, Map c. Belline; ascretary. F. H. Fires, all of = L una ISL. New York, DEL Hitler, Mussolini and their, satellite buccaneer nations: MEMBER OF: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The British Empire (13,253,240 sq: mi.) is not confined to The Associated Press is exclusively certified to the cas for repobilication of all news 19,000,000 democratic Britons and Irishmen, 10,000,000 demo- disputches credited to IL or not other wise credi to this paper and also the local news published herein. AU rightsof republication of spécial dispatches berein also are reserved. eratic Canadians and 10,000,000 democratic Australians and New Zealanders. Their Majesties also rule over 357,000,000 Hindus; 60,000,000 African colored people, 4,000,000 Malay COURTEOUS BUT CALM ans, 2,000,000 British West Indians, 500,000 South Sea COURTEOUS BUT CALM Islanders, and large delegations of foreigners in Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Central America and South The Royal pilgrimage through Canada is a huge sue- America. Very few if any of these non-white or non-English cess to date. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are as British subjects enjoy the blessings of democracy. gracious and democratic a pair of sovereigns as could be So let's remember, while warmly welcoming the King imagined, and the way they and Queen, that it is really Mr. Chamberlain who is visiting are reselling the Empire to us; and let's keep clearly in mind what he wants to sell us. the Canadiana is something to behold. We think we should be wary, too, about the proposed- Royalist sentiment is also mounting by the min- RETURN VISIT ute in the United States, in anticipation of Their Ma- -of President Roosevelt to London sometime next year. jesties arrival here early The President, like most strong men, is not noted for ask- next month: We know, be- ing or taking advice. So we don't offer advice in this matter. cause almost all our friends We merely express the earnest hope that and acquaintances in the Wilson the President won't make such a trip until after nation are asking us please to get them invitations to Did It he has ceased to be President. There would be nothing illegal or improper some public. party, private King George VI Queen Elizabeth about a return visit to the King and Queen. But the thing binge, parade or picnie could not be kept purely social. Inevitably, it would have where they can see the King and Queen. political repercussions and overtones-and these would add All this is O.K. by us. If professedly republican Amer- up to serving notice on the dictators that the United States icans, like most other people, enjoy standing in awe of the and Great Britain were now in a virtual military alliance. divinity, that doth hedge a king, who are we to complain We think we speak the sentiments of the great majority We hope Their Majesties are as hospitably received here as of Americans when we say that such an alliance is not in Canada, and believe they should be. wanted here, for all the blood ties and fellow feelings which Just one suggestion. The visit is admittedly a good- unquestionably obtain between Americans and Britons, will visit. Well, then, why shouldn't the King and Queen President Woodrow Wilson's postwar trip to Europe was arrange to be seen by as many people in the United States disastrous to Wilson, to the hopes of a just peace, and to a as possible We mean, why not display their charming large extent to Wilson's own country. We hope President personalities and gracious miens in big parades (maybe up Roosevelt will ignore the sirens² yodelings and stay home Broadway and down Pennsylvania Ave.) and at great public gathering places ? Why should they be confined to compara- tively small garden parties for 1,300 carefully chosen guests, private junkets, and so on? A MOXOW E C10/ MO, X $ o, CROMWELL, CROMWELL! HAD I BUT SERVED MY COUNTRY WITH HALF THE ZEAL I SERVED MY KING, "WOULD NOT IN MINE AGE HAVE LEFT ME NAKED TO MINE ENEMIES HENRY VIII ACT III SCENE II. Cromwell SIDNEY HILLMAN king Henry YIII FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Wolsey HENRY WALLACE Ann Bullen Miss FOURTH TERM. RR THE NEW DEAL GOES SHAKESPEARE Times Herald 24 Julin TOP SECRET 14 fill THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1952 THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL L. W. NIEMAN, Founder, 1882 Published by The Journal Company H. 1. GRANT. Chairman of the Board M. H. CREAGER, President and Editor J. FERGUSON, Vice-President and Associate Editor In the opening sentence of this article we L L BOWYER, Vice-President and Publisher said this is founded on the good common J. KEATING Vice-Prosident and Production Mgr. sense of Lincoln, and it is. The whole mat- ter was outlined in that special message to RATES. Carrier delivered and street - daily 3 cents, Sunday 10 cesta. State and foreign mail rales - application. congress which President Lincoln delivered on July 4, 1861. Lincoln had faced through PHONE MARQUETTE 6000. Private telephone eyolem. four perilous months the problem of dealing Address all correspondence be specific person of department. with a treason which was trying to disinte- grate the Union. Judge Duffy Sees the Way The great humanitarian among our presi= dents had gone to Washington to find that Federal Judge FR Ryan Duffy, applying the arms of the United States army had been the good common sense of Lincoln to the war) mysteriously shipped to southern states by situation, refused to set. free - citizen. of secession, minded men in the war depart- Japanese extraction who had, left: the west ment; that our naval vessels had been- dis coast in- violation of a military order This persed to all quarters of the globe so they Japanese-American will be sent back to face would not be at home to resist rebellion. Hel the consequences. found that through, 'more than 30 years" of The order promulgated by the commander propaganda-an insidious "drugging the of war area No. 1 was for the protection of public mind"-a situation had been created the nation: It was meant to prevent spies in which not only the south but many states bordering on the south were full of citizens and saboteurs from doing to the west coast, disloyal to the core. in case of invasion, what saboteurs and spies Lincoln, with the problem of Fort Sumter did to Hawaii. The army, in consultation dumped in his lap on the very day he took. with the FBI, which knew the great diffi- the oath of office, moved to save the Union culty of separating loyal from disloyal Jap- by: making expenditures that were not au- anese, had decided that the only way to bei thorized, calling men to arms without au- safe was to put all Japanese and Japanese- thority of congress and clapping disloyalists Americans under restraint: in jail without benefit of habeas corpus. And This Japanese-American, one Kanai, had he had done, now he was reporting to congress on what chosen to make a test. He had left war area No. 1 without permission, although he well knew that provisions were set up for grant- Lincoln. In his report posed the question whether he should have lef America be de- ing permission to loyal citizens who might stroyed by observing every fine point of law have business elsewhere. If he wanted to and every guarantee of the Constitution. He attend a YMCA meeting at Williams Bay, asked if it was wrong for him to use such he could have applied for the proper au- thorization limited extent" some law "made in such means as he had by "violating to a very The FBI arrested him at Williams Bay and extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty now Judge Duffy was being asked to set that practically it relieves more of the guilty asidera military order in order to give this than of the Innocent. He pointed out that defier of our war precautions his freedom. if he had allowed the nation to sink, there The usual nonsense-in wartimes, nonsense would have been no Constitution -of such organizations as the American Lincoln, the greatest of all our exponents Civil Liberties union was urged in court in of democracy, posed the question for all his behalf. It was urged that constitutional time, just as in his career he touched and rights must be observed no matter what hap- illumined all the questions this country had pens, that these rights are in effect even or could have, The congress of his day saw paramount to the nation's safety. the point and responded-just as the con- Judge Duity rejected such specious pleas gress of today, the citizens of today and the and cut right to the heart of the matter in Judges of today should respond. this sentence: "This coart should not set itself up M & mill- Judge Duffy sees, too, that the nation's tary board of strategy." safety comes first. In other words, if the military authorities on the west coast believed the order was necessary, the court would not interfere. And the judge buttressed this by poiriting out that "constitutional rights of the individ- ual in wartime are not absolute, butrelative." The judge had said at an earlier hearing of the same case that "the rights we have in peacetime must give way to the general good In wartime." file THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, Farmers Want No Gold Bricks ao not pretend to know all about There is ground for difference of the New Deal statutes enacted under opinion as to the methods and de- Roosevelt's leadership. But. one thing tails of putting a ceiling on wages, I do know. Whereas before those laws profits, salaries and farm products, got into operation, as a: farmer I was but. there is no justification for the losing money and disaster stared me and attempt to prejudice) the farmers other. farmers in' the face. Now prices give farmers a profit, they no longer faca against Mr. Roosevelt by the political starvation and the probability of .losing talk that "he is the enemy of the their farms, and can enjoy comforts de- 1 farmer. That well-greased propa- nied them before the New Deal. Where- ganda is an insult to the intelligence as 1 was then on the verge of bank- ruptey in farming operations, now I see of the men who till the soil. They prosperity. Like the blind man, I may know-better than the political not understand the processes, but I do propagandists-that when Roose know how blessed are the results. velt became- President they were President Roosevelt expects every broke. Their products were selling man in city and country-on the on the market for less than the farm and in the factory-to make cost of production; thousands were sacrifices in this all-out war. It can- seeing their farms sold at auction not be won without full cooperation for their debts, and agriculture was and readiness to practice self-denial. at the bottom of the worst depression The farmers who recall-and they all that had ever afflicted it. The up- recall-the condition in 1929-32 and turn did not happen. The change the improvement brought about by from starvation prices to prices of the Roosevelt policies know that profit came about directly from the the propagandists, who are trying to New Deal legislation. If Hoover or poison their minds against the chief some reactionary Democrat had been executive who has done more for elected in 1932, the better days would agriculture than any of his predeces- not have come. sors, are insulting the intelligence When Reactionaries, who did and gratitude of the farmers of everything they could to prevent the America. agricultural recovery, by Roosevelt In this hour; all should be fed laws, brought Senator Tydings out of the same spoon-labor, agri- (bringing bad tidings) to Raleigh to culture, industry, salaried men. The voice antagonism to the remedies hardest task the President has is to which lifted farmers out of the ditch, prevent profiteering by the big con- a reactionary Democrat asked the cerns having war contracts. Given late Dr. Wallace- Riddick, who was legislation that will empower him a farmer as well as able engineer to deal with all, the farmer will and college president, what. he ind that it is used in « way that thought of the New Deal measures will not only continue profitable which the Reactionists were oppos- prices during the war but will pre- ing. The answer was ent the collapse which followed Speaking as a farmer; who has been- fter the World War. losing money on my farm, I am like the The farmer is no sucker. He can- blind man who was given his vision ot be induced to mistrust the man in by the Saviour. Asked how he received his sight, the blind man said that all the White House who has been his he knew was that whereas he did not best friend and will continue to see see before the miracle, that after it he that he is saved from another de- received his sight, pression. The farmers are not in the mar- ket for gold bricks and will turn a deaf ear to the detraction of the man in the White House 44 ABROAD NEWSWEEK, APPIL 10. 1944 ish Diet was summoned into a special When Germany Falls of its eastern provinces up to the Curzon session. Line, which Russia is determined to The story seemed to be that the Rus- Russia and Poland Stand to Gain keep. Thus, if this was done, there would sians had proved unexpectedly liberal be no "Corridor" after the war and Poland and patient in their dealings with the by Allies' Plan for Postwar Reich would obtain what it has long been Finns, making concessions in their origi- striving for: a broad waterfront on the nal terms that made them far more aoj The story was really broken by The Baltic. ceptable to Finland. It was all part of London Observer-the details of the 00- Moscow is known to favor some such significant development in Soviet policy cupation agreed upon by President arrangement and London apparently has by which the Kremlin appeared to Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and accepted the principle of it, while the making every effort to draw such Cer- Premier Stalin at the Teberan conference. United States has not yet manifested its man satellites as Finland and Rumabia But it was not really new. It had been intentións in the matter. away from the Reich at the moment known in London for some time. Pre- when such action would injure the Nazis sumably, it had been discussed by the the most. European Advisory. Commission. Ameri- Mongolian Incident can correspondents had cabled what they In the wild and mountainous north- No Poles, Please could of it. But the newest version gave eastern corner of Sinkiang, near the Altai the most concrete account so far. These Mountains, local Chinese authorities be- The French Committee of National were the occupation terms to be imposed gan foreibly transferring some of the Liberation smarted from a new, diplo- on the Reich: Kazak (Mongolian) settlers southward. But matic slap last week. What hurt most € Russian forces are to occupy all of a number of the settlers objected and fled was that it came from a nation Gen. Eastern Germany up to the Oder. over the border into the Mongolian Charles de Gaulle believed to be a true € The British are to march into North- People's Republic. Thereupon, Chinese friend. For while Britain and the United western Germany. troops chased them, broke into Mongo- States had held back recognition of the € Bavaria, Saxony, and Württemberg lian territory, and from airplanes fired on committee as exile government of France, will come under United States jurisdie the refugees and Mongolian localities. Russia had recognized its claims. Now tion. Mongolian troops then repulsed the in- the Soviet treated the French to la blunt < Only the capital, Berlin, will be jointly vaders. example of present-day Kremlin diplo- occupied by troops of the three powers. That was the story told this week by macy. Algiers reported that Russia had € The question of who should garrison the Moscow radio, in a dispatch from refused to accept the diplomatic agent Austria, whose independence was Ulan Bator (Red Hero), capital of whom the committee had chosen to rep- pledged at the Moscow conference, had Mongolia. The events, it said, took place resent it in Moscow-Gaston Palewski, not been settled, but recent discussions at the end of 1943. But the curious thing chief of de Gaulle's political staff. favored a mixed occupation force (see about the Moscow piece was not the fact map) that the news came out so late but, in- Palewski: A behind-the-scenes politi- stead, the stem warning that was tacked cal figure in peacetime France, Palewski Vanishing Corridor: It was further on the end. Still quoting the Ulan Bator belongs to an émigré Polish family. For understood in London that Russian DO- dispatch, the Moscow radio cited leading eleven years he was a close associate of eupation of Germany east of the Oder Mongolian officials as being "firmly con- Paul Reynaud and served as his political would eventually lead to annexation of vinced" that should such violations of adviser when Reynaud headed the last some, If not all, of these territories by a the Mongolian territory by Sinkiang government of the Third Republic. Rus- Dew Poland, in compensation for the loss troops recur, then the Soviet Govern- sia presumably disliked de Gaulle's choice for one main reason-he was a Pole. For General de Gaulle, this was just NORTH SEA BALTIC SEA Königsbei another of many disappointments that DANZIG EAST PRUSSIA have marked 1944. On March 27, the JOINT RUSSIAN- Grodne General lashed out at the Allies in an AMERICAN-BRITISH address to the Consultative Assembly in OCCUPATION TO BE OCCUPIED Algiers. Referring to his committee as the BY RUSSIANS Bremen "Provisional Covernment of the Repub- BERLIN Poznan lic," he announced that it "does not need GERMANY WARSAW any lesson from anyone but the French P 0 L A N nation that it is entrusted to lead." TO BE OCCUPIED BY BRITISH On Moving In: Five days later, the Oder CURZON committee's defiant attitude toward the IDAIN LINE Allies was even more strongly illustrated Frankfort by the publication of a law it adopted last TO BE OCCUPIED Przemysi Eracow March 14 asserting its right to take over BY AMERICANS control of French liberated territory whether or not the Allies like it. In es- CZECHO Stuttgart DARUS SLOVAKIA sence, the law provided that immediately on the liberation of territory, commission- Ulm River ers appointed by the committee for each Munich VIENNA PROBABLE JOINT theater of operations would take over RUSSIAN-AMERICAN both the civil and mílitary administra- (SWITZERLAND, BRITISH OCCUPATION tion. AUSTRIA This scheme was in direct conflict with President Roosevelt's recen* reported de- cision to leave to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower the choice of which authorities he Moreland would deal with in liberated France. Sume Bue day the Allies hope to occupy Germany on these lines or It day up On the Record wash Slar Jan 7thDorothy Thompson cer- A number of further observations may And that the American Army, at this cise unusual discipline in the forthcom- sense. be made concerning the statement re- moment, should have to use the ener- ing election campaign it will be made amor. garding strikes supposedly made by Gen. gles of its members to administer the to order for our enemies. To dare to if it Marshall. railroads as well as plan a great in- hold a presidential election at the cli- track. First, Gen. Mar- vasion is scandalous. max of a war is to court catastrophe. none shall's statement was What is going on in the minds of our Nothing could make it tolerable except To not made for publi- soldiers will bear directly on their be- the elimination of the most contro- learest, cation. If. he had havior in the war, and it also will influ- versial issues, both foreign and domestic, that wished: to make a I ence their political behavior when they & voluntary curbing of every tongue and soon public statement on get home.: Many of them are very a the creation of so harmonious a spirit ED. a matter SQ touchy; young and the war has been the decisive that none would greatly care: who was he would, no doubt, experience of, their lives, forming their elected, and the election be essentially have written it and whole attitude toward American society. but the maintenance of a tradition. 1 requested to be Physicians tending wounded soldiers c quoted exactly. Since tell' me that, reading the papers, they uary 2, a version was re- are becoming bitterly antilabor, even de- sed on ported in the press, nouncing their own laboring fathers. But there are no signs of any such by the I have talked with At the same time, in such hospitals as inhibitions among opposition party those at Atlantic City and Miami, they leaders. Apparently we shall have poli- F two participants in orig- the conference. who are outraged by the display of luxury tics as usual-which is worse than busi- it the gave a quite differ- amongst vacationers and infurlated by ness as usual Instead of Democrats eclares ent account of what he said. This lack the war profiteering and Republicans meeting to bury their o ruling of respect for his wishes may eventually tomahawks, they are already manufac- C. neet the turing poisoned arrows for the quad- Si force him to make a. public statement the sec- rennial battle, and exacerbating every E where he did not wish to do so. The inevitable result of such revulsion :ttacked Mr. Rickenbacker has not improved rift while they piously talk about the M must be a drift toward stern leadership hearings the situation by following up the inci even of a dictatorial nature. necessity of unity. b iving the dent with the suggestion that "Gen. Nothing is being helped, either, by a The candidate in the Republican on these Marshall is the type of man who should renewal of the prohibition campaign, ranks who has most consplcuously be- 1: be the next President of the United by the same kind of bigoted minority haved as a responsible citizen of the :es which States," thereby introducing politics into who organized the movement last time Republic, the only American civilian hat the the picture with a thrust at the Presi- while millions of American men were who is almost as familiar to the soldiers he quali- dent and Commander in Chief. still mobilized. as the President, and who has the con- 2 privi- Then, however, prohibition could be fidence of the governments of our Al- Condi- Gen. Marshall must have good reasons described as "an experiment noble in lies, Wendell Willkie, stands at the bot- class not to wish to open a raucous debate. tom of the party's favor; not because of purpose." Today the word describes ented Among our troops anger and even fury the era of crime. And it is a fighting of his faults but because of his virtues. gued at the behavior of the civilian popula- word for American troops, to whom the Mr. Willkie who is for unity among :ides. st tion is spreading. The effect which the blue-noses attempting to protect their the Allies, believes that unity begins nent tc strike threats and many other things "morals," are school marms reducing at home. That is too much for those LS to M might have on Axis strategy is negli- to the status of childhood, youths whom who would risk losing victory for the st laga- gible compared with the direct effect Guadalcanal, the Aleutians, North Republic to achieve victory for Repub- ider- re they have on the morale of our own Africa and Salerno have prematurely licanism-which without the Republic fact bi troops who shortly are to be put to a made into men. would need another name, al gigantic test. TS, Also, unless the political parties exer- (Released by The Bell Brndicate, Inc.) nt. The Great Game of Politics It is not often that statements on In fact. these indire 'er public affairs not attributable directly the firs dire ortant public figures ring the matter SAT Describes Working of Law prohib) Under the present law, Mr. Far- trainin ley said, a service man or woman over 1€ FARLEY CENSURES must send in an application to the Ing as commission. who then will send period, ballot to the applicant. The ap- a charged plicant then must fill out the bal- days at SOLDIER VOTE LAW is a voter before an attesting lot and take an oath that he or ahe and a $A. eligible ficer. All this, he declared, would of- The be who is to tell the service man that take time, without considering the State Gov. Wa he must make an application. dered In Dewey Program a "Deception on Men and Women in the that a war ballot will be sent upon The "liberalizing interpretation" been excil equal sure presentation of a letter to a. rela- They, to Armed Services," He Says tive in which a service man ex- "given an pressed a desire to vote, he said, perience in will necessitate further interpreta. The sessio terpretation would be made If tions. Mr. Farley saiced what In- row. CHANGE NOW IS DEMANDED letter should be signed "Your low a 3 CAND Bill: Ing son, Arthur," or "With love, Coca-Cola Governor Urged to Call: a have the War Ballot Commission The simple way would be to Cleared Special Session at Albany voter of the State whose send a. war- ballot to every. war ATLANT G: Candlet to Amend Statute home address and military address name, founder of was furnished by any relative, Mr. pany, and hl Farley. added, This, he asserted. quitted in Fé Characterizing the present State War Ballot Law as a "monstroalty. stitution and eliminate red tape would comply with the State Con- charges that to defraud, cilities. and & burden on transportation fa- A jury, w/ a reservoir of ambiguities and a that laundry deception of the men and women The second and very important lers charged in the armed services," James A. unfair to the war voter is that the count on which the Deway law is ance but carr ley, returned Farley, Democratic State Chair- man, called upon Governor Deway war voter's ballot must be back in er several he last night to call & special session H. H election day," Mr. Farley said. Albany by Nov. 3, four days before the elder Cand H. Candler, 38 of the Legislature to amend the where "You can readily see that it will E. Marvin Us law to make it workable. be necessary for most war voters verdict of acq) Mr. Farley, whose speech from WA to make their choice of candidates Samuel Candi Radio Station WABC broadcast in several weeks before election day Federal acci Candlers follow over a State-wide network of the order that their ballots Columbia Broadcasting System. CA reach Albany by Nov. 3. That may pro- court wherelf spoke In reply to Governor Dewey. fighting for his country. vision penalizes a service voter for $200,000 to sa customers who who & week before in a speech that under Republican War Ballot "Let me remind my listeners in a fire which over the same stations called the dry. The claif law "& perfectly simple solution" Bill laws in force during the past two to the war-ballot problem. Leg. years the service men and women ARRESTED Mr. Farley said that almost. 20 per cent of the voting population overseas were permitted to fill out of New York State was serving in their ballots right up to election Cemetery $ the armed forces, that they were day, and their ballots were valid 16-Year-O entitled to vote and that the ma- and were counted If they reached the War Ballot Commission by Isadore Dia jority of the people of the State to Dec. 10." TR 1029 East Tel wanted to have opportunity. vote in the easiest way possible one Hyman Blumberg, State secre- was arreste by N tary of the American Labor party, cemetery ge "Selfishness" is. Assailed that announced that the party had Queens, for "There may be some who can State started distribution of 300,000 stock transe see political advantage in making rathe postcard applications for war bal- teen years. it difficult for the armed forces the C lots among relatives of those in the Diamond, to vote," he said. "If this is so. it is armed services with a request that now a. saled those acting from such an unfair land they be signed. A. circular accom- was Indicte and un-American motive should was panying the cards characterized County, up be speedily repudiated. Partisan ing Bay the present State law as "a dis- with transa selfishness must not be permitted Mode) graceful partisan attempt to de- of $5,600. to create & roadblock against the tiona prive the men and women In the Detective will of those unselfishly giving State services of their right to vote." George Bré their all for our safety." social nized Diami Mr. Farley quoted Governor "As Rother's Conviction Appealed from a Fedi, Dewey as saying that "every coe Notice of appeal was filed yes- gation phot soldier can be provided with & bai- panta terday afternoon at the Richmond Diamond is lot which will be valid under our embre County District Attorney's office, Police Heade Constitution," and asked why the that St. George, 8. I., from the convie- Governor did not say:- "Every thing tion of Adam A. Rother, 41-year- Elected to S soldier will be provided with a bal- Engli old Coast Guard (J.g.) lieutenant, Mrs. Walt, lot." He asserted that the changes nition now serving & life sentence In Sing Paul Pryibil teratis Sing Prison for second-degree mur- of the New Yes in the rules made during the last Mr. der. The notice, served by Rother's advisory board few days by the War Ballot Com- legisla mission constituted admission that ficial Reigi, asked for a review of the attorneys, Nicholas and Emil J, terday In the Broadway. Mr the law was faulty and that the Jerse "liberal interpretation" of the law conviction by the Appellate Divi- man of the was the A the organizatio announced by William T. Simpson, Brooklyn. sion of the Supreme Court in the campaigns for chairman of the commission, tened and welfare sei showed that the statute was not clear and left the way open for phobix "Th any person to protest the tallying said, of all goldier ballots. ward Mr. Farley said Mr. Simpson's estimate that the service vote langual would be about 225,000 Indicated becaus that three out of four In the armed differ The services would find it too difficult to exercise their right to vote. He seventy to the added that Mr. Simpson unwitting- Others ly confessed that his estimate was teachir too high by ordering only 200,000 in all postcard ballot applications chapping Roosevelt's Pilot on 9,764-Mile Teheran Trip was about exhausted and then re- turned to their base. President Sees Pyramids. Reveals Flight Once Missed Fighter Escort On the approach to Cairo, the plane flew down the Nile, Maj. By JUSTIN D. BOWERSOCK because the fighters couldn't stay fighter escort would be used to pro- Bryan making several "off course" KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 12 with us if we went on instruments. tect the planes of the two generals. circles to afford the President a view (NANA) As we approached DJ1- The field had been closed to all of the pyramids. djellt, Gen. Eisenhower, who was in The flight of the President's plane traffic, and we, had planned to taxi the big four-engine Army transport would take it north of Tunis and There was some question whether the co-pilot's seat, noticed a twin the President could make the flight engine airplane of apparent French plane: out and take off as soon as then east to the Nile River, thence from Cairo to Teheran. He wanted design approaching our plane from possible. north to Cairo. Since the arrival to fly, but there were conflicting 2, o'clock and at approximately our No. sooner had the President's level. at the Nile would be after daylight reports on the necessary altitude at plane taken to the air than the "One fighter immediately went it. was agreed a fighter escort would which to make the flight, some esti- fighters raced down the runway and climbed upward, protecting the meet the President's plane at the mating the plane would have to down and- warned the plane away, most vital cargo in the air. Soon point where it reached the Nile, near reach a height of 18,000 feet So but the pilot continued toward us. the President's plane, the P-39s and El Minya to give the necessary cover Maj. Bryan took another plane for "After his apparent disregard of the warning, three P-39s immedi- into Cairo. a survey trip to determine the neces- British fighters were on their way. The weather was good that night, sary elevation. If it should be nec- ately peeled off in a dive toward the The aerial convoy headed out. to intruder. Remembering the in- and the plane raced along at 7,000- essary to cross the mountains at sea. Then, in Maj. Bryan's words, foot altitude In raGio silence. It an extremely high altitude, the structions given the fighter pilots the flight was routine until they the day before, I expected to see the encountered the lone Frenchman, arrived at El Minya. But where President would be flown to Abadan plane shot down. were the fighters? For 15 minutes and then go by train to Teheran. who perhaps still wonders what it was all about. it circled. Then it was decided to On the morning of November 27 "However, about the time the go on without escort. The trouble the plane took off for an uneventful three fighters started their dive, After changing the fighter escort the pilot saw them coming and at Djidjelli, the party again headed was the fighter escort interpreted trip in beautiful weather to turned away. It was a close call out to sea. the meeting time at 6 o'clock in the Teheran. for the Frenchman." In order to give the President a morning, local time, which was two "The course on this leg of the That is part of the official report view of the battlegrounds in the hours earlier than Greenwich mean journey took us over the Suez of Maj. Otis F. Bryan of Kansas Tunis area, Maj. Bryan made several time. They had waited for the Canal," Maj. Bryan related, "and President's plane until their fuel to make the trip a little more inter- President Roosevelt and Maj. Otis Bryan, who flew the President into the combat zone In North Africa. -A. P. Photo from the Navy. City to Maj. Gen. Haroid La. George circles before landing, just six hours on Maj. Bryan's second, and most after the take off from Oran. recent, flight with President Roose- Night Flight Necessary. velt as a passenger, to the historic conference in Teheran. In a pilot's words again, the next TWA Official in Private Life. leg of the flight from Tunis to Cairo would be "routine." It had been Sitting in the living room of his Kansas City home, Maj. Bryan, who originally planned to depart from Tunis early November 21, but instead as a vice president of Transcon- tinental & Western Air directs the a change was made to the evening of the same day, making a night flight. operations of the intercontinental Gen. H. H. Arnold and Gen. George division, related the incident as just C. Marshall decided to make the one of many experienced. during the early take off in their transports and 52½ hours in which the President since the President's plane would be was flown 9,764 miles. flying under cover of darkness the On the last flight. he was com- missioned & major in the Army Air Forces Air Transport Command Once the flight: was. over, /he was back. in civilian clothes, but in re serve and readys for, another flight if the President chooses to go, "You see there was some concern over the security phase of the mis- sion from Oran to Tunis, he re- lated. "We all discussed It after our arrival at Oran While we were there, P-39 fighters arrived for lo- cal coverage and to cover the flight to Tunis. "The plans were that P-39's would act as cover from Oran to Tunis. Inasmuch as Tunis was beyond the fighter's range, we planned to change fighter escort at Djidjelli: Fighters Told to Shoot. "We summoned the fighter element leaders and instructed them that if any aircraft came within three miles of the President's plane, one fighter was to warn it. away. In the event it persisited in coming within the three-mile limit, the plane was to be shot down." On. the night of November 19, Maj. Bryan was invited to a dinner at the headquarters of Gen. Arthur Wilson. The other guests were Gen. Eisenhower, Maj. Gen. Thomas B. Larkin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., Elliott Roosevelt and several others. One can easily realize the respon- sibility of a pilot when he has a passenger list made up of President Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Admiral William D. Leahy, Gen. Elsenhower, Maj. Gen. E. M. Watson, Rear Ad- miral Ross McIntyre, Rear Admiral Willson Brown, Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., Mike Reilly (Secret Service man), Guy Spaman, Charles Fredericks and Arthur Prettyman. Maj. Bryan had his crew remain at the field all night in preparation for the flight the next day. The fighter units, which had been aug- mented by British fighters with sufficient range for the trip to Tunis, were checked along with the weather and briefing. The presidential party arrived at the plane at 9 o'clock in the morn- ing. Took Mediterranean Route. "The weather was marked by a rather low overcast at about 2,000 feet, and there were rain showers about half the way to Tunis," Maj. Bryan related. "Because of such weather conditions we had to make our route out over the Mediter- ranean, instead of the inland route, esting for the President we flew over plane, a high frequency unit to allow and -circled Bethlehem Jerusalem contact with the fighter planes. THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. A-15 and Jericho.". SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1944. "Since the President wanted to Sees Turkish President. see the North African battlefields," and 55 minutes later. P-38 fighters From the day: of the arrival in carry out the missions of the Presi- Maj. Bryan said, the trip between accompanied the party At Malta Teheran, November 27, when Presi- dent, The total flying time on the Cairo and Tunis was made by way the first, and only, mechanical diffi- dent Roosevelt, Marshall Stalin and trip was a little more than 162 hours. of El Alamein, Tobruk and Bengasi. culty occurred on the plane, an in- Prime Minister Churchill went into Since the war started Maj. Bryan The President viewed the North operative regulator valve on the conference, until December 2; the has made two dozen ocean crossings. African scenes carefully, as the hydraulic system. It resulted in a (Copyrisht, 1944, by the Kansas City Star crew was busy making preparations events of this phase of the campaign two-hour delay. and North American Newspaper Alliance.) for the return flight. They were are still written in the desert sands. Because of the mechanical delay, invited to the ceremony at which The desert was strewn with wrecked the visit of the President at Castell- Mr. ChurchilF presented the sword and abendoned instruments of war. vetrano, Sicily, was limited to an of honor to Marshal Stalin. Tank tracks were plainly visible, hour, and instead of flying to Mar- President Roosevelt had expressed their circular sweeps telling the rakech, the plane went direct to a desire to fly to Turkey to visit graphic story of flanking move- Tunis. The following day the plane President Inonu, but it was decided ments." hopped from Tunis to Dakar, with a flight by: the President into a The arrival at Tunis was at 2:45 fighter escort. "That was just rou- neutral country should not be made. o'clock, December 7. tine." Maj. Bryan said. When he arrived in Cairo on the The President got his wish for the All in all, Maj. Bryan and his way back, he was visited by Presi- kind of visit he wanted in Malta- crew flew the plane 29,789 miles to dent Inonu. but it was no fault of his. Local After the visit with the Turkish theater officers had allowed so much President and it was agreed a trip time for the visits in Sicily and to Naples was too risky for Presi- Malta that an after-dark landing dent Roosevelt. an alternate flight would be necessary at Marrakech. was arranged so that the President There was concern about a night could visit Sicily and Malta, a flight flight in that theater. requiring considerable fighter escort. The departure from Tunis was at It was necessary to have a special 7 o'clock the morning of December radio installed in the President's 8. and arrival at Malta was an hour New York Post FOUNDED IN 1801 BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON Published daily except Sunday by New York Post, Inc., 75 West Street, New York. WHitehall 4-9000 Entered as 2d-clase matter at Post Office, New York DOROTHY 3. 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December 7 They're Still At It Now that we know the grim story of a year 'ago today in But, unfortunately, these men are still with us, although Hawaii we can see in what a real sense Pearl Harbor was our some of them have shut up, temporarily, at least. They have Dunkirk. been proved foolish and wrongheaded, if nothing worse. Let's Temporarily it crippled our fighting power. But, remember their record when they try to influence us about mentally, spiritually and physically, it made a man of us-a the peace as they tried to influence us about the war. tough, aggressive and enduring fighting man. They are already at it. To point to the News again, as an The test of character of a man or a nation is not how he example: A year ago today while the bombs rained on Pearl struts and gloats over an easy initial success. It is how he Harbor the News ran an editorial headed "Why Should We pulls himself up off the floor and slugs his way toward victory. Believe Him?" ("Him" being President Roosevelt, who had We are lucky in our allies. Britain did it. Russia did it. been warning us of war and trying to prepare us for it.) We have done it. Yesterday the News had an editorial headed "The Face of the Future," which is a warning that all of our allies are Our victories thus far are the preliminary victories going back to the old dog-eat-dog world of the past and we'd which give us the initiative. But that prerequisite to com- better not try to plan for a better world. plete victory we have seized. Now we are on our way. Now We believe the peoples who have come through so mag- as never before is there unity among ourselves here at home nificently in this last year are going to make a better world and among all the nations marching with us. and that the conviction that they can will lend strength to their blows in the year ahead. Since Last December 7 Could we have achieved this unity and have traveled so Manpower far along the road to complete victory and a world free of Hitlerism if we had heeded the counsels of despair and de- To the President's executive order putting an end to featism that came in such volume before last December 7 disruptive recruiting by the armed forces and placing the from phoney experts-Lindbergh, for example-and cynical nation's manpower resources, civilian and military, under con- and reactionary newspapers-the Daily News, for instance? trol of a single agency headed by a civilian, we say-Good! Listen to what these isolationists were telling us in the We still think the President should go all the way, how- fateful days before the Japs struck: ever, and place all the nation's resources, including man- "Japan does not threaten us. It is physically impossible power, under one forceful civilian director. for Japan to come over here. That's from the Daily News of October 6-two months and a day before the Japs came over. And on November 24, two weeks before Pearl Harbor, about the time the Japs must have been sailing out of their bases, the News ran an eloquent editorial entitled "Come on-Let's Appease Japan." Meanwhile Lindbergh was delivering himself of these "expert opinions" to large audiences-including heiling bundists-and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "It is impossible to build an air strength in the small area of the British Isles that equals German air strength. Suppose we had an air force that we could send to Europe. Where could it operate? The idea that England, with our assistance, can equal Germany's strength in the air by 1942 or 1943 is a complete fallacy. This war was lost by Eng- land and France even before it was declared. It is the kind of thing people used to crowd into audito- riums to hear. What a long way we have traveled. These quotations, are the merest samplings from the output of the croakers. 32 special l'dRather Be Right By Samuel Grafton ISOLATION'S NEW FACES: Mr. Hoffman, of Michigan (the NEW YORK POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942 negrly automatic Congressman, because you can nearly always predict what he is going to say), mutters about how the people of New England may go cold and hungry this winter for the benefit of foreigners, meaning allies. The New York Daily News (the newspaper with the nearly auto- matie editorial page, because you can nearly always predict what se is going to say) chews about how we are stripping Americans to feed the world, suckers. So. Just about the time- the trend toward better war alms succeeds, this other trend, toward rousing the most insular and parochial of American sentiments, may also mature They may run into each other, head on. This is one of isolation's new faces. It does not, at the moment, object to sending American boys abroad, but it is beginning, ten- tatively, to object to sending American food. The Beans Issue I don't know how you care adó up a political position which holds that It La perhaps all right to send an American soldier abroad, but wrong to send an American can of beans. This is one more of those mysterious, dreamy aspects, which isolation wears during war-time. At bottom, every sincere one- time iselationist ought to be pleased If we can win victories with food instead of lives. But the remnants of isolation will not give up the chance to make much of the food issue, to chivvy a little, to stroke a few national nerves the wrong way, to build up that legacy of resentment of which some few men expect to be the heirs. Another of isolation's new aspects is the look of hate it turns upon Wendell Willkie, who has become á new "that man." Oddly, before the war, Isolation used to make much of England's Imperialism. Now, when Mr. Willkie raises exactly the same Issues, isolation is outraged. It denounces him. It doesn't want to hear about doing anything for those colonies, of whose sufferings it once made so much. Convinced at the outset that this war is meaningless, It wants to make good and sure It stays meaningless; Many Privileges It wants the privilege of attacking England for having colonies, and also the privilege of attacking anyone who wants to do any- thing about colonialism. It seeks, in fact, many conflicting priv- ileges, like the privilege of supporting the war and also the political privilege of bemoaning its cost in food and fuel and regulation. In this curious, and, as I- say, dreamy fashion, the remnants of isolation are enabled to say whoopee, hit him again, when we at- tack the enemy, and also to mutter about the darn bureaucrats when government tries to collect the food and fuel and metal with which to hit him again. The Cult of the Meaningless In other words, what is left of isolation has developed a certain cult of meaninglessness. Part of the credo is that government is a monkey or a cretin; that government is the funniest thing you ever saw; that pretty near everything government does is feeble, inept or comie. This is the last big shell left in isolation's battery. It is a dangerous one. For, if government attempts to do anything after the war to make the world more stable, the isolationist argument will not be against the plan, but against the government; if isolation can establish that government is an Idiot It will destroy war alma without having to discuss them. It needs a purposeless, meaning- less world in which to do its business, and thus It enjoys getting the discussion of government down to an Incoherently leering level, like some of the overtones in the current wrangle about official questionnaires. One senses this somewhat nihilistic disbelief in purpose, when the relicts of Isolation mock at the dream of a "quart of milk a day" for the world's people, but, quite often, urge a national lot- tery to solve our Ills. When a lottery makes more sense than a quart of milk, there is revealed a hankering for a formless, Irrelevant sort of world, one that can stagger along, concealing its losses, masking the cost of national existence, even pretending that there is no cost; that life must be a gamble and that á gamble can pay for It. So, the fight for better war alms has to be more than a yammer at the President to make up his mind; It is going to be a com- plicated struggle, on the home front, against all the giggling bat- talions of obscurantism. PAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, The opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not The Star's. Such opinions are presented in The Star's effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star's. 'I'd Rather Be Right' exceptive Public Issues Must Be Discussed file In Light of Advances in Past Two Years By SAMUEL GRAFTON. anything? This is a new country. While & number of flapjaws have at the absolute historic pesk of been telling: us how muddled and ta strength. and It would be just confused ve are, we have quietly as sensible to compare the number become the strongest military power of its civil servants with the number of beans in & sack of coffee, on earth Few have noticed. because most We: have whole new language to learn Do you realize you are mindse teres (tm) high places) are unscientiño minds, and their atten- Living in a country which has solved tion is therefore arrested by except then aluminum shortage Oh, you tiona, by the bizarre, by the amust didn't know that Well) was are Ing. by their ally buts) not by the wallowing in the stuff The man who speaks to you about customary. OEI the big America problems without convey Thus, while many-s Congressman Ing. this sense of American enlarge has been holding some unimportant ment is: not arguing but sentimen- Government questionnaire to his talleing The man who discusses nose, with an expression saying that our public debt, for example. with- nobody knows how sad it is to be out adding that we have grown 20 a mother, we have somehow come years in two years, contributes pre- to outproduce the entire Axis in cisely as much to public enlighten- the field of munitions. By the end ment as if he were drunkenly sing- of next year. we shall outproduce ting "Sweet Adeline" under a lamp the world, and we shall have done post. all this while most of us have been talking about something eise. Big Adventure Ahead. Every relationship throughout the We live in a big new house, but world has been changed by our we still don't know our way around progress in the last two years. St, we don't know where the furni- Precisely because of our enlarged ture is. and our manners are still production and increased weight, deplorably inadequate. the least remark of one of our Every public issue must be dis- diplomats has an explosive empha- cussed in the light of the knowledge ats is did not have before. (Some- that this is an entirely different times I feel that our State Depart- country from the con of two years ment has been caught short, like ago. Is a & question: of whether most of us, by these great changes; we can help the rest of the world is still hasn't lost its hat-in-hand to stability after the war? If you manner in dealing with the seum are still living. mentally, in 1939; of the earth, the lesser Fascist of we cannot do so, because then we Europe.) produced about $100,000,000 of ma- An American promise of assist- chine tools. But if you are living, ance to another country is now mentally, in 1943, we can, because consequential, as it never was thene we shall produce- more than before. American indifference to $2,000,000,000 of machine tools. or proper planning, say by neglecting 20 for to work out & unified United Nations New Test for Lawmskers. approach to such problems M Dar- And now we have & brand-new lan; now becomes 10 times the mis- test for judging commentatota, take it ever was before. because of Congressmen, etc.: Does the gen- the increased force and weight It tleman talk in apporximately the carries with It., same terms, about the same prob- There is almost no plan for the lema, M he did in 19397 world's rehabilitation that we don't Well then, he is a fool: the have the power to carry out, The America of 1939 is so far behind us big adventure ahead will be for each that he might almost M well of us, from President to busboy, to be talking about Plymouth Rock. try to grow as big as his country Every problem, from our ability to has grown. win the war, to our ability to feed the world, to our ability to take care of our own, has been pro- D. C. Is Asked to Keep foundly affected by our success in crowding 20 years of normal Indus- Alley Clear of Glass trial expansion into two years, and that knowledge ought to shine lout The West End Citizens' Associa- of everything that is said on all tion- last night asked that the Dis- these matters, or else! the speaker trict government take steps to keep the alley between Pennsylvania ave- ought to sprinkle some lavender, nue and H street and Seventeenth on himself. like a porper antique, and Eighteenth streets N.W. cleared and put himself away in a drawer. of broken glass, The motion WM To capture this sense of the mo- made by Otto Zause and was passed ment becomes the highest duty of unantmously the average man. Mr, W. F. Wasson pointed out that He is not helped In this duty by: la view of the rubber shortage every- the publicist who: jumps up and thing possible should be done to help conserve rubber and that this down in a temper tentrum, going particular alley was dangerous in because, say, we have more civil servants: than (we had that'respect.) William F. Brown, treasurer of the during the last war. What does association, reported & balance of that comparison, haves to do with 638.52 in the treasury, Today And Tomorrow By Walter'Lippmann The Great Adventure Only If we allow the world to sink into a morass of misery will America be faced with the dilem- MR HOOVER tells. us that at end is to prime the pump which ma of granting asylum or of THE FEAR then is groundless least 500 million people will be will, so to speak, cause the desert condemning human beings to in- that the promotion of prosperity short of food and will have to be to bloom-to make the initial in- calculable suffering. If, on the in the outer: world will diminish feds when the war ends and we vastments in the form of materi- our own.¹ It: will enhance It-If other hand, we use the power may well believe als, and technical knowledge and which victory) will give us to only we do not suffer the catas- him. For in this promotion, which will start the make the world safe for the trophe of a reaction like that of field he has been undeveloped regionsA of the humble and open for the enter the Harding Administration for a quarter of a world a: great development prising, we can without uncharity which saddles us with a postwar century the fore In the primitive places. this maintain the immigration laws, Administration composed of men who doù not- understand the dy moste authority, means; after political security is and we shall find that a strong and) today established, communications and tendency to emigration will in namics of the modern socialior derti In 1920 no one understood the leading elder public works and the exploration fact set in of their hidden resources:) In the them and so there was some ex ata tes m a n. to cuse for their disastrous follies whomi Governor sparsely inhabited and poorer true that in the very first Lehman and all countries it means the encour- into which we landed ourselves postwar period, which Mr. Hoover. But since 1920 men have discov- who organize the agement of the simpler industries calls the acute period," we shall which, the natural evolution ered the principle of prosperity LIPPMANN operation- of re have to share our food and cer lief and rehabili- of things; will becomes the foun- This discovery is much the tain other supplies with the war- tation must turn for guidance dation, of the more complex cap- most important advance in hu stricken peoples abroad. But this ital? goods indistries. man knowledge in modern times and for help period need not be long. Mr. It is the discovery that govern Naturally enough there will be Hoover reminds us that after the ment can by the proper use of many- who will think that such THIS PROSPECT is certain to last war: it lasted from Novem public funds create a condition enormous misery cannot be re- lieved. without impoverishing our arouse the fear in many minds ber, 1918, until after the harvest of full employment for all its that in promoting prosperity of 1919 This time it may last people. Heaven help the Ad- own? people. In fact, there is already an anxiety that in our de- abroad we shall impoverish our- through two harvests, but it need ministration which refuses to selves. This fear that one man's not be longer than that-pro- apply this knowledge in the post- sire to relieve this misery we shall send goods abroad that we or one country's gain is another vided we use the world-wide war world. For the war has cannot spare and that we shall man's or another country's loss (supply system built up for war demonstrated conclusively that purposes to lend them or give unemployment is now an unnec- open the gates to an immigra is undoubtedly the greatest ob- that wexcannot assimilate. The stacle to human progress It is them the tools and the materials essary and therefore an intoler- the most primitive of alB our to become self-sustaining again. able evil. The prime lesson of anxiety is honest but if we pro- The human capacity for recup- the war in domestic affairs will ceed wisely and act efficiently social feelings, and the most per- the anxiety will prove to be sistent and obstinate prejudice eration is greater than we think. be that by the proper use of a which we retain from / our! bar- And so is the adaptability of men. small fraction of the funds now groundless In London, for example, I was+ devoted to engines- of destruc- barian ancestors, It is upon this told on the highest authority that tion, the country can become pro- prejudice that civilization has ON&THE ASSUMPTION that foundered again and again. is If priorities for. certain fertilizers ductive beyond anything ever we wins the war and succeed in in this prejudice that all schemes could, be obtained, the British imagined, and on that produc establishing a political and mili- of conquest and exploitation are Isles which for a century have tiveness it can maintain R high tary peace which gives men con- engendered It is this prejudice depended on imported food, and rising level of prosperity fidence. that theres will not be which causes almost all mens to could within a year. grow 90 per another great was for:) long think that the Golden- Rule is a cent of the necessary food supply IN THE freedom\ from want time- to conte, there to no reason counsel of perfection which can- We have, however, a. greater men, find freedom from' fear. tor think that there will be any not be followed in the world of end to achieve than to save men And when they cease to fear) of peoples to actual affairs from dying of hunger and our they begin to reálize their pow- come into the United States: On Yet the belief that our neigh- selves from having to live in ers and to believe, as men should the contrary the general move- bor's gain is our loss Is quite con- world scourged by pestilence, when they are) worth their salt, mentvot peoples should be the trary to the facts of life in the and of being faced thereafter; that they are only at the begin- others way-provided we have modern world. New York and as Mr. Hoover says, with massès ning and that they are not at the the prudence to make the initial Chicago and Detroit are richer; of "physical degenerates and por end of the great human adven- Investments which can open uo not poorer, if the people of the tential gangsters. Our greater ture opportunity in the outer world. rest of the country are prosper- Many of the Americans who ous, and the United States will be are now moving out into all parts richer, not poorer, if the rest of of the world will find a satisfying the world prospers. To doubt life's work in the development of this basic truth of human society the vast undeveloped regions of is to believe at bottom in the the globe. They will open up philosophy of the robber barons new frontiers as their forefathers and the Nazis-namely that a few did, Many of those who have can be rich by exploiting others. found asylum here since Europe It is to deny the elementary basis became a prison will go back to of our economic life, which is their homes, or to the new lands that where there is a seller there which will be calling for enter- must be a buyer, and that there prising men with special knowl- can be no lasting profit in the ex- -dop change unless the exchange is profitable to both CONTINUED Report On Midwest Part VII Conclusions Hówever isolationist they once may have been, no one need worry, about the Mid- westerners' support of the war. They have been supporting it, they will continue to support it, because they are patriotic. (That isn't the only reason, but it will suffice.) The next question is, "What do they ex- pect get out of the war?" And I think to that most Midwesterners-and most Amer- icans everywhere-would say, "A chance to live in peace Now that is a simple concept which em- braces many Simple things: a job, a decent home the right. to worship as one pleases, protection from aggressors The Four Free- doms If you please The Four Freedoms, simple in concept, nevertheless are-tremendously difficult of ao- complishment. For in this world, which daily becomes a closer and more integrated unit, no man can be free-really and permanently free-until all are freenThe last war, and the fact that today we are fighting another, is the best proof. Wallace's glass of milk for every child the world over is simple in concept, but to un- derstand it you first must understand the fact that there is a relationship between the standard of living of the Chinese coolie, or the Bulgar peasant, or the Japanese fisher- man, and J Homer Snively of Yellow Springs, O. It is on this principle that the understand. ing of the Midwesterner-and perhaps most Americans-breaks down. And because he does not understand, be is suspicious-of Wallace, of Willkie, of statesmen in general, of all the great diplomatic pressures which must bei brought to play to achieve and to guarantee the simple. things for the in- dividual I don't think it is too late to spread that understanding. Idon't think it is too late for labor unions and farmers' unions to begin teaching world unity as they so often suc- cessfully. have taught local unity. I don't think it is too late for newspapers, regardless of party, to teach that the things we cherish don't depend, as we once thought, on the state of the Nation, but on the state of the world. It isn't too late for anyone and every- one to talk and think in terms of peoples rather than of boundaries. Above all, I don't think it is too late for one nation, somewhere, to make the dra- matie gesture that would prove to Amer- icans, in the Midwest and elsewbere, that this war can be different from other wars. I have said that the people of the Mid- west are not much interested in India. Still, I wonder what they would say if tomorrow a London dispatch said that India had been guaranteed her freedom. I think I can guess: This im't just another war, after all' The leaders of America-in Gov- ernment and out-have been giv- ing much serious thought to the concrete problems of the peace. PM has been interviewing many of them who have answered frankly many of the explosive questions that will face the world before a peace can be written. PM will begin publication of their answers shortly. July 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 261 THE GREAT SIMPLICITY OF JEFFERSON By EDYTHE H. BROWNE "T HE greatest truths are the simplest-and so of the morning in his study, a silent figure in black are the greatest men." coat in his famous "whirligig" or swivel chair, of If statues could become animate how which he was the inventor. Here he read; entered Thomas Jefferson would have turned his stony head such commonplaces in his diary as "the first shad has in dismay, how quickly would the honored hand that appeared on the market, we are out of myrtle penned America's first liberty bond have been raised candles," on the same page with important affairs of in protestation, how tightly would the jaws have state; wrote letters to English lords, French counts, locked in fixed reserve, when his admiring country- and German barons, all with non-essential postscripts men celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of as to the effects of a cold in the head, the particular his death on July 4, 1926. For Jefferson was a plain kind of rainbow that arches over Monticello. The man. He could purchase Louisiana with one hand ordinary bearings of daily life were romance to Jeffer- and a bag of pansy seed for his garden at Monticello son's Saxon soul. Perhaps it was during an interval of with the other. In private life he was the bland musing between letter-writing that he sketched the Southern gentleman in soft shoes, making his own plain stone obelisk that was to mark his grave, and fire at dawn, chatting with his adoring slaves, hum- perhaps, too, he confided his wish for unostentatious ming a snatch of darky lullaby as he climbed the stairs burial to an odd scrap of paper on which he wrote: to bed. In public life as governor, minister to France, "Choose for a burial place some unfrequented vale in secretary, vice-president, and finally president, Jefferson the park, where there is no sound to break the still- was the modest diplomat to whom titles of "His Ex- ness but a brook." cellency" and "Honorable" were unwelcome, and Later in the morning we see Jefferson meeting his whose official chamber was accessible to casual callers. world of plebian folk. Usually a silent man, he would Jefferson would have frowned on the noisy tribute perch on an anchor at the end of a wharf and joke of July 4, because in life he sought no tribute but his with shipwrights. In his whitening seventies- he would own conscience. The one hundred and fiftieth anniver- sit day after day on a camp-stool in the midst of má saty of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, sonry, suggesting plans to the workmen who were rea Jefferson's pet brain child, gave but a sharper retort ing his dream of higher education in enduring stone- to the firecrackers. So this double celebration would the University of Virginia. Thirty slaves ministered have nettled Mr. Jefferson. In deference, therefore, to the Jefferson household, yet they were not of Jeffer- to his wish were he alive today, we shall not toast him son's own purchase but "black chattels" inherited from for historic achievement; we shall rather present him his father. The master was a benign king among as the plain man, the man of simplicities, profiled them, patting the head of a pickaninny, teaching the against private life and public life. men carpentry, bandaging a hurt finger. Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph were the in- After lunch he mounted his horse, Wildair, not with fluencing parentheses in the boyhood of their son a flourish of slave-curtsying and a donning of glossy Thomas. From his father, a Goliath of the Virginia boots and princely spurs, but quietly, with worn over- backwoods, he inherited a stubbornly strong body alls for toggery and a passing negro lad for servant. which he was taught to care for by simple meals of Wildair looked the statelier of the two. After leis- boiled beef and lamb, simple recreations of gardening urely cavaliering along the banks of the Rivanna and horseback riding, and simple clothing of homespun. River Jefferson would drop the reins for the hoe! Sun- Although Thomas was her first son, Mrs. Jefferson set found him working in his garden. primed him early in the elementary art of waiting on Dinner at Monticello was a festive affair with Jef- himself. When he was a student at William and Mary ferson as shy but genial host to the distinguished College, Williamsburg, his natural simplicity once guests who drank to his health. At table he addressed bolted, and attired in brocaded coat and lacy garters conversation to his next-door neighbor. Southern hos- he attended brilliant soirées on week-end visits to rela- pitality was not wanting in him-his kitchen gave forth tives. When he reported his expenses to his guardian tempting odors of roast beef and mutton, his cellar he punished himself for the extravagant departure by brimmed with cider and rare wines, and sometimes charging the sum against his own share of inheritance. fifty beds were in magic readiness for thosè who wished The mature Jefferson in the privacy of his beloved to stay overnight-but he was rather personally spar- Monticello, spent his day in simple routine. We can ing. Self was a beggar whom he never befriended. see Ursula, one of his favorite slaves, waddling about In the evening in family reunion about the hearth, "Massa Jefferson" as he eats his scant breakfast of Jefferson's candle and Bible were twin comforts. He coffee, bread, and wafer of cold meat. He spent most had a simple concept of religion-belief in God and 262 THE COMMONWEAL July 14, 1926 reverence for Jesus Christ. He retired habitually at English manner with a lengthy speech, but by jotting nine o'clock. down a few noble sentiments couched in household Jefferson's public life, a thick slice of forty years off language, and sending his message by private hand. his eighty-three, was bleached of personal glorification. He was also an economist of time. He could not see He campaigned for democracy and his first act toward the morning hours wither in the hands of the fashion- that end was to uproot the enthroning weeds of rank able clientele that met at the weekly levees to honor that grew about himself as a public figure. Colonial the President. So he abolished these breakfast mati- Virginia was servile. Slaves cringed before their mas- nees. Many a damsel was cheated of the opportunity ters. The lady in crinoline dropped a curtsy and a to parade her newest "Dolly Varden" on the Monti- handkerchief when a dashing Continental passed her cello lawn. Because Jefferson believed that "the rulers gate and would be blushingly honored by his attention. of America are but honored servants," he clipped more Assembly members in lace cuffs greeted one another weeds of caste from around his feet by refusing to with cotillion bows. The newspapers were extrava- have his birthday celebrated. A committee member gantly salutatory. Mrs. Washington's arrival in New asked him: York was heralded by the following grandiloquence "What is the date of your birth, Mr. Jefferson?" from the Gazette: "Arrived in this city Mrs. Wash- Of what concern is that to you?" he replied. ington, the amiable consort of the President of the "We wish to give it fitting celebration." United States. At Elizabeth Point she was met by "For that reason," answered Jefferson, "I decline the President and several other gentlemen of to enlighten you. I shall also be obliged if you distinction. She was conducted over the bay will omit the 'Mr.'." rowed by thirteen eminent pilots." Jefferson called When in January, 1785, Jefferson was elected to this gushing punctilio a "frenzy." succeed Franklin as Minister Plenipotentiary to France The famous "Jefferson" of the British artist, Gil- a friend congratulated him on replacing Franklin. bert Stuart, tallies with our pen portrait. The Chief Jefferson modestly replied: "I go to succeed him, for Executive sits in a suit of black "plain cloth" on the no one could replace him." Gilded France held no edge of the chair rather than assume a stately posture witchery over Jefferson. He admired her art but he against the back. His stock is a bit awry, his hands felt "at home" on stolen visits to French peasants, clasp no keys of power, even the right hand resting As welcome guest to a lilac-covered cottage he would on a writing tablet is devoid of the simple quill. The sit down to a meal of crackers and cheese while the p'unting might be called "A Man in Black," so scrupu- host and the pig-tailed children clacked in ecstatic lously has the artist respected Jefferson's wish that French about him. nothing should distinguish him as President. Jefferson's official papers are characterized by the On inauguration day Jefferson defied convention. same simplicity that molds the man. His masterpiece, The buff-colored chariot with its tinselled horses and the Declaration of Independence, is unvarnished argu- attendants in cloth of scarlet, was to conduct the Hon- ment proceeding from a terse statement of self-evi- orable and Distinguished Mr. Jefferson to the Capitol dent truths, up neat steps of fact, to a platform of at Washington The road along which the procession blunt conclusion. Unity of thought through a lattice was to pass was aflutter with waving handkerchiefs. of varying sentence structure labels this famous docu- But instead of cheering, the crowd suddenly fell back. ment a model of argumentative writing. In the distance came Jefferson, seated nonchalantly on Simplicity is the vital ingredient in nature's mix- Wildair, unaccompanied by servants, his tri-cornered ing of the magic potion-a great man. Thomas Jef- hat a little askew, his riding-coat mud-spattered. He ferson was one of her choice concoctions. dismounted at the gate of the Capitol and hitching the bridle to a picket fence thus unceremoniously pre- The Invalid sented himself at the White House. Old ships are tired sailing into port- For eight years Jefferson sat in a hush in the presi- Dim, white-winged galleons weighted down with wares dential chair. The infant republic was an anaemic From lands away off there. Adventuring baby, born after the blood of Revolutionary patriots In strange sea-ways enshadows them. Who cares was spilled. It needed vigilant nursing and this Jeffer- That they are gale-torn by the sweep of years son gave it, rocking its cradle quietly, and at the same When they have seen gold dawns in Sicily- time shielding it from alien dangers. He was accused In far Japan young, cherry-blossomed dusks of timidity and vacillation probably because his de- Agleam on waves of lapis lazuli? cisions were never explosive but budded gradually from I have on me the weariness of ships quiet interviews or from the seclusion of personal cor- Long journeyed although I have never gone Beyond these four walls where my fingertips respondence. The word-duelling between Hamilton Might love old things of mine about the room. and Jefferson was a clash of personalities-the auda- Yet I am like home-coming ships wind-blown- cious egoist against the discreet altruist. I dream the vagabondage they have known! Jefferson opened Congress, not in the customary VIRGINIA J. FOLEY. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942. quests ow join wit of newspa 'd: Let's Stand Up and Be Counted by why people rs A plan to underwrite every American's freedom from ditions et to want lies on the President's desk. tire cit) articles à And look! Before any of its specific details are known This us cries of protest rise, led by Frederick C. Crawford, president cannot be closed door di of the National Assn. of Manufacturers. and the I > Maybe-it's because there are no specific details yet that Our As the howls-are so prompt and anguished: The beauty of the support 1 British Beveridge plan, the thing about it which knocked for courageo against a loop the men waiting for it with knives out, was that it was MRS. S. full of specific detail-all set forth in shillings and pence. Parent So we hope that when the President does submit this Likes Gra' plan for public discussion it turns out to be a proposal detailed To Post- in dollars and cents-things which all men can translate into Dear F rent and meat on the table. Samuel G There the discussion can cut through vague géneralities the Beverb observation and get down to such questions as: "Do you think $18 a week notice, nan, is too much unemployment insurance? Or too little? How employmen much do you think would be about right then? $15? $8.60? need for In ployment.") None at all? This str) which our Three Years of Study war plann This-plan, drawn up by the National Resources Planning gun, Form Board, is nothing whipped up to quiet a sudden demand. It is er, thatea( the resultiof a study. begun in 1939. If it follows hard on the unemploy phenomen heels of: the Beveridge report it shows only. that two great to be con democracies have been thinking along the same lines, respond- governme discover ing to the desires of their plain people in much the same way. ment and Let the Nazi radio, which has been tearing the air to source tatters over the Beveridge, plan; make the most of that Says F. a These moves in that direction scare the Nazis infinitely a Place Be more than anything we have heretofore done in the field of Dear Ed DO hat psychological and. polítical warfare. They are watching us. a great se The They know that all thes plain people: of the world will be series of "There VI all watching us: Days. tion We are eager for the President to present the American Washing plan and as dramatically and effectively as possible, with coln, ever be was viciol ish himself giving his interpretation on a world-wide hookup bers of C& lm Then we can all stand up and be counted. We shall want Iny their to know what many men think of it. Including- these lines vr liant facté 1 most? The New Chairman papers of 8. Of the G.: O. P. National Committee ed, attack V- He is, of course, Harrison E. Spangler, and he starts his course of le day, Line campaign to eliminate the New Deal in 1944 with the state- slander, who ment that, Those bungling New Dealers haven't awoke to tion, vitus seo the fact that we have a war on our hands. They' ye been too mors,- hab lampoons, gars light busy with regimentation and interference with private enter- free press, prise, Today x Mr: Spangler's élection to his new post has been hailed of malign don." against Pr ne to as a victory for the liberal Willkie wing of the G. O.P. It was. history pr plight But only in the forlorn sense that it meant defeat for Wérner tonly wro ed by W. Schroeder, the Chicago Tribune's isolationist candidate. they were I. am or ¿sume But we can't throw our hat in the air over that victory whose fa 3 room in with -instead of a: minus we get a zero, not a plus founders We've been looking over the long and depressing record ty under 4d him, torian I m worth." of Mr. Spangler's contribution to the political history of our cations po 6 N. Y., times. The most illuminating, and, we're afraid, character- velt will An agent istic contribution was when he made the hopeful prediction hearts of 20,000 for greatest di back in 1936 that the Republicans might name "another dark- world Lini singer horse candidate, like Warren G. Harding, in 1920" to lick FRANCI ovie star- LER, Auth 'inally was Roosevelt: Lincoln." in unhappy There's nothing in the record to reassure us that his ed, "why I dream for 1936 is not also his dream for, 1944. What does se as 'Dese,' Spangler. think about unemployment insurance? Does he The Ch want weekly- benefits of $12:86? Or does he prefer $3.16? Dutch sea- We'd like to know. As aim y and then ne told the 2 Van Loon And while we're on the subject of party politics, it's Of was .nd there encouraging to see Representative Michael J. Kennedy, leader fooli mazing," of Tammany Hall, breaking with old Tammany practices. His Are the "By the latest is to call all Democratic legislators from New York loft he life- "and County into consultation, and take up, among other things, That the question of how the delegation can best support the large pular President' legislative propósals, now. that the Democratic of Vhen majority in the House has been shaved dangerously thin. 97.09 polo Mike has taken a position, and is making New York's 'oro- Congressmen stand for something, and he deserves a bow. Good, to see Tammany worry about something besides how to enlarge the local machine. New York Post FOUNDED IN 1801 BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON Published dally except Sunday by New York Post, Inc. 75 West Street, New Yorky WHitehall 4-9000 Entered M 2d-class matter at Post Office, New York, DOBOTET 8. BACKER President and Publisher TED O. TRACKREY Editor end General Manager PAUL 4. 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The Nazis Know Meat on the Table The fright of the Nazis shows they understand how We're a little jealous of the way the Nazi radio is raving profoundly the Beveridge plan challenges them. against the British because of Britain's new Beveridge. plan The Nazis "solved". the problems of individual- insecurity for social security: by merging the individual with the state. The Beveridge We'd like the Nazis to hate us; too, because we Ameri- plan would solve the problem of individual security, and cans had also begun to promise our people a complete system still leave the individual in control of the state. This is a of social security. deep challenge to Nazism, a blow struck where it hurts. We'd like Nazis to be watching us, in ideological terror, And we begin to see, perhaps, the face of the future. and we'd like the plain people of the world to be watching We think there ought to be an American Beveridge us, too, in a new, flooding tide of hope. plan, and that an authoritative and unbiased American economist like Professor Paul Douglas of the University of Funny thing. Here the world has been talking about war aims for three years. Pretty vague stuff, mostly. Chicago (now a captain of Marines) ought to be put. to work to draw it up. Kindly speeches, not very definite. Then, suddenly, a mild, And will we offer it, when completed, to, Chinese and elderly English economist proposes a system of social se- Siamese, to Italians and Albanians? What about those curity for England, not intended as war aims at all, and the Americans who make those jokes about not wanting to fight thing stands up and begins to walk by itself, and now it is for a quart of milk a day for every Hottentot? striding across the world. It Will Be Talked About Take the First Step We'd say, strike out for justice and the truth, and let We think the Beveridge plan will be talked about in nature and bad jokes take their course. remote huts in China before its career has ended. Each nation will want to solve its internal problems in We know it is being talked about on the Nazi radio, its own way. Each has different standards. Each has a which raves: that England is lying, that it has no intention lot of history to live through. of providing unlimited unemployment insurance, and ma- But to start it, first in England, then here, to show the ternity care, and medical insurance: For all. For every- world it is spreading, that we can stand on our two feet, body, workman, youth, doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief- that we can help smaller Beveridge plans along in smaller and housewife, too. places-that makes a program of war aims. It. is the more And the job that the House of Commons asked Sir exciting precisely because it is not too pat and too nicely William Beveridge to do for England, for England alone, finished off, because it deals in the realities of meat on the mind you, becomes the best statement of war aims we've table, and is not afraid to take the first step because the road had, a statement with enough muscle and vitamins to it to ahead may be long and full of turns. be able to live even away from the lecture platform. Why? Because, perhaps, Sir William's plan meets the needs of this age, as Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points met the war-aims needs of an earlier age. The Fourteen Points were largely concerned with prob- lems of national sovereignty, problems hot and lively in an age in which imperialism was still pushing out its chest. The Beveridge plan talks to the individual about his individual problems of want and fear and freedom, and in an era in which mass unemployment and insecurity have gripped the minds of men. end da conscion which is .ngely perverted "spiritual uman history 1100 Restraints E/D 33 The President has asked Congress to give hon him plenary power to suspend, for the dura- tactà are can tion whatever tariff, immigration and espi- satisf deo, as ODAge laws impede the joint prosecution of This oria the war by the United Nations. Testimony tingula 1.00 that many of these degislative restrictions worket 1.33 1.00 have proved. an- embarrassment to the joint the 84 efforts has been given bys the most distin- hearter 1.55 2.73 guished and trustworthy; of our war execu- conduct 1.30 tives: But Congress has been coy, and perhaps the co stief deservedly With: on the recent elec- patient use tions IL would delegate the authority requested the cod à or withwrestrictions which) retain. the reins. in ocal hospital of the No own one can quarrel with this objective. The hands. firms red. which only-point at issue concerns the degree of re- striction and its effection the prosecution of ple re In vie aly the war. As was read the election returns tions mf nis they constituted a. popular mandate that our are representatives la Washington concentrate on hope the an the efficient prosecution of the war above any years If other consideration. All subsequent signs have mand n è strengthened our conviction In this particular, makers se and the passage of the teen-age draft law who app 3- without emasculating amendments appeared 1940, plai or y to indicate that Congress, too, shared this un- the tenta et derstanding. We, wish we could be as sure successor de that in its approach to the third war powers that the д- bill it was not playing politics. having According to reports of the latest version psychiati of this measure to be entertained by the Ways run savis no and Means Committee of the House, the man we AVE President is to have the right to suspend cer- Ings, as in- tain annoying tariff regulations, but he is still work to (ble to be hedged about with stingy and annoying more he the dont's respecting immigration. One can easily n & sympathize with the fear that our barriers to a in indiscriminate immigration, & serious threat The lous to our national unity in the last war, will be this nei th a impaired by any ,concession But.a realistic on the this comprehension of the situation should dispel we are the the fear. The President has asked merely that we sho while the war lasts. he be permitted to set vutes aside such barriers to admit Allied nationals name, received na- on official missions, civil or military, free from named gen- head taxes and other limitations of residence. and It Bcult The country has nothing to loss and every- of an El i and thing to gain in complying with this request. . an- War conditions absolutely prohibit the entry paper been on all his into this country of persons other than the ping cer man" few required to promote inter-Allled co-opera- tains at piece tion. And common sense demands that they Teed is go on be freed of the hampering red tape. friend their It is all right that Congress should be feeble rescue anxious to contradict Its reputation of sub- ably jul 1 Duce servience to the Executive by insisting on rea- sonable restraints. But by all means let them pointin acible" such m the be reasonable, not obstructionist. sagshi scismo Kostro mean Whimsy at Its Worst May will If we may say so, it seems to us that Roose- ves veltian whimsy struck a new low for 1942, if :- not for all time, at the President's Tuesday press conference. Esca The President was discussing the question ether Congress would extend the $25,000 bei willing: to coven all Income any This will give some Idea of what is in the minds of the 60-odd Indies and gentlemen. There is much in this program that is desirable, the a great deal of It is so vaguely expressed that it is difficult to know just what is intended. It is amusing to note that much of Hitler's propa- ganda about the have-not nations has been swal- lowed as gospel. In fact, of course, these nations before this war were tree to buy -materials almost anywhere on equal terms with everybody else. Japan had no difficulty In accumulating Chicago Daily Tribune stocks of oil. cotton, scrap steel, and machine tools, She went to war against us after monop- THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER olizing vast natural resources and markets in Manchuria. Germany is still drawing on the FOUNDED JUNE 10, no stocks of rubber, oll, tin. and copper she had no difficulty In obtaining overseas before the war. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER NAT 14, 1903, ACT OF MARCH a. 1879. AT THE POSTOFFICE AT CHICAGO, U.S. UNDER After the last war we lent money to Germany la amounts not likely to be exceeded this time even If an elaborate machinery for International All unselicited articles, manuscripts, letters and pictures lending is created and Germany is again wel- sent to The Tribuse are - at the owner's risk, and TIM Tribure company expressly repudiates MY liability comed as a borrower. (reponsibility for their safe enstody or nim. An underlying assumption in the memorandum appears to be this: Prosperous nations and peo- TUESD DECEMBER & 1942. ples do not start wars. History will not bear out this thesis. It is much nearer the truth to say are the sentinels of the that tree peoples seldom engage in ware of con- liberties of our country, quest. It follows that the most serviceable means Benjamin Rush, of preventing wars is to encourage the spread of republican institutions and especially of the Bill of Rights to peoples who do not now enjoy them- A DURABLE PEACE. In lands where there is no freedom of the press, A memorandum to the President and congress of speech, of assembly. and religion a people can telling them how to go about making an endur- easily be led Into aggression by governing offi- ciais who see their own profit in war. Ing peace is being circulated about the country. The American people," the memorandum says, The declaration bears the title Program for a recognize the need for preservation of Individ- Union of Nations and the Adoption of Those ust rights as the ultimate object to strive Fundamental Economic Principles Which Are for." but adds that such alma can only be at- Necessary to Insure a Just and Lasting Peace." tained If they are based on a. sound and work- The proposal is Indorsed by about 50 men and able economic policy which ties the nations to- women, including a good many In the academic gether and makes possible the Interchange of world, some writers, some clergymen, an actress, vital national resources. That is stating some business men, some lawyers, some govern- the matter upside down. If there is to be closer ment officials, and the usual sprinkling of pro- coôperation among nations the first step. must fessional doers of good. All of the signers are be the liberation of the slave nations-Russia and more or less prominent; the representation from India as well as Germany and Japan. the seaboard states appears to be disproportion. We are frank to say we don't know how that ately high. can be achieved and we got no help from Mr. The memorandum says that legal, geographic, Roosevelt when he announced the four freedoms ethnic, and other questions" will be presented at as the goal of our war policy. It is hard to see the peace conference for decision, but economic how the Bill of Rights can be implanted by force reorganization of the world must be attended to of arms but perhaps It can be done. At any rate at once. In the economic field It is Im- the American people will be more than a little perative that the general principles laid down be reluctant to join a union of nations, some of Implemented now. The nations are to form a them free and some of them enslaved. If we world economic union to which they, will send should ever decide to qualify our Independence delegates, and the world union will have branch It will surely not be to ally ourselves perma- agencies In each country. This machinery is to nently with nations In which the people are not be readied for operation as spon as the war ends. politically free, for such nations cannot be Its general purpose would be to create equi- trusted. table relationships between the nations of the world so that no nation need turn to warfare as FOREIGN LEGIONS. a method of attaining free access to raw ma- terials and goods with which to support Its Secretary Stimson's permission to Otto Haps- population." burg to raise a body of household troops-paid, And so on. The world economic union is to fed, and clothed by the United States army-has lend money to get the Impoverished nations naturally brought protests from spokesmen for the different peoples who threw off Hapsburg started again, Currencies are to be stabilized; and In this connection kind words are uttered tyranny after the last war. about the gold standard. Trade barriers, Includ- Our alliance with Otto may please the other Ing tariffs and quotas, are to be largely elimi- royal fugitives who frequent the White House, nated, but something. unspecified, must be done but It can do nothing but harm to our relations to overcome the competition of extremely low with the people of occupled Europe. A. joint pro- wages prevailing In some countries, An Inter- test against this country entering any relations national central bank is to be established. The with the Austro-Hungarian pretender has been backward peoples are not to be ruled as colonies Issued in New York by Austrian, Crecho-Slovak, nor yet turned over to individual nations under Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Rumanian. and Jugo- a scheme of mandates, but this time are to be Slav spokesmen. governed under the protection and care of the In Chicago the Czecho-Slovak National council International union." has attacked the deal, but Its secretary has stipu- lated that the organization is not opposed to units of freedom* loving nationals of other coun- tries fighting as units of the United States army." 4 This raises another question. Allens resident in this country are subject to the draft, as they should be. If they wish to enjoy freedom in the United States they should fight June Willkie Forces Keep Schroeder From Rule By DORIS FLEESON St. Louis, Dec. 6.-Wendell L. Willkie tonight apparently had won his fight against the selection of Werner Schroeder as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Willkie DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1942 had opposed Schroeder on the ground that the Chicagoan was a former isolationist and his selection would represent a re- trogression for the party. Conferences between Willkie spokesmen party harmonizers and representatives of the Schroeder group are scheduled. Harrison Spangler, national committeeman for Iowa, and Barak T. Mattingly of St. Louis were possible compro- mise selections. Martin Pulls for Unity The sentiment for harmony crys- tallized late this afternoon after spade work by retiring Chairman Joe Martin. Among the national committeemen who met and ar- ranged tonight's harmony meeting was J. Russel Sprague of New York. Schroeder, who had said from the start that he felt party har- mony was imperative, was re- ported sending spokesmen to the meeting with Martin. The defeat of Schroeder repre- sents a triumph for Willkie, who from the start offered no candidate Wendell L Willkie of his own but stood on the ground Blocks choice of Schroeder that Schroeder would not do. Taft Stand Boomerang. cos feel he had run out on the The Willkie camp avoided draw- party by his support of the Roose- ing any issue, but they were aided velt foreign policy. by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, The chairman will not be named prominent pre-war isolationist, who on arrival here announced he until tomorrow afternoon but any would vote for Schroeder. This, in agreement reached tonight will the view of the Willkieites, helped prevail. fasten the isolationist label on the Chicagoan. Wouldn't you like to give - Willkie's victory is the more re- Christmas doll to a little girl who has never had one? Then send It to markable since most G.O.P. politi- Sally Joy Brown. being Saturday, we December 5, 1942 DAILY NEWS new We know that anybody can scrape along on $25,000 a Tel. 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Evolution; body could make and keep, we would all Revolution wind up eventually as slaves to the MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS shrewdest and most acquisitive man The dispatches Associated credited Press is exclusively endited to the Use. for republication of all published to IL or not otherwise credited in this Daper and also news mong us, or maybe to the shrewdest half-dozen men. herein, All rights of republication of special disoatches herein also the are local reserved. news And it may be that the Communists, who are bally- $67,200 GROSS, $25,000 NET 100ing this Roosevelt fiat, are right in saying that a better ociety can be built if the profit incentive is taken com- The $25,000 annual wage limit, which the President pletely away Perhaps the Soviets produced better decreed after Congress had twice refused to enact it, has conditions for the average citizen than the pre-war United aroused considerable discussion. States, but most unbiased reports are otherwise: Roosevelt Vs. What it comes to is this That The spreading of the wealth, however, should be ac-1 nobody in the United States, at least complished gradually we believe, not by a confiscatory American Way for the duration of the war, can keep wrench. The former is evolution, the latter revolution. more than $25,000 of what he earns And the former is what has been going on up to now. in any one year. Income taxation will cut him to $25,000 Under the new tax laws, a single man making $3,000 net if he earns $67,200; above $67,200, the plan is, in effect, a year will lose $472 of it to the Government, or about 15% to tax him 100%. A $10,000 single man will pay $2,390, or almost 24%. On Thus, by Executive fiat, the President stabs at the $20,000-$6,816, or 34%. On $50,000-$25,811, or over philosophy which has underlain the American system. That 50%. Make $1,000,000 in a year, and, if single, you pay philosophy has been that if people are given leeway to make $854,616 to the Federal Government, or if married, $854,000. money they will compete ardently with one another. Since Inheritance and gift taxes also prevent accumulations most people who make money for themselves also bring of enormous untouchable and high-powered wealth And benefits to many other people-cheaper cars, for example, these limits on wealth accumulation should be retained, for or better and cheaper food, clothing, houses, train service, the welfare of us all. etc., etc.-the theory has been that all this competition is for the good of society as a whole. These arguments pro and con "conspicuous waste" and the profit motive, however, are beside the main point in the If the President's fiat stands, a lot of things will have argument over the President's $25,000 wage limit fiat. to be given up by a lot of people. The main point is the fact that the limit Congress was clapped into effect by that fiat. Night clubs will fade; so will private golf clubs. So Bypassed Theoretically, this is a government con- "The Theory of will medium and high priced sisting of three branches: the Executive, cars, diamond necklaces, beach Legislative and Judicial The Legislative branch-Congress Conspicuous Waste" and mountain vacation resorts, -is supposed to make the laws; the Executive-the Presi> most domestic servants, me- dent-to carry them out; the Judicial-the courts-to in- dium and high priced houses. Grand opera and the legiti- terpret them. mate theatre. Big privately endowed prep schools like Congress twice refused to make a law limiting net Groton, St. Paul's and Lawrenceville, colleges like Yale, wages per year to $25,000 for the duration of the war. Harvard and Princeton, will tend to disappear. Great char- The President thereupon took one of the judges off the itable and research organizations such as the Rockefeller Supreme Court, gave him a Government job combating Foundation will be stationary or go backwards. inflation, and told him to make the $25,000 limit law re- All these things have come into being because Ameri- gardless of Congress. cans have been free to compete with one another, and be- There is the real danger in this business. It is another cause when a man makes a lot of money his natural impulse step toward dictatorship in this country. is to advertise his success to the world by hanging diamonds on his wife, buying a big country place, endowing a founda- tion, or in some other way substantiating what Thorstein Veblen called "the theory of conspicuous waste." It so happens that Mr. Hoover has just been telling in Collier's how big his task actually was in the years follow- ing World War No. 1, and how much bigger the same task is likely to be after World War No. 2. What Hoover In the first 12 months after the Accomplished November, 1918, armistice, about 27,000,000 tons of food were shipped into the European area. More than 16,000,000 tons of it came from the United States. The money value of our food contribution was $3,300,000,000. About $2,400,000,000 SUNDAY NEWS worth of this was furnished on credit (we eventually col- unday, November 29, 1942 Tel. MU rray Hill 2-1234 lected only about 6% of the money due), about $325,000,000 worth by charitable organizations, and about $575,000,000 Published away Bunday by Nom Syndicute Co. Inc., at 120 E. 42d St., Borough of Manhattan, New York, Y. Mail subscription rates: U. S. $2.50 Canada, $5. 00 per year. For the Sunday and Date News, U. B., worth was paid for in goods, gold and services. 0.50 Der year:Candda, $20.00 per year. President, J. M. Patterson; treasurer. B. EL McCormick: second vice The work went on for more than two years. It had two resident and general manager. Rey c. Hellins: secretary. F. M Flyer, all of 220 E. 42d Bt., New York, I. main objects: (1) to prevent actual starvation by rushing MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS food to hunger and famine areas; and (2) to help the war- The Associated Press. is. exclusively entitieu to the use. too republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news weakened countries get back to producing for themselves as published herein- All rights of republication of soncial dispatches herein also are reserved. soon as possible, rather than put. them on a permanent breadline supplied mainly by the United States, Canada and FEEDING THE POSTWAR WORLD the Argentine. Altogether, the Hoover organization kept 28 nations- President Roosevelt a few days ago appointed Gov. about 375,000,000 people-from sinking into a famine-ridden, Herbert H. Lehman of New York Director of Foreign Re- pestilence-rotted chaos that might have compared favorably ief and Rehabilitation. with the times following the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), This jawbreaking title (and you when one-third of Europe's entire population is believed to can search us why some of them have died off. can't be simpler) means Mr. Lehman This time, what with large parts of Russia devastated has quite a spell of work ahead of and a good deal of China scorched by war, Mr. Hoover him. During the war, he will direct expects the relief job to involve 500,000,000 people, as the sending of food relief and other against the 375,000,000 after World War No. 1. As we've material help to poverty-stricken or remarked before, World War No. 2 in every way is a bigger, Axis-leeched territories taken by our better and therefore more glorious conflict than No. 1. forces, such as Morocco and Algeria. After the war, he will direct Amer- The saving of Europe is one of the postwar jobs to ican relief of various kinds to all which Americans will in all likelihood dedicate themselves. countries that need it. Mr. Lehman is a conscientious, We did it before, willingly and in a mood of high self-sacri- hard working citizen who has made fice. This time, our leaders apparently an able Governor of New York. He Better Help are resolved that we shall do it whether Herbert H. Lehman can be counted on to do his best; and The Farmers most of us want to or not, and even if it his best, within the limitations of his experience, should be may result only in fattening Europe up good. for another war in another 15 or 20 years. One would have expected Ex-President Herbert Hoo- So it looks to us as if one of the more urgent jobs facing ver to be given this job, had it not been for politics. Hoover the Government at this time is the job of bringing some kind did the same work in the previous war era as Lehman is to of order out of the chaos that now bedevils our farmers. do in this one, and did it in masterly style. But an Admin- Draft boards yank farmers and their hired help into istration which has sidetracked an Al Williams and snooted military service regardless of what happens to the farm, in a Lindbergh for political reasons can hardly be expected to numerous cases. High war plant wages are pulling men off give a Republican, no matter how able, a job involving the the farm as if by magnetic power. Priorities are cutting expenditure of billions of dollars. down farm machine production. The OPA price ceilings, according to some accounts, often counteract the high farm prices supposedly guaranteed by the parity provisions. We can't figure that last one out; but anyway, farm production is going down. If the American people themselves are short on food after the war, we do not see how the Administration can either kid them or force them into feeding any large part of the rest of the world. 2 PM'S DAILY PICTURE MAGAZIN DECEMBER 11, 1942 Pearl Buck Says Fight for Freedom Has Died Amerrage Author Tells Fellow Nobel Winners That "Victory save a partial thing, a secondary thing. The Over Axis Does Not Mean Victory Over Fascism' civilization of Europe has never been in tegrated, ordered civilization. Because of Pearl S. Buck, speaking before a group there have been a man great enough at that this Europe has been the breeding place of of her fellow Nobel Prize winners, last night significant moment to have declared that wars, and will continue to be. put into words her profoundly pessimistic this war was a war for the freedom of all conclusion that the war between the United peoples, we would not have hafl to face Roots in Asia Nations and the Axis has ceased to be a now, as we do face, another war of which fight for freedom. this one is only the beginning. "The roots of human civilization are in In an address which unquestionably will "Ong can only hope at most, now, that Asia, not in Europe. It is in Asia that people be quoted, debated, denounced, and evoked there will be a breathing space between have learned the ways of living together for months-and perhaps years-to come, the this war and the next, One cannot guaran- that bring peace and not continual war. It author of The Good Earth affirmed her còn- tee that there will be that space. is in Asia that people believe in and prac- tice the laws of individual and collective viction that "the victory over the Axis does No Man Great Enough not mean the victory over Fascism." A sec- freedom upon which alone peace can be "For we had no man great enough to de- built. ond war must be fought, she said, for free- dom. clarè at the necessary moment the true "The only war-like people there are the méaning of this war. Let us reckon with this Japanese whose civilization, like that of Eu Mrs. Buck spoke at the Nobel Anniver- fact-our leaders are men of local minds. rope, is a derivative secondary thing. sary Dinner given at the Waldorf-Astoria They have not been able to think in terms by the Common Council for American "Let us face this moment in this year, of the world. therefore, and not be deceived in the na- Unity. In her audience were such distin- "And I nican by the world not merely the ture of the struggle that lies chead. guished winners of Nobel awards as Sii geographical world in military terms, so that Norman Angell, Sigrid Undset, Arthur H. Pearl Buck "I am not afraid to speak to you boldly an army is sent here or sent there. I mean The victory over the Axis does not mean Compton, Harold C. Urey, and Otto Lbewi. the world of human beings. This war has the victory over Fascism and you and I must Thomas Mann, unable to be present, sent a been limited in its true aims. It has become intact at the end of this war. One thing is know this, wo must acknowledge it, we must manuscript which was read by his daughter, a military struggle. It has ceased to be n Eríka: true-the promise of freedom cannot be given rockon with ft. fight for freedom. "We know now," Mrs. Buck said, "what to one colonial people without giving it to "Only by acknowledging it, and reckon- "The times do not always produce the we could not know a year ago, that this war all and therefore it may be argued, pru- ing with it, can we do our part to save civ man. Whenethe-peoples, of Ásía and of dently, that it is easier to make no promise is not only between the United Nations and ilization-not only the civilization of Europe, Africa, yes, and when many among our own the Axis. of freedom. It is easier to cease talking about of our own country, but human civilization, peoples here and in South America, looked "We know that the war between the freedom at all. It is easier to say that we for all humanity.' and listened and heard no great voice, at had better win the war before we discuss United Nations and the Axis if only the be- that moment the shadow of the long war the postwar world. It is less-disturbing to ginning of the real war, which remains the ahead darkened and fell upon us. The poo- our allios, both actual and potential, three Sigrid Undset Cites Crimes war between the principles; of Democracy ples of Asia are further from us today than of whom are empires, with vast and rich and the principles of Fascism. We know, they ever have been. holdings in the East and Africa. Against Spiritual Values in this, the war has no geographical boun- They are realizing soberly that they must daries. "So in this fashion, the danger is that this Sigrid Undset, Norwegian Nobel Prize find their salvation in themsolves, and not "We have said and it may be true that war will conso to be a war for freedom and winner and author of Kristin Lavransdatter, with Allies - tn certain grianded we are fighting a war to save civilization. boom month Is was against the Axis. All Inst- night neged that the trimes degree, for a moment, for a while, but they But what we must foresce is that unless of Asia now knows and acknowledges, and by the Germans against spiritual values be carinot trust us. there is a miracle we will have to fight An- so must we if we are honest that the prin- added to the overwhelming horror of their They see that while this first stage of ciples of human equality and humán free- physical crimes. the other war to save froedom. the war must be won against the Axis, there "When did the character of this war dom may have nothing to dd with our vic- The horrors of reprisals in Yugoslayia will be another war, following hard upon tory in this war. and Czochoslovakia," Mrs. Undset said, change? I think we all entered into the this one, a greater war, the real war for "Certainly the peoples of Asia are now the tortures of civilians in all of the occu- war knowing that however it might have freedom, in which none yet secs clearly been avoided, it had to be fought with all coming to believe that for them our victory pied countries, the massacres of the Jows ofther friend or foe, the strength of body and will, since it was "It is not now so cortain what this first will have nothing to do with freedom and in Europe, are apt to give us an impression inconceivable that our enemies should will equality. that the outrages committed against spirit- war between the princíples; of Democracy ples of Asia are further from us today than of whom are cimpires, with vast and nen and the principles of Fascism. We know, Against Spiritual values they ever have been. holdings in the East and Africa. in this, the war has no geographical boun- They are realizing soberly that they must "So in this fashion, the danger is that this Sigrid Undset, Norwegian Nobel Prize daries. find their salvation in themselves, and not war will cease to be a war for freedom and winner and author of Kristin Lavransdatter, "We have said and it may, be true that with us: Allies we are, to a certain guarded become meroly à was against the Axis. All last- night urged that the crimes committed we are fighting a war to save civilization. degree, for a moment, for a while, but they of Asia now knows and acknowledges, and by the Germans against spiritual values be But what we must foresce is that unléss carinot trust us. so must we If we are honest that the prin- added to the overwhelming horror of their there is a miracle we will have to fight An- They see that while this first stage of ciples of human equality and human free- physical crimes. other war to save freedom. the war must be won against the Axis, there dom may have nothing to do with our vic- The horrors of reprisals in Yugoslavia "When did the character of this war will be another war, following hard upon tory in this war. and Czochoslovakia," Mrs. Undset said, change? I think we all entered into, the this one, a greater war, the real war for "the tortures of civilians in all of the occu- war knowing that however it might have "Cortainly the peoples of Asia are now freedom, in which none yet sees clearly been avoided, it had to be fought with all coming to believe that for them our victory pied countries, the massacres of the Jews either friend or foe. in Europe, are apt to give us an impression the strength of body and will, since it was "It is not now so certain what this first will have nothing to do with freedom and that the outrages committed against spirit- equality. inconceivable that our enemies should pre- wat will gain us. Perhaps it will not even ual values, against the integrity of science vail. "And who can give them any other hopo? save civilization for us. For it is in wars One hears everywhere of plans for a re- and the freedom of men's creative spirit, that civilizations are lost, if they go on too were after all minor crimes. 'Fate Coming Closer' constructed Europe, of plans for feeding Eu- long. Good ends are too often lost in the "The river of blood of millions, crying "It is even möre inconceivable today that rope's hungry millions, of health measures meáns. to high heaven for vengeance, has washed our enemies, Germany and Japan, should for Europe's sick and wounded. But who win. But the strange thing is that the shad- Military Gain Not Enough away the ashes of the book-burnings. The hears anywhere of feeding India's hungry thought of famine and postilence stalking ow of war docs not grow less as theso che- The oppressed people of France, too, are millions, hungry not only in the brief years tire büs Greece makes us almost forgot that Acrop- mies grow weaker. not ás close to us as they were. Military vic- of this war; but always hungry? olis now flies the Swastika. To sal "The heavy foreboding, which is upon tory in Africa has not won us a victory among "Eighty per cent of India's people do not m/b to "And, yet, it was exactly these crimes the heart and mind of every thinking man thoso in France who still love liberty. know and never have known what it is to against spiritual values, it was exactly the for and woman, is not lifted as it. should be "Our own colored people are not closer be fed adequately. Yet there are no plans assassination of these convictions in the now, at the end of this incredible year. Why to us at the end of this year than they were made for feeding them. Medical care is even German people, that had to be committed can we not take more comfort in today's at the beginning. Military victory is not more inadequate, in Asia alwhys has been, 8 before the full tido of fiendish cruclty and news? It is comforting, yes. It is something enough to lift their hearts. but who plans for that? of incredible obsecenities could be let loose to be grateful for that our military machine "Now it is quite true that this war is more "There are no plans, there never were wherever the German military boots tram- is better than the enemies' machine. Why, than one war. There is a good deal of rea- any plans. A medical watchguard is kept ple. then, are we not comforted? son on the side of those who say let us at the gates of the East in Egypt in the Mid- "It is exactly for the vindication of these "It is because we see a certain Fate com- fight one war at a time. For example, obvi- east and at the western ports, lest the dread principles of the freedom of mind and the ing closer to us, and these victories do not ously in a purely military sense it is to our diseases of Asia creep into our countries, brotherhood in veneration for truth and hold back its march. Somewhere in this year benefit if, in need of all possible allios, we into the beloved Europe, but who cared da humanity and plain common senso and the the step might have been taken which could can koep political France with us, even how many of the peoples of the East suf- creative possibilities of men and women we, have averted this Fate. Until that moment though the earth of France has been scized fored and died? the Allied Nations, fight, when we fight to this war was being fought as h war for by the enemy. Obviously then the sensible "The war hás been limited still further. tear the prey out of the Nazi paw and to freedom. thing is to sacrifice the faraway peoples of It is now not even a war to save civilization. conquer an opportunity to rebuild our old "You remember how heartily all our al- France's cinpiro, and say nothing at this time It is only a war to save European civiliza- world better still and exalt the old sacred lies, in Asia as well as in Europe, entered about giving the hope of freedom to colonial tion. For we of the West never seem ablo values even higher than before into the war for freedom. No war that ever peoples. Will political France fight so well to realize that In the East there are civiliza- has been waged was entered into with more on pur side, when the moment comes, If she tions far older and as great if not greater devotion to freedom than was this war. knows that there would be no empire at than Europe's civilization. Shall those not Remember Bataan Millions of people, dark and light, rallied the brid of this war? Would imperial Hol- be saved? Invest to the cause of Democracy. land be so enthusiastic for the allied cause "It was out of the Mideast that Europe's "I am not exaggerating when I say that if her empire were no longer to exist if civilization was once reborn. It will be out A Dime Out of there was a moment, almost a day, nearly the United Nations won? of the Far East, out of India and out of Every Dollar in six months ago now, when the great peo- "There are many persons who argue that China, that our own civilization will be re- ples of Asía were very close to the anti- England hersolf would be less entliusiastic bom. U.S. War Bonds Axis peoples of Europe and America. Could if her emplre were not to be restored to her "When we talk of saving only Europe we Entered as Second Class Matter, Post Office, N.Y., N. Senate Votes to Investigate Federal Forms and Quizzes Baffling Symbols on Questionnaire Just Printer's Notes, Smith Reveals TIMES HERALD By LAURENCE BELL 12/4/42 p.2 New Deal masterminds who have turned the war effort into a supercolossal quiz program, with already harassed businessmen being forced to supply the-answers, yesterday were slated for a little grilling themselves. do with the questionnaire Itself- These boys. who toll mostly at they are merely the printer's no- 1-1071-PLOF-5- OPA and WPB but also buzz busily tations." declared the budget boss, in other bureaucratic vineyards, who proceeded to translate M fol- will have to answer "how come?" NOBU-COS-WP lows: to the joint "1-Printer's designation for committee on OPA. Is Explained the Reduction "1071-Serial number of Job per- Budget Director Harold D. Emith of Nen-Essen- formed for OPA. today came to the defense of 7-1071- tial Federal Ex- "PLOPS-A misprint of P. 1 of PLOF-S-NOBU-COS-WP. penditures. The 5' meaning this is the first of This jumble, which impeared on Senate ap- five pages. one of the exhibits, fiattened the proved unani- 'NOBU-No backup. A printing Byrd Committee Tuesday when the mously & Teso- instruction. questionnaire@probe started. It is lution by Sena- "COS-Collating and stapling. only an innocent combination of tor Arthur Van- Likewise printing instruction. printer's symbols, according to Mr. denberg (R.), "WP-Wrap. A printing instruc- Smith. of Michigan, tion." "The symbols had nothing what- a ever to do with those who were asked probe of the "No Esoleric Code" to answer the questionnaire, nor Government In effect, said Smith, the fright- with the tssuing agency. They are question naire Benater ened industrialists can come out merely the printer's notations for and paper form Vandenberg of their hideaways and tend to his own convenience,". he said. situation. their own affairs, The symbols are Mr. Smith interpreted the hiero- Explains "Mystery" just guides for the printers and glyphics as follows: are by no means an esoteric code 1-Printer's designation for OPA. Meanwhile, In & move to take New Dealers use to keep unbellev- 1071-Serial number of job per- some of the heat off the New Deal ers from knowing what they are formed for OPA. quiz kids Budget Director Harold up to, PLOP-5-Misprint of PL OF - D. Smith came up yesterday with Nevertheless, the economy com meaning that this is the first page mittee continued with the hear- of five pages. the key to the mystery of what NOBU-No Backup, Printing in- 1071 PLOP-5-NOBU-COSWP" ings which already have brought struction. means. out that composing lengthy and COS Collating and stapling. When this perplexing array of puzzling questionnaires - one of Printing instruction. figures and letters appeared as which was & full four feet long WP-Wrap Printing instruction. the title of an OPA questionnaire, -has become a major Government Mr. Smith described* the furore unenlightened persons figured It enterprise. One witness averred caused by the quéstignnaire with either was shorthand or -double- Wednesday that small, grocers in the overweighted -destignation as talk. An outraged toothpaste ty- California are spending more time "another example of the tendency coon waved the form at the econo- filling out OPA questionnaires to leap at conclusions when Govern- my committee on Tuesday, de than they are putting to selling sagencies are under attack," manding to know what the sym- their rapidly dwindling stocks of boin meant, Senator Kenneth D. merchandise. STAR 12/3/42 McKellar (D.) of Tennessee said The witness, Fred A. Baughan, not only that be didn't know, but general manager of the California Front page that "It would take a hundred Retail Food Dealers Association, experts to figure it out." asserted that "tons and tons and Smith pooh-poohed such talk, tons" of these forms are now piled saying that the whole furore over up in garages, never indexed and 1-1071-PLOF-5-NOBU-COS-WP was apparently forgotten by the bu- just "another example of the ten- reaucrats who devised them. dency to leap at conclusions when Government agencies are under 162 Periodical Reports attack. Another witness, George B. Ros- "The symbols have nothing to coe, of the National Association of Manufacturers, testified that the Eastman Kodak Company. alone had filed 262 periodical reports related directly to the war effort and 147 "special forms" during the three-month period ending in June. The man-hours involved In an awering the questions contained in this mass of paper, Roscoe de- clared, total enough to have built three Flying Portresses. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BUREAU OF THE BUDGET WASHINGTON, D. C. December 4, 1942 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT: the I would like especially to call your attention to the attached clippings. I think you will enjoy the story. This is fast stuff and had to be done on the spot. It is a good counterirritant, however, and represents one way of get- ting space for answers to some of the criticism which you mentioned today. HDS H. D. S. A-8 THE EVENING STAR, WASH The Thening Star military output and are urging that in the not-too-distant past. But It every effort be made to increase 11. cannot be argued that they- are With Bunday Marning Million, For the full board to ratify the popular in Germany, Italy or Japan THEODORE W. NOYES, Editor. principle involved would be to put the today. Indeed, 11 is evident that fostering of unionism ahead of our they could not be offered unspolled WASHINGTON, D. c. military necessities. This war will under any dictatorship. They are a WEDNESDAY September 16, 1M1 not be won that way. product of the greatest mind of the The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Anglo-Baxon race, and that mind Main Office: 11th BL and Pronertrania Ave. New York Office: 110 East find BL Dangerous Illusions is unchained in the nations arrayed Chicago Office: 435 North Michigan Ave. In his recent address stressing the against the aggressor powers. Curl- Delivered by Carrier-Metropelltan Area. Importance of recognizing the fact ously, perhaps, the poet-anticipated Collections made at the end of each month or each WHIL Orders may be sent by mail or Mid- that this war is the "real thing, the prevailing erisis, Let any skeptic shone National 5000 Eventing and Bunday Recular The Edition, per me. or 18c INT week played for keeps," Ambassador Grew read "Macbeth" in the light of the TM Evening Blar. 45s per as. or 10e per work was urging the people and the Gov- fires 1St by Hitler and he will be The Bunday Blar 0c per 4007 Mubi Final Edities. ernment of this country to rid their convinced. Also It is "Hamlet," born Nicht Final and Sunday Biar 85c per month Final Biar 600 MI mosta minds of the Illusions which are again, who symbolizes most per- threatening us with military defeat. fectly the aptrit of determination Outside of Metropolitan Area. Carrier or Earal Tabe Delivert. Just how we have been, and are to set the world right. The Invoice and Bunday Blaz $1 no NT month The Evening Bar são per month being, handicapped by muddy think- The Bunday Birth 10c per copy Ing can best be illustrated by looking Injurious and Pointless Rates by Mall-Payable in Advance, back over the past year or two and Cavalrymen used to say that each Anzwhere la United Blates, Delivared appraising the things we believed in trooper thought his own mount the Bundar Evening. Bundar, year $12.00 $8.00 85,00 then when measured against the war best in the regiment. The idea WM months $4.00 84,00 $2.50 month $1.00 The 50e picture as we see It today. This is never discouraged/b the officers. It Intered M second matter port after not merely * matter of second helped morale. It was a psychological Washington, D. c. guessing must recognise these offset to actual defects in horseflesh. Member of the Associated Press. past mistakes to measure the cor- Some of our Congressment seem to The Associated Press se exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all sews disputches rectness of our present attitude, the be taking the opposite course in their creditas to . or not otherwise credited in this mar and also the loss) news published herein. It was not so long before Pearl criticism of American airplanes. Os- All Fights of publication et special direction Harbor that we were. told we could berein also are reserved. tenalbly hitting at the "brass hats"- have guns and butter, too. The a generic term applied in derogation people believed 11. They believed Getting in the Scrap of military leadership-what they that our social gains could be pre- actually are accomplishing is to tear As the President said yesterday, the served, because every one said. so. down civilian morale and the morale Government yet may be forced to We were going to supertmpose our of the pllots. At least the pilots who confiscate metal in order to get the military program on our normal In- are yet- to fly in combat and ecrap It needs for manufacture of dustrial-establfshment so that there when they do, will take off handi- steel. But there is still a vast and would be plenty of everything-mu- capped at the very outset by the feel- virtually untouched reservoir of val- nitions as well as washing machines. ing that they are armed with inferior uable scrap metal in homes and on And all of this was going to be done weapons. That, in itself, is & dan- farms, readily available and cheer- in a forty-hour week, because ex- gerous handicap. fully surrendered if means are fur- perience had shown, it was said, that We cannot hope, nor would it be nished to haul it away. men could not work longer hours destrable, to stifie criticism of the A major difficulty in Washington's and retain their efficiency. war effort in Congress. But It would past scrap campaign has been that We have gotten over most of those be E. far less dangerous sort of crit- normal collection agencies, over- illusions by now, but we believed leism If It were made specific and if whelmed as they are by the demand, them at the time. And, that being generalities, in relation to leadership have been unable to make individual the case, It is not surprising that and equipment, were abandoned en- trips to homes unless the metal to be our enemies believed them, too-and tirely. collected was valuable enough to pay jumped to the conclusion that we There is a tendency in Congress to for the trip. This difficulty will be would never be ready to fight, speak of airplanes indiscriminately. eliminated under plans announced This obviously was the background Comparisons of this nature are ut- by the Commissioners' committee. that Ambassador Grew had in mind terly without meaning. You cannot Next Sunday all residents living in when he said that we have been say, and be accurate or informative, the area east of North and South challenged by a people (the Japa- that British airplanes are better than Capitol streets and of the Ana- nese) who have been hypnotized into American airplanes, or that German costia River are requested to place believing that democracy weakens airplanes are better than British their metal scrap at the curb by 8 those who possess: It, that high standard of living weakens those who planes. You cannot my that the q'clock in the morning. During the enjoy 1t, that peace and the,love of Japanese Zero fighter is a. better ship day trucks will call for it and trans- than American fighter. Such port It to designated depota, where It peace weaken those who >cherish comparisons are irrelevant-as If the will be assorted and hauled away to them." Were our enemies wrong in the processors for loading on railroad holding these beliefs? Mr." Grew comparison were between the effi- ears. On the following Sunday resi- Implies his conviction that they were, clency of a plough horse and & race dents in the areas west of North and but the military record should give horse, without specifying the field in us some pause on this score. which the efficiency were to be ap- South Capitol streets will do the same thing. The, Japanese have not enjoyed plied. Following this quick collection ef- democracy, a high living standard, Rapid specialization in aircraft, de- fort, the machinery set up by the Dis- nor even entertained a love of peace. signed for particular areas of combat But, with greatly inferior resources, and the performance of definite trict Salvage Committee will resume they have gained more by conquest tasks, no longer permits of general- its functioning, with school children and others "mopping up" the terri- in less time than any other modern ized comparisons of merit. Planes tories and collecting what has been nation. They may lose it all in the superior in one respect are inferior left over. In this respect, the Presi- end, but It is foolish to ignore or to in others. The Japanese Zero has minimise what they have been able gained speed and maneuverability dent recalled yesterday that the first search of the White House yielded to accomplish. and altitude at the sacrifice of arma- One of our most popular present- ment. Which 1a, in the long run, enough scrap to all three trucks But day convictions is that somehow preferable-these qualities or arma- later on & second search revealed enough left-over materials to fill still "free" men will always outfight and ment and armor? The British Spit- another truck, Private homeowners outproduce those who have no Indi- fire was designed and developed to vidual freedom. But this dangerous fight the Battle of Britain In some will find themselves repeating the just to take this for granted and to respects supetion on this battle front, President's experience on a smaller assume, because we are free, that It is definitely inferior on others. scale. For there is a valuable assort- ment of usable scrap in almost every ultimate victory is inevitable. France As everybody knows, military avia- home, if only the search for it will be was a free nation. The British are tion in this country was disgracefully made. free, too, but after four years of starved until just before we entered Here is a splendid opportunity for preparation for war their record as this war. We have had to design every one to make a valuable contri- a whole is not impressive. On the planes without knowing where they bution of material vitally needed in other hand, the Russians were not were to fight. We have had to stand- fighting the war. free, but we hall them today as the ardise to get rapid production. We one United Nation which has been doubtless have emphasized qualities A Strange Doctrine able to meet the full force of Ger- which, under important conditions, man military might and still survive. are less valuable than others. Cer- A recent report from a War Labor Board panel recommends that an In this country, after nine months tainly we will not gain air superiority of adverse fighting, It is doubtful overnight. Yet actual battle reports employer with plants in Chicago and that we have yet looked the facts in indicate the high quality of our Elizabeth, N. J., be ordered to sign a the face. Mr. Grew urges us to "stop planes and of our pllots. union shop contract despite the fact groping." Our production leaders What purpose, then, is being served that he has been operating on an plead with men to stop strikes, to by generalized, loose talk in Con- open shop basis since May, 1941. work harder, to give up Monday lay- gress, based on second-hand infor- Apparently this panel recom- offs and week-end holidays. There mation anonymously supplied, the mendation poses a difficult question are no strikes and no lay-offs in the purport of which is that we are for the full board, which, in promul- enemy countries; they are not trying manufacturing inferior, second-rate gating its so-called union security to maintain the living standards of airplanes? Is this criticism helpful formula, has taken the position, by the pressure groups; they are not to the war effort? If it is not, there implication if not in express terms, waiting until after an election to should be an end to it. that it would not order the union draft the young men and the men shop. The union security clause is with dependents. They are fighting intended to enable unions to main- the war, in deadly earnest, with tain their membership to the extent everything that they have, and they that workers desire to retain their are winning dt. We will not begin union status, but the board has rec- to defeat them in any important ognized that it ought not to use its sense, until we discard the laist of our authority to compel all employes to illusions and make up our minds to join a union, which is the case under fight harder than they are fighting, a union shop agreement. In these both on the battlefronts and at home. circumstances, it is difficult to see We are not going to win just because how the board could require an em- we are free men, who believe in ployer to restore a union shop agree- democracy and the ways of peace. ment which expired sixteen months ago without going dangerously far Freedom's Bard añeld from the principles it has laid The annual Shakespeare festival down under the maintenance of at Stratford-on-Avon, where the membership formula poet was born on St. George's Day, There is another aspect of the 1564, has survived three years of panel's ruling, however, which seems war, thanks to "the enthusiasm of strangely out of line with the reall- the people." Air raids, gasoline ra- ties of our military requirements, and tioning, constant interference with which should interest the board ordinary train schedules, many other members and the American people difficulties are necessarily admitted as a whole. One of the reasons cited by the Memorial Theater manage- by the employer in explanation of ment, but there have been audi- the refusal to-extend the union shop ences for nine different produc- agreement was the inability of the tions this season "Midsummer union (CIO) to provide a necessary Night's Dream," As You Like It," supply of skilled craftsmen. To meet "The Winter's Tale," The Tem- this difficulty, the panel, with the pest,' The Taming of the Shrew," Mndustry member dissenting, pro- "The Merchant of Venice," "Mac- posed that the company be permitted beth," "Hamlet and Sheridan's to hire AFL members, who would be The School for Scandal." Each of exempt from the union shop, when the works presented- has its -own the CIO group could not supply distinct claim upon the British na- tion and the world at large. skilled help, or when it was impos- sible to find non-union men who Shakespeare, as It happens, stands very close to the Bible and to the would agree to join the CIO union. basic charters upon which life in Thus, the panel apparently is of the United States was established- the opinion that a. half-union loaf is the Mayflower Compact, the Dec- better than none, and that non- laration of Independence, the Con- union men should not be permitted stitution. Take away his book and to work in these plants even when what remains is only a fragment. the union in question is unable to He is as much American as he is supply necessary help from among British. And all the vast body of its own members. This is a very literature accumulated since he died strange doctrine for a panel of the in 1616 is the common possession War Labor Board to be preaching at of the English-speaking community a time when the President and Don- wherever It may dwell. ald Nelson, war production chief, are Of course, Shakespeare's plays have deploring the inadequacy of our been presented in the Axis countries THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942. FULL WAR SUPPORT national basis, Mr. Witherow warned, "It may benefit those in Swedish Bishops Protest tion Board, and expressed the hope the war on a scale greater than that the problem would be solved that of the automobile industry. foreign lands, but only by the im- Norse Jews' Persecution under new regulations and the re- Yesterday's congress program poverishment of the American peo- PLEDGED BY N. A. M. ple," for "government has no cently announced controlled ma- included also three panels, dealing By Telephone to THE New YORK TIMES. with economic stabilization, rene- source of capital except by taking terials plans. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 2 gotiation of contracts and civilian the Income of its citizens." "The American people-will shoul- -A flaming protest against per- Railroad Record Reviewed industry. Participating in the dis- der crushing tax burdens cheer- secution of Norwegian Jews has Ernest E. Norris, president of cussions were government officials But Speakers Denounce Use fully during the war, but I ques- been issued and signed tonight the Southern Railway System, told and representatives of industry. tion whether they will encourage by all Swedish Bishops, headed the Congress that 85 per cent of of Emergency as Springboard their government to raise the tax by Archbishop Eidem. Soviet Spy in Sweden Sentenced the increase of the nation's total "Let us pray for our brothers STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 2 burden even higher when peace for Revolutionary Experiments comes," Mr. Witherow said. of the tribe of Israel," says the freight traffic since Pearl Harbor (Reuter)-Vasillo Sidorenko, di- The task of economic reconstruc- protest, which scores in particu- has been handled by the railroads. rector of the Soviet Travel Bureau tion after the war in the United larly severe terms introduction He paid tribute to Joseph B. in Stockholm, was sentenced today into the Scandinavian peninsula Eastman, director of the Office of WAR CABINET ADVOCATED States must be that of private en- of the inhuman methods alien to Transportation, saying "he has the to ten years' penal servitude on a terprise, he maintained. Private sincere respect and confidence of charge of espionage. A Swedish capital "can and will do the job," the sense of justice and compas- he added, If the government would sion of the peoples up here. every railroad officer." woman and her 17-year-old daug? "The resulting teamwork of the ter were sentenced to lesser pri- W.P. Witherow Opposes Plans declare that "private capital will ODT and the railroads has been a terms for participation. be encouraged to provide the mo- for Radical Readjustment of aim seems to be not winning the major factor in the latter's contri- tive power for post war recon- war. but the substitution of politi- bution to the war effort," he struction." Economic Structure cal domination for industrial self- added. To promote more efficient con- government," Mr. Pew charged. Mr. Norris warned, however, duct of the war and reduce "red "The industry of this country can- that unless the railroads could get tape," Mr. Witherow urged the not be run from Washington. This the cars, locomotives, rails and Pledging their full continued setting up, of a war cabinet com- war cannot be won in Washington. mantenance material they need," support to the war production pro- prised of the administrative head But it can, be lost there." we may encounter difficulties in gram and acceptance of any BAC- of each important division of the This is no time for "business re- moving all of next year's traffic rifices that may be necessary to war machinery. form," Mr. Pew insisted, saying efficiently and promptly." achieve victory, leaders of Ameri- "One of the significant members that "unfortunately the socialistic of that war Cabinet," he empha- planners of the New Deal are re- Aircraft Leader Speaks can industry In addresses before sized, "should be the one man who celving encouragement from many Eugene E. Wilson, president of the War Congress sponsored by has full authority over the produc- men whose faith in the worth of United Aircraft Corporation, said the National Association of Manu- tion of war material. I cannot the American system is beyond that the aircraft Industry has been facturers demanded yesterday that come down too hard or with too challenge." justly characterized as "America's the system of free enterprise be much emphasis on that word 'one.' Manpower Draft Opposed No. 1 industrial glant." He point- preserved after the war and Manpower problems, war financ- ed out that recently Donald Nel- warnd against utilizing the war Ing and other major undertakings Mr. Pew declared that the pro- son, War Production Board chief, emergency as a springboard for also should have single-headed rep- posed drafting of manpower for In- had estimated its peak at 30 to 40 revolutionary experimentation. resentation on the war Cabinet." dustry arose from a "bureaucratic billion dollars, or ten times the Thousands of industrialista from desire for a short-cut through co- peak of automotive production. all parts of the nation, assembled Would Limit Labor's Role erción that in the end will be "Loyal initiative is our secret at the Waldorf-Astoria, heard de- Mr. Witherow contended also proven going the long way around." weapon," Mr. Wilson said. "Against mands for more efficient organiza- that management-labor cooperation "Compelling men to work where It no aggressor can prevail. The tion of production, curtailment of is "a worthy and easential goal," they do not desire would strip the cost of victory will depend upon bureaucracy and "no surrender" but that It "should not be trans- worker of his dignity as an Indivi- how we utilize it. American Indus- to those "who desire to change our lated into that dangerous substitute dual and reduce his to the status try has 80 far wielded It quite well form of society and government." -Jonit management-labor respon- of A serf," Mr. Pew said in oppos- indeed." Leading In these demands was sibility." ing the proposal for the freezing of Henry J. Kaiser, Pacific Const W. P. Witherow, president of the "Labor's more definite responsi- labor. "The surest way for us to shipbuilder, disclosed in an inter- National Association of Manufac- bility in the war management pic- lose this war is to ape Hitler. The view that In about two months he turers, who declared that while the ture should be in the field of its surest and quickest way to win would be able to define publicly government must participate in in- specialized ability," he said. "La- this war is to place our faith in his plans for the giant cargo planes ternational affairs after the war, gor leaders should be put In an of- American initiative. to be built by his organization and It should not attempt to "dominate ficial position to keep their no- "Cut away the ropes of bureau- Howard Hughes. $2750 the economic foundation of the strike pledge, to hold down the cratic red tape now hamatringing Mr. Kalser, who will address the peacetime world." alarming growth of absenteeism, Industry. Give management and congress at the closing session to- Wallace Program Assalled put an end to the production de- labor a chance to exercise initiative morrow evening, said the ships Without mentioning his name, lays of jurisdictional strikes." by reopening the door of oppor- "will certainly be able to fly over Mr. Witherew assailed also the tunity. Do these things and the the ocean, land cargo and fly back without refueling." achieve victory, leaders of Ameri- of that war Cabinet," he empira- planners of the New Deal are re- sized, "should be the one man who celving encouragement from many Eugene E. Wilson, president of can industry in addresses before the War Congress sponsored by has full authority over the produc- men whose faith in the worth of United Aircraft Corporation, said tion of war material. I cannot the American system is beyond that the aircraft industry has been the National Association of Manu- facturers demanded yesterday that come down too hard or with too challenge." justly characterized as "America's No, 1 industrial giant." He point- the system of free enterprise be much emphasis on that word 'one.' Manpower Draft Opposed ed out that recently Donald Nel- preserved after the war and Manpower problems, war financ- Mr. Pew declared that the pro- son, War Production Board chief, warnd against utilizing the war Ing and other major undertakings emergency as a springboard for also should have single-headed rep- posed drafting of manpower for in- had estimated its peak at 30 to 40 revolutionary experimentation. dustry arose from & "bureaucratic billion dollars, or ten times the resentation on the war Cabinet." Thousands of industrialists from desire for a short-cut through CO+ peak of automotive production. all parts of the nation, assembled Would Limit Labor's Role erçión that In the end will be Loyal initiative is our secret at the Waldorf-Astoria, heard de- proven going the long way around," weapon," Mr. Wilson said. "Against Mr. Witherow contended also that management-labor cooperation "Compelling men to work where It no aggressor can prevail. The mands for more efficient organiza- is "a worthy and essential goal," they do not desire would strip the cost of victory will depend upon tion of production, curtailment of worker of his dignity as an Indivi- how we utilize it. American indus- bureaucracy and "no surrender" but that it "should not be trans- to those "who desire to change our dual and reduce his to the status try has so far wielded It quite well lated into that dangerous substitute form of society and government." of a serf," Mr. Pew said in oppos- Indeed.' -jonit management-labor respon- ing the proposal for the freezing of Henry J. Kaiser, Pacific Coast Leading in these demands was sibility W. P. Witherow, president of the labor. "The surest way for us to shipbuilder, disclosed in an inter- "Labor's more definite responsl- National Association of Manufac- bility in the war management ple- lose this war is to ape Hitler. The view that in about two months he surest and quickest way to win would be able to define publicly turera, who declared that while the ture should be in the field of its this war is to place our faith in his plans for the giant cargo planes government must participate in in- specialized ability," he said. "La- American initiative, to be built by his organization and ternational affairs after the war, gor leaders should be put in an of- $2750 it should not attempt to "dominate "Cut away the ropes of bureau- Howard Hughes. ficial position to keep their no- the economic foundation of the cratic red tape now hamatringing Mr. Kajser, who will address the strike pledge, to hold down the peacetime world." Industry. Give management and congress at the closing session to- alarming growth of absenteeism, labor a chance to exercise Initiative morrow evening, said the ships Wallace Program Assalled put an end to the production de- by reopening the door of oppor- "will certainly be able to fly over Without mentioning his name, lays of jurisdictional strikes." tunity. Do these things and the the ocean, land cargo and fly back Mr. Witherow assalled also the Mr. Witherow assailed the pro- output of war materials will soar without refueling." gram expounded by Vice President $25,000 limitation on salaries, say- to heights that even today would AS & result, they must be able Henry A. Wallace for a "people's ing this would not help win the be called fantastic. Fail to do them, to carry the greatest possible load revolution" as the objective of the war or facilitate its financing, nor on the lowest possible consumption Store Hours 9:30 and we lose initiative, lose produc- war on the basis of a radical re- stop Inflation. tion, lose the war, lose our free- of gasoline," he explained. Thursdays until adjustment of the economic struc- "This lead was unblushingly bor- dom, and become German and Mr. Kaiser foresaw the develop- rowed from the public platform of ture. JJapanese slaves." ment of commercial aviation after Mr. Witherow, who is also presi- the Communist party in 1928," he charged, "and foisted upon the War Production Praised dent of the Blaw-Knox Company, demanded that the post-war read- country over the expressed refusal Congratulating the industrialists justment in the United States be of Congress to pass such & restric- upon-"the magnificent job of pro- founded upon the basis of encour- tion. It constitutes open, recog- duction" they have done so far nizable surrender to those who de- Hiland G. Batcheller, chief of the agement of private capital. "Personally, I am not interested sire to change our form of society iron and steel branch of the War and government, It is a ceiling on Production Board, declared that In any other form of government initiative, a damper on opportu- the board also deserves "some or form of economy than our own," nity. We seem fond of following credits" for keeping industry sup- be said. "I admire beyond expres- the English pattern in most things lied with the necessary materials. sion the stand the Russians have but- this: in England they knight He cited figures showing the phe- made. They are fighting nobly for Russia and Soviet ideals. We're business men for good services- nomenal growth in steel output over here we indict them." under the strees of the war emer- fighting for America and Ameri- can ideals. I am not making guns Pew Criticizes 'Restrictions' gency, pointing out that 1,100,000 tons of plates were delivered in or tanks to win & 'people's revolu- J. Howard Pew, president of the October, 1942, an increase of al- tion.' I am making armament to Sun Ojl Company, Philadelphia, de- most 100 per cent in this critical help our boys save America. I clared that "government regimen- item over the corresponding don't want any "modified" free en- tation and industrial cartels are month of 1941. terprise or ЫТ of rightiess democ- Slamese twins of eyll, for one is "The rate at which you can now racy. Immediately after the war, just as destructive of industrial turn the steel and other raw ma- government aid to war-torn coun- production as the other." terials which are furnished to you tries is a foregone conclusion. But Mr/ Pew said that government into finished munitions and tools not the rehabilitation of their eçon- policies threatening war produc- of war is literally incredible omy or the reforming of their lives. tion included renegotiation of war in terms of & year or eighteen I am not fighting for a. quart of contracts, time and half pay for months ago," Mr. Batcheller said, milk for every Hottentot, or for workers without similar Incen- He added that the resultant TVA on the Danube, or for govern- Live for management, the $25,000 problem of continuing to provide mental handouts of free Utopia salary limitation, and similar 're- raw materials to meet the expand- f-government undertakes & strictions." ed production rate is being tackled share-the-wealth plan on an inter- In Washington, at times, the with energy by the War Producti A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words etir up anger.-Proverbs, XV., 1. (The text for today is suggested by Rev. Walter G. Brun, pastor, Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd, Brooklyn. The next text will be suggested by Rev. Donald F. Schu- mann, rector, St. Josephs Episcopal Church, Queens Village.) Drip Coffee RAT ONING GOOD TO THE LAST DROP ONE-CUP-AURY PLASCHCE War News The People Want Unvarnished Truth About Our Battles There is not & truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole of candor toward the people by our rulers is, in return, to inspire a lack of confidence of world. -Thomas Jefferson in a letter, to the people in the men conducting this war- Henry Lee in 1826. a grave situation fraught with peril to all F there is an underground swell of re- of us. I sentment throughout the country against The newspapers-by emphasizing "good" the Administration-and acute Wash- news and minimizing "bad" news-have loy- ally played this disreputable game of hide- ington observers say there is-one cause of it may be laid to the Administration treat- and-seek with the Government up to date. ment of the war news. On this very subject, Mr. William Ran- The American people do not like the dolph Hearst recently in a vigorous editorial truth on vital matters needlessly withheld addressed to the whole nation said: from them. "I think the public likes to hear true They do not like to be told UNTRUTHS news. instead of TRUTHS. "Every once in a while an Administra- They resent this attitude of the powers tion official or military officer rises to that be in Washington. his feet and declares that we are losing the Concretely: war and that the people are to blame. 1. After the Doolittle raid on Tokio last "The people are not to blame. April, Washington told us "no losses.' Six "They are doing everything they are months afterward the people are reluctantly called upon to do-everything they pos- told planes were lost and some of Doolittle's sibly can do, bombers' are now prisoners in Japan. "They are sacrificing their sons and 2. Up until almost the last moment the their fortunes. authorities led us to believe that we were "If the war is being lost it is being lost winning the battle of Bataan. through bad leadership and possibly to a 3. The American people have never been degree through bad journalism-journal. told our exact losses in planes and damaged ism which takes the easiest way and avoids ships at Pearl Harbor. the hard realities. 4. When the Aleutians were invaded we "I think the newspapers should per- were-there is no other word for it-delib- form their functions and tell the truth- erately LIED TO for days. They told us there print the bad news along with the good were no Japanese in the Aleutians." Then news. they dismissed the matter as "unimportant" "If we are losing the war, as these im- when, as & matter of fact, the invasion of portant officials say, let as print how we American territory by enemies is of over- are losing it and why we are losing it." whelming importance at ANY TIME AND The Administration has as great a re- IN ANY PLACE: sponsibility as the press. 5. The Administration withheld from the That responsibility involves the TRUTH, American people for SIXTY-FIVE days that the WHOLE TRUTH and NOTHING BUT three of our cruisers had been sunk in the THE TRUTH. first enemy onset in Guadalcanal. We are all the heirs of Jefferson, and as 6. The loss of the airplane carrier Wasp he said he did not FEAR the truth, neither was suppressed for more than a month. do the people of America-whether it comes The cumulative effect of this evident lack from Valley Forge, Bull Run or Guadalcanal. Over-Burdened Educations in Hospitals Uniforms THE Greater New York Hospital Associa expréssed concern over the IT IS at comforting and satisfying thing to know that America's armed forces, man shortage of skilled workers in its institutions. for man, boast the highest educational level Hospitals have lost not only their doctors, of any in the world. Not only are they the nurses and technicians, but such trained me- most educated, according to a dispatch sent chanical workers as electricians, engineers to the New York Journal-American from its and carpenters as well. Washington bureau, but they are the most The situation in now somewhat alarm- temperate and the most music-minded! ing." the Association frankly states. "The Compared to World War I, in which tremendous increase in births, added to only 1,500,000 high school graduates were the normal demand for the care of the sick and injured, with the peak period of available for the draft, today more than sick care just abead, is & source of worry 7,000,000 men with high school diplomas or to trustees and hospital administrators. better are available. And through the Army What is the solution! Institute, a virtual service university, an en- The Association urges fewer visits to listed man can continue his education so that patients for one thing. It asks the public he becomes not only a better soldier and a to consider the hospitals' problems and "bear better citizen, but better fitted for the civil- with them in these times." ian life he resumes after the war. MR$. WILLIAM L. GIBSON I 11-2-42 MIAMI, FLORIDA 535 So. PALMWAY LAKE Worth FLA. Dear Mr. President,- 9 9 enjoyed this cartoon so much, 9 filt you should have some of the same chuckles that have shaken me each time 9 have looked at it today. Thank God for a Country when ur may enjoy things of this nature without fear. 9am sure Mrs. Roosevelt would enjoy it too. Tell Ross his navy seems to be doing all right, from MRS. WILLIAM L. GIBSON 000 NORTH WEST 77TH STREET MIAMI, FLORIDA tonights Goad cast. May God and the wisdom of the White House continue to further our interests, on land as will as at sea. with Sincerely William L Gibson THE PALM BEACH POST Monday Morning, November 2, 1942 Just Don't Be Surprised, That's All MY DAY HAS BEEN RATHER À BUSY ONE. OF 8 E The New York Times erty-a decency that will preserve his stree human dignity and & liberty which by P Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off. will permit him to make & living ac- time "AM the News Thef's FM to Prist." cording to his abilities, without fear ADOLPH 8. 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If things have been going a well with him he is vigorous looking, Les Having hitched his own little wagon, to Hitler's fading star, Leval now par- often, but not always, with 4. face To rota Hitler's battlecry against the tanned and toughened by weather. He of 1 menace of Communism, which he de- may have a tense look about the eyes. for You might, too, if you had been where alw clares is threatening France, Europe be has been, eve and civilization. That was to be ex- pected. Communism and conquest He follows an occupation that pro- were the two talking points which vides for no parades. He goes about brought Hitler to power in Germany. his business in secret. No whisties "D By raising the threat of & Communist blow for him and no flags fly when he este dictatorship in Germany he won the puta to sea. His work, by long habit, sonr following of the German bourgeolale; has become monotonous. Day by day "ca by promising conquesta he won the the gray, the green, the blue scenery of be support of the military and the Ger- the ocean follows him. His variety is hea man youth. And a crusade against storm, fog and the blackness of night. sari- Communism is the alogan with which There are twenty-four hours in his oth. day, sixty minutes in each of those dest Hitler to now trying to sell his dicta- hours, sixty seconds in each of those the torship to, Europe and the world. Laval is using the same slogan to sell minutes-and for days on end any one who of the aeconds may be the one in which son France to Hitler. But Laval dons the armor of the the enemy strikes. This knowledge be the carries with him when be works, when moi anti-Communist crussder too late. Be- cause of the subversive and, in the re- be eata, when be reads, talks or plays can ami sult, suicidal activities of a Communist cards, when be smokes his pipe, when International guided by the Trotskyist he tries to sleep. He knows what can and ideology of the proletarian world revo- be done to a man by an exploding tor- sar jution, Hitler could still raise an Issue pedo, by burning eil, by rough water, and by cold, by hunger, by thirst. the, which frightened many Germans into Yet he goes about his necessary busi- T his camp and won a following for simi- ness. Escaping once, twice, three times, hun lar crusaders elsewhere, including the for 1. United States. But with the "liquida-, perhaps tossing in a small bost for stori tion" of the Trotskyists in Russia, the days, he ships again. His is the strength that Lies our earth-wide batties to the as P proletarian world revolution began to est 1 take & back seat, on which sat in the homeland. If be were to shrink from his task the battles would not be good main the Communist dupes in other "cas countries, whom the Moscow rulers de- fought, the cause would be lost who spised as tools and liquidated first Much is being done for the merchant recei wherever Moscow !tself took over, as sallor by the United Seamen's Service. work in the Baltic states. The state of There la much that be still needa, par- impor Stalin became more and more a ticularly after be has suffered ship- tional state, and the Communist Inter- wreck. But mostly be needa to know national became the tool of Russian that we know that be stands in honor power politics. And this nationaliza- with the other brave men who are win- Cold, tion of the Bolshevist revolution is ning this war. It is too bad that he verity now being completed and solidified in wears no uniform, ribbon or button to in who the fires of the Russo-German war, tell us what be in. But those who can depend Stalin himself was the first to realize read men's faces, even when they are readir this. He was the first to take account least pretentious, least conscious of the fr of the fact that as a crusader for Com- their own worth, may perceive that would munism, fighting in foreign, even valor in staelf a decoration. mero though adjacent, lands, Russia was no here match for Hitler, but that It developed SAFE WINTER DRIVING orde an unparalleled heroism which won the Winter motoring, always more haz- raw applause and the thanks of the world ardous than that of other sessons, de- Web when it began to fight in defense of mands special precautions this year. serval Russia's own soil. The alogans with There is extra congestion in the neigh- discun which Stalin to spurring the Russian, borhood of industrial plants, military try main armies to ever greater efforta today, posts and construction projects. The be met are not the Marxist slogans, urging share-your-car practice-not yet nearly right un the proletarians of the world to unite, as well established it should be in man a but alogana about patriotism, liberty the interest of -rubber conservation- erage. and the fatherland. brings added responsibilities because of viewpi As regards the rest of Europe, there heavier average loading of passenger The are good reasons to believe that the cars. The dimout," both in cities and tures masses who have been crushed in the rural areas, increases the danger of front fight between Communism and Fascism night accidenta. They are sharply up his de are sick and tired of all "lama." The in New York City this month as com- The e ground swell throughout the world is pared with the same period last year. er; tl against fanaticism, intolerance and, most of all, against the strutting and The War Department and the Inter- down national Association of Chiefs of Police the o. posing conquerors. After wandering for two decades In the wilderness of have joined in prescribing simple but above purely intellectual abstractions or often neglected rules for Winter driv- show clashing ideologies, which led only to ing based upon studies made by the a wo National Safety Council. These in- the } a new world holocaust, the patient but clude check-up of brakes, use of chains the fs not always articulate masses are find- on anowy or toy roads (which cuta under ing their way back to the fundamen- tals of existence, to the eternal verities stopping distance some 50 per cent) The which & super-sophisticated age had and maintenance of windshield wipers, of tt defrosters and headlights. But more recor tried to ant aside as too hackneyed for modernity. than any other one thing it in the at- by If titude of the driver and the pedestrian The We can believe that the world that that counter Impatience, a careless Com; is being forged in the crucible of this war is not going to be a world regi- effort to save at most a few seconds serva mented in the name of any single Ide- or minutes, may cost a life or cause a that crippling injury. The driver and the abus elogy or panacea, but a very practical world, in which man will demand & walker must remember that they too simp modicum of human decency and lib- are at war, that their behavior on the right THE BOSTON HERALD, TUES THE MAIL BAG French Crisis Military, Not Political To the Editor of The Herald: How does a Frenchman react to the present developments in French North Africa? The question has been asked me several times in the last few days. May try to answer It here? My feeling is & combination of happiness, gratitude and anguish, There is anguish at the thought of so many new miseries and sufferings failing anew upon France. Not to feel this angulah would be unnatural and inhuman. At the same time, we all realize that this is part of the great surgical operation undertaken today to free the world of the scourge of Nari domination. It has got to be accepted, and We accept 15. Then there is happiness, because we are witnessing & major step forward on the road to victory and to the liberation of Prance as well as to the restoration of her demo- cratic liberty with all lta free in- stitutions. When we heard the message in Prench of the President of the United States, tears came to our eyes, and we experienced our first moment of joy and real hope since the-nightmare of the armistice. Finally, there is gratitude, because we, the men who fought on the French front in the World War, know that once more America is coming to help and save us. and, this time, to restore our indepen- dence. AL the present moment I refuse to think of anything else. There is no place for personal opinions in such big-scale military matters, and the present crisis La & military, not & political one. The man of the day is neither Darlan, por Nogues, nor Giraud, nor even de Gaulle, nor any- cos else: it is Eisenhower and, be- hind and above him, the Com- mander-in-Chief of all American forces, President Roosevelt. The Allied forces are achieving in French North Africa a fest unprece- dented in history. The command- ers of these forces know what they have to contend with; we dont'. They know the capital importance of two factors: the first one is speed, to get to Tunis and beyond before the enemy gains & strong foothold there. The second is to manage things in such a way that the Vichy forces in North Africa will not be- come an obstacle to be overcome by bloodshed, and, if possible, will Join in the fight. Whether this can be done by using Giraud, or Darlan, or Nogues, or whoever is usable, is a question for Gen, Eisenhower to de- cide, not for us. For the moment, the political implications are negli- gible. The day will come when they resume their importance, and be again open for discussion: but that day has not come vet. Especially since we have received the positive information that all the French underground movements of resistance have recognized Gen. de Gaulle as their leader and the French National Committee in Lon- don as trustee of the French demo- cratic institutions, most of us, Frenchmen, inside and outside France, hope that he and the Na- tional Committee will play & de- claive part in the work of libera- tion of the territory and of the Tes- toration of democratic freedom. We hope also that the development of military operations and local condi- tions in Northern Africa will make it possible for the Pighting French forces, now already. fighting in Libya or on active duty in the Chad region, to take part in the battles fought Africa. on French territory in North We consider It as absurd, and in complete contradiction to the sol- emn declarations of the President, that any kind of government might be organized under the auspices of men who have been month after month denounced as Pascista, col- laborationista or traitors. Darlan is one of these men: His record for the last two years is clear, eloquent, and repulaive. We are confident that neither the President nor the State Department is actually think- ing of giving him any dignified and honorable role, he is & despicable opportunist, & man without con- science or dignity, a Quisting. His main purpose, at this moment, is to save his skin, Nothing respectable about it. If he can be of any use at this moment, all right, let's use him. Squeeze the orange, and then throw It away, We shall never stand for any kind of "Darlan government." However, If Gen. Eisenhower be- lleves he can get something out of Darlan, let him alone. He knows. If, within a few days, he wants to shelve him, let him alone. If he feels that de Gaulle or Giraud is the best bet, again let him alone, I do n.t know of any Frenchman or American in a justified position to Indulge in any back-seat driving, when a man like Eisenhower is at the wheel. As a Frenchman for twenty-five years in America, I limit my field of speculation to three ideas: first, the war has to be won, and it will be won on the battlefields, and not by Ideological discussions; second, my country is enslaved. and therefore my heart bursts with joy at any news which means a new effort to give France her freedom: third, that freedom means not only the liberation of her soil, but the libera- tion of her soul; and I trust Amer- ica, speaking through her President, to help France to return to her tra- dition of "liberty, equality, frater- nity," the common heritage of our two great democracies. Anything else would not be a liberation. I feel confident that this state- ment reflects the views of most French people in the United States. ANDRE MORIZE, Harvard University. ECEMBER 27, 1942. 3 Power to Perpetuate Peace Is Regarded as World Goal ov'a geta the Many Problems Will Have to Be Faced, Including That of Policing by Allied Nations, hout Which Will Have to Be Fitted Into an Organization for General Welfare and neral The writer of the following letter 4a could social alma for a democratic society. forms flow the stream of competition, a member of the Committee for Na- But it could M properly have been made ge in political differences, social adjustment tional Morole and e trustee of the # been before the war as during the war. Much and progress. We progressively achieve World Peace Foundation di and of it is concerned not primarily with added sets of these forms; they become Anglo- To THE EDITOR OF THE New YORK Tume: war alma growing out of this war, but our temporarily "static" law-personal How much or how little is involved of general peacetime social alma, When iquered rights, the ballot, representation, civil in the message "And on earth peace"? of course he emphasized that this is & safety, social security. # been In this war we have at times deserved fight for victory between an arbitrary In the world of nations today We are the phrase "too little and too late." In or slave world and & reasonable or free merged attempting to establish peace under law llusion- looking tow*rd the peace, we at pres- world, and called for the overthrow of between nations as we have between id noth- ent need the warning "too much and conquering aggreasors, he expressed & citizens, as a conditioning framework d things too soon." If ridding the world of clear purpose inherent in this war and for the struggle for progress. Without As for great military conquesta depends upon the peace to come out of It: It we can go little farther la the 40- econcile our setting up at one and the same The British Beveridge report like- deavor to bring about human welfare. 1th the time the millennium in every other de- wise is great social document. In Many a German and some Japanese on and partment of life, we are doomed. to only one or two connections perhaps think, feel, aspire and act like the rest bit their periodic catastrophes is it a/report on post-war policies as of us. But from time immemorial, and that It would help us more clearly to see such, related to the problem of war; in especially latterly for more than one That is our alms so far as they affect war If dealing with the shifts back to peace generation, there have been nurtured Sisters" we could fix ta our minds the thought employment of returned soldiers, It certain litters of tiger cube to whom to be that there are two kinds of revolution- does deal with a war-peace problem milk is anathema and blood la pap. We be with ary movement going on in the world and has direct bearing - problems like to think that meeting them at least today. One is a revolution against growing out of the war. halfway in a. spirit of friendliness will war of conquest and subjugation; in Ruthlessness Not Compatible produce. a change; the thought gives : rec- this revolution through which civiliza- This is to say that If we cannot first great Internal comfort to some souls. eport tion is trying to enforce a law of peace- concentrate on the control or elimina- But It gives no solace to the hundreda new ful development among nations, Hitler tion of the types of mind which thrive of thousands of murdered and dying i that and Hirohito are on the throwback on becoming ruthless conquerors, we Poles, Jews, Greeks: and the rest of e are side-like their more remote ancestors can have no peace, those from whose blood the Nazi would Chek- they want no such regime. It seems fairly generally admitted purify the race of man while the Nazi the The other is a revolution which has among the rich and the poor alike, in himself pollutes the stream of the agea. agni- quilte incidental relation to the war, has labor circles, in Congress, in India and Too Much Loose Talk vriter been going on, and will continue, for a possibly even in the minds of many When we sublimate the lasue of con- n. the long time. This represents a. peace- Italians, that an Axis victory would not trol of conquest in a variety of fancied la of time social revolution which cuta across be a good thing, that it at least would the national boundaries of friend and excuses and palliatives for it, we "but the be the greater of two possible evils. It invite the indefinite postponement of and foe alika, Except in the form of con- appears, however, to be an unlovely the reign of peaceful order. There has His- tradictory promises, it has scarcely tendency in human nature to attempt been too much loose talk about the spor- touched Japan or Germany, though on to bargain in the face of danger for "mistakes of the last peace". with em- Arror its back Hitler at least is attempting some advantage which has no relation phasis on the wrong mistakes; the mis- y be- to ride to universal power. to that danger nor to the successful takes were that we did not take, and Pesceful Revolutions meeting of that danger. as evidenced in the loose clauses. Fif- se, a It is in terms of the revolution It is surprising how many unin- teen and Sixteen of the Covenant- the against war of conquest that we should formed cheerers apring up from out- never really Intended to take conquest his- express our war alma and our post- side at the sight of an India trying to by the throat. 1. If was policies. On the other hand, it is commit suicide before the Axis. by The peace we want will deal with the reeps under the heading of the social and waiting to bargain. That bargaining militant mind of conquest as & prob- look- economic revolution that we should may have something to do with the ulti- lem. Whatever eise is attained, peace ading group and can best understand what mate political development of India, must be established. This involves and we more properly should call peace- which obviously has been on the way power among the peace-loving nations volu- time programs of reform. Like Hitler, anyhow as fast as India can break with to perpetuate peace. We have been too reformers tend to setze the war as an her own self-imposed historical limita- with- easily turned aside by talk about per- 1 go occasion, when in truth their better tions and tyrannies. But It has nothing petuating the status quo, when In truth world has been on the way, and in any to do with the security of freedom find the quo has had very little status in the event should be and would be reach- throughout the world, which is the gradual political flux toward free ex- ere alth ing acceleration, war or no war. present paramount stake. latence. Almost any status would be In any improved world that we are It is these tendencies which have led better than the status pro-Nazi. For a likely to attain within a thousand years the best of us, perhaps unwittingly, to in long time the peace police power will the monater of ambition can still breed offer bribes beyond our performance as the necessarily rest with the United States, the monster of war. Unless, that is, we the price for present help. It is not that and the British Commonwealth, Ruasia and determine to do something about the the substance of these bribes la bad. China, Merely because It la power, it pe- primitive doctrine of subjugation itself, Oa the contrary, these attainable need not be any the less'a policing for ave the and the warmed-over savage instinct, visions are among the best hopes of peace. And it none the less can be which two together are the parents of mankind, and our mutual assurances of and fitted Into the formation of post-war and deliberate wars of conquest. At pres- cooperation and support in giving them organization not only for peace but for lan ent our sights need to be narrowed to actuality are not without value, general welfare. on, enable us to hit anything At. all To But we need to foresee that events Underlying and giving reality to this use & cruel figure, we are in danger of may not quickly bring full fruition to power for peace there must become on missing the white dove for trying at all these future hopea. In some cir- of conscious of their duty and might the the same time to get all the ducks. cumstances it may be the people them- apiritual forces of individuals in many The tendency of the day to combine selves who stand in their own way. Yet nations who see in law a spiritual qual- ot together in one peace bundle many is- If it should so turn out, we ought not sty, and in the support of a law of al sues which are not necessarily related therefore to lose the great present peace a high and real call of man's na- 30 causatively is due to a variety of con- prizes to be gained from victory in this ture. We resist this call for a time and by flicta of motive and interest: war-namely, another chance for free then eventa overtake us and force us to en 1. A natural desire completely to re- institutions, and an unshakable deter- be better than we Intended. In this ov design the future house now that the mination to be ready to meet conquest unexalted way exalted law may be 06 present one la burning. la the future before It starts at any born, as in this very hour it is gestal- ly 2, A semi-conácious giving and tak- point to endanger those Institutions. ing la the war of the world. è Ing. of bribes for present help, the IV would be Idle not to admit that More Problems event, should be and would be reach- throughout the world, which La the Hrs gradual political flux Loward free log acceleration, war or no war. present paramount stake. Mth istence. Almost any status would be In any Improved world that we are It is Chese tendencies which have led better than the status pro-Naxt. For a likely to attain within & thousand years the best of us, perhaps unwittingly, to long time the peace police power will the the monster of ambition can still breed offer bribes beyond our performance as necessarily rest with the United States, and the monster of war. Unless, that is, we the price for present help. It la not that the British Commonwealth, Russia and por determine to do something about the the substance of these bribes is bad. China Merely because = la power, it primitive doctrine of subjugation Itself, On the contrary, these attainable need not be any the less a policing for the and the warmed-over savage instinct, visions are among the best hopes of peace. And it none the less CAD be and which two together are the parents of mankind, and our mutual assurances of fitted Into the formation of post-war and deliberate ware of conquest. Al pres- cooperation and support la giving them organization not only for peace but for ent our aights need to be narrowed to actuality are not without value, general welfare. tan enable us to hit anything at all. To But we need to foresse that events on, Underlying and giving reality to this was use & cruel figure,in are in danger of may not quickly bring full Treltion to power for peace there must become missing the white dove for trying at all these future hopes, In some cir- of conscious of their duty and might the the same time to get all the ducks. cumstances it may be the people them- spiritual forces of individuals in many The tendency of the day to combine selves who stand in their own way. Yet nations who see in law a spiritual qual- Got together in one peace bundle many is- If it should so turn out, we ought not ity, and in the support of & law of 7 sues which are not necessarily related therefore to lose the great present peace & high and real call of man's na- se causatively is due to a variety of con- prises to be gained from victory in this ture. We reaist this call for a time and (oy flieta of motive and interest: war-namely, another chance for free then eventa overtake Us and force us to en 1. A natural desire completely to re- institutions, and an unshakable deter- be better than we intended. In this lov design the future house now that the mination to be ready to meet conquest unexalted way exalted law may be De present one is burning. in the future before it starts at any born, as in this very hour #: La gestal- 2. A semi-conscious giving and tak- point to endanger those Institutions. ing in the war of the world. ing of bribes for present help, in the It would be idle not to admit that More Problems F form of promises of future perfections, any condition which falls short of af- even though Axis victory in any event fording to human beings as reasonable There are other peace-from-war a living as their own self-imposed limi- problems. Upon them we should con- would be fatal to all other parties in- tations permit results in those human centrate our thought: the feeding of volved. in 3. An inclination to supply large- beings being susceptible to the wiles of the post-war starving, the rehabilita- hearted but erroneous economic ex- demagogues. Any promise will seem tion of the homeless, the repossession cuses for the \periodic outbursts of to hold out improvement, of stolen goods, the resettling of popu- lations, the treatment of those ob- Mars Germans Not Undernourished seased with inhuman tendencies, the 4. Failure to see the relation be- But who can possibly say that in re-education of Name youth, the no- tween, on the one hand, certain pro- any true sense the ruddy-faced German orientation of Japan, the problem of gressively was "static" phases of law of pre-1914, before he dug his own pit, the German military mind, the control , as a framework for peaceful social evo- represented an undernourished people? of economic penetration as an instru- lution and, on the other hand, the "dy- Who can properly say that the post- ment of war, the watch on new meth- namie". processes by which modern so- war German with most of his land in- oda of rearmament, encouragement to B clety can within-and only within- tact, who refurbished his cities and liberal factors in backward administra- that framework evolve certain social factories with outside money, corrupt- tions, the application to post-war in- and economic adjustments. ed his own currency, eut his actual ternational problems of suitable ele- An implied belief that since war reparation payments to less than one- ments of the United Nations machinery usually is made to appear to have a fifteenth of the fifty billion for re- of war collaboration, international or- basis la economic and social maladjust- armament he then willingly assumed ganization to give expression and ao- ments and therefore appears to be for- for another foray of world conquest, tuality to these matters, and arms and givable, we can erase war by being suf- bears the alightest resemblance to a an alliance for peace-a very special ficiently kind and abnegating, especial- noble but put-upon people? How can kind of alliance Indeed. ly to two men with small mustaches St. be said that the economic machina- The kind of peace we want, and the east and west of Suez. tions by which a coterie of German in- kind of world we can get, are not nec- 6. An unconsclous and specious hope dustrialista deliberately almed to fur- essarily coextensive nor immediately that for the moment we can escape ther the political conquest of the world coexistent. In both spheres we may making a. predelermined stand about by economic invasion of our industries, well hasten our aspirations. But with- the sharp international issue of aggres- not for mutual service, but for the out peace to the world man will loss sion; this, until again we find that the eabotage of our ability to hold our free- not only the riches of his flesh but conqueror is at the gates somebody dom-bow can this be truthfully repre- himself as well. With peace man can in else, while again we debate whether to sented as the effort of a people so begin the age of his greatest glory. do anything about it until we wake up impoverished that the only way out LEONARD W. CRONKHITE. one morning to find him at another was wars of conquest? ter Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1942. ris gate namely, our own. How long shall we be deluded by Rd- Better Houses shoutings-not by Nazis alone-against BOY ON THE PASTURE GATE Improved houses often come out of a now fading imperialism when their far fires. The closet that Mary found in- alms are an enalavement imperialism yin Dream wisely, boy, of Chose strange convenient can be made better in the of the whole world? How much longer years to come; po next new house the kitchen that will our kindly people believe Junker While you are counting time's slow had mother abhorred will be made right: and Nazi alike, while he howls about pendulum, none of the inconveniences about which the "inaccessibility of raw materials," Tether your dreams to earth, and turn AS materials which he says he la denied. the head of the family used to complain your eyes when at the very same moment in or- will occur in the next building. To hear Away from distant and seductive sides, der to build up for this war, he laid the the discussion, the neighbors almost What city boy has ever felt the thrill are led to conclude that it was the about in every direction to buy, and on, freely did buy, years ahead of supply Or hiding in long fields of grain, 80 as flaws in the old house which caused still from all of us-Aritish, American and of the fire. When in truth, as events later from others-at whose throate he That tiny creatures anchored to a z prove, ft was a plain case of arson. blade almed to stick the very bayonets he a And DO matter how splendid the new forged from those self-same "inaccessi- Inspect him curiously, yet unafraid? house, If something is not done about ble" materials? For these doings, Store in your memory the brimming = arson as arson, quite likely the new chapter and verse can be cited and laugh = house will some time go the same way. they are not to be gainsaid. Of gladness at & wabbly new-born calf; di Some people, however, say: "Let us It is an easy belief that social prog- Cherish the fun of cupping in your e improve all houses, and presto! we will ress comes primarily through the chal- hand E have no more arson." lenges of the violent. It has, of course, A baby rabbit cradied in the land. But the lack of improved houses had more than once been true-before the little to do with causing this war- Dream wisely, boy, and build your ballot and constitutional government castles near witness nearly any pre-1914 German existed or when they were but & sham home, The rich, brown soil. Keep your heart -that progress has been brought about The statement by the Vice President channels clear, by violence. The centuries, however, of what a free world involves, in con- That Wisdom may, in 'aver-changing are expected gradually to supplant vio- cern for the general welfare, is an ad- stream, lence with pacific struggle. From era mirable statement of the inherent Replenish the sweet wonder of your to era new legal shapes for the funnel dream. nature of freedom and of the proper of progress are enacted. Through these BLANCHE STEWART. OUR LIFE 1943 EE GLASSER runs the hardware store in our town. Lee is L a girl - tall, competent, taciturn. I went in the other Here's a forecast: Some of it bad, some day looking for a cértain aluminum gadget, and Lee shook her head. good-but all of it based on the hard "No more of those," she said. I said was, too, bad, facts of what we must do to win the war "What's too bad about it? she snapped. have three brothers in uniform and another going, and I guess they need the aluminum worse than you do." It shamed me. Somewhat lamely I parried, "But what's by Don Eddy going to happen to your business if you can't get things to sell?" She shook back her hair. "I'll get things to sell,", she said, Some things they see ahead are not pretty. But when you the age of 16, subject to conscription for wartime work. You confidently. "I'll get along all right." blow away the smoke, you begin to take heart. For these, I could be drafted, just as men are drafted for military service. Frank Barnes is a barber in an Ohio town. Stuck between believe, are as true as any prophecies it is possible to make Once you prove adept in a war job, you are apt to be trains, I dropped in for a haircut. We got to talking about for 1943: "frozen" there for the duration Workers in L' EE GLASSER runs the hardware store in our town. Lee is a girl - tall, competent, taciturn. I went in the other day looking for a cértain aluminum gadget, and Lee Here's a forecast: Some of it bad, some shook her head. "No more of those," she said. good - but all of it based on the hard I said it was too bad. "What's too bad about it? she snapped. have three facts of what we must do to win the war brothers in uniform and another going, and I guess they need the aluminum worse than you do." It shamed me. Somewhat lamely I parried, "But what's by Don Eddy going to happen to your business if you can't gét things to sell?" She shook back her hair. "I'll get things to sell," she said, Some things they see ahead are not pretty. But when you the age of 16; subject to conscription for wartime work. You confidently. "I'll get along all right." blow away the smoke, you begin to take heart. For these, I could be drafted, just as men are drafted for military service. Frank Barnes is a barber in an Ohio town. Stuck between believe, are as true as any prophecies it is possible to make Once you prove adept in a war job, you are apt to be trains, I dropped in for a haircut. We got to talking about for 1943: "frozen" there for the duration. Workers in many lines already income taxes, and I said that a lot of us were going to have No American is going to suffer from hunger or cold. We'll are forbidden to change jobs without permission, and this a tough time meeting the ante this next year. have sufficient food, homes, heat and clothing. practice will be widely extended. You may work more than Frank just laughed. "It doesn't worry me," he said. "After Americans won't go broke unless they refuse to work, and 40 hours a week before starting overtime, but probably not all, I can only eat so much. I only need one roof, and one bed, it may be hard to do even that. Severe adjustments are ahead longer than 48. and decent clothes. Beyond that, the gov'ment can take for many small businessmen and employees of nonessential If you don't go to work in war Industry, you may be everything I've got, and welcome. The main thing is to businesses, and for those who cannot adapt themselves to war expected to help on a farm next summer. The shortage win the war." work. But for the physically and mentally fit, there will be of farm labor In 1943 will be crucial. A land army will That's America talking - America, 1943. jobs, at good pay. have to be recruited by some means, largely from The main thing is to win the war. Let the ment' No American is going to be taxed to death. Taxes will be among city people. take everything it needs to do the job. We'll get along all right. higher, but they'll leave enough for necessities and a few Women will have to come out of the kitchen. About 2,000,000 That's what they're saying in the grass roots, and it makes luxuries. are in war production now; at least 5,000,000 more will have your insides tingle with pride. It's pretty fine, this tough, If we drive carefully, and protect our tires, most of us will to start work by the end of 1943. hard, confident, new wartime America. keep our automobiles and keep them running. Shortage of workers is the most serious situation facing The funny thing is, we will get along all right. It lsn't We'll be able to travél for essential purposes but not for America today. What's the answer? Find people who never going to be so bad this next year. Sure, we'll sacrifice pleasure. We'll have electricity, movies, radio and beer. We'll worked with their hands before! Maybe that means you. plenty - if you want to call it that. We'll sacrifice, and even have gadgets. They'll be made of synthetics and non- we'll win the war, and a few years from now we'll have essential metals, but they'll work just as well. YOUR INCOME. By and large, wages and salaries will be to think hard to remember what it was we sacrificed. No, it isn't going to be so bad. We'll get along all right. fairly static during 1943. If there are changes they are more I've been in Washington trying to get a picture of what And now that we know the best general picture, let's likely to be up than down. 1943 holds in store for you and me. It isn't easy. I talked with examine the details. Let's see what things are in the minds of What about the "freezing" of wages and salaries? Will that such men as James F. Byrnes, director of Economic Stabiliza- the men and women who are running the war - and us stop you from getting a raise? Not necessarily. Increases in tion; Donald M. Nelson, chief of the War Production Board: pay will be granted to "correct maladjustments or inequalities, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Petroleum YOUR JOB. It is entirely possible that you will have to to eliminate substandards of living, to correct gross inequities, Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes; Secretary of Agriculture Claude change your job. Thirteen and a half million more individuals or to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.". Also, in- R. Wickard: Leon Henderson, the boss rationeer; Paul V. will have to be in essential war work by the end of 1943, and creases can be granted for "Individual promotions or reclas- McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission: you're apt to be one of them. You'll want to be, for nonessen- sifications, individual merit, or increased productivity." That Transportation Chief Joseph B. Eastman; Rubber Crar. Wil- tial workers won't be popular. seems to put it strictly up to you. liam M. Jeffers; Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, director Unless you make the change voluntarily, Uncle Sam may of Selective Service, and others - scores of others. I talked do it for you. A strong Washington faction has been trying YOUR CHANCE OF BEING DRAFTED. If you are under with hard-boiled, far-seeing Washington correspondents, with since midsummer to get Congress to pass a National Service 45, single and sound, and have been passed over because you anybody and everybody who could shed light on the future. Act which would make everybody, male and female, above hold a so-called "key" job, you'll probably be taking orders THIS WEEK Magasine Section happen to you? Well, ask yourself whether your business is Men will continue cuffless, and vests may be ruled out, but a commodity or a luxury. If it is a luxury, lock it up for the who cares? Gloves will be scarcer, but you can have your duration. But if it is a commodity business, take heart. Help coat pockets extra deep. may be coming. There's considerable fog about shoes. One group says they Behind the scenes, Congress is trying to evolve a law intend- be scarce and rationed; another group says it isn't so. My ed to save the little businessmen in essential lines. Something personal guess is that all shoes will be rationed before the is reasonably sure to come of all the talk, possibly-by late end of 1943. But before that happens, the thousands of present spring, styles will be drastically reduced. If rationing starts, you may Meantime, there are other things you can do. One of be required to turn in your worn-out shoes when buying a new the best is to emphasize service. Things are going to pair. Don't count on that; it's just a guess. get broken, and they have to be fixed. Why not be the Hats, socks, underwear, shirts, girdles, brassieres, slips - fixer? all the essential garments will be normally abundant and You can look into the substitute products. For many items reasonably priced. You may not get the precise material you that have disappeared through priorities, duplicates are com- want, but you'll get something that will fill the bill. ing along in nonessential materials. Perhaps it will take dig-¹ By and large, you'll be able to dress just as modishly at the ging to find them, persuasion to sell them. So what? You end of 1943 as you do now, and at no material increase in cost. didn't build that business by sucking your thumb, did you? If you can't get clerks, start self-service. If you can't make YOUR TRANSPORTATION. The belief everywhere in deliveries, make jokes and let the customers carry their own. Washington is that civilian automobiles must be kept run- ning. We won't have gasoline for frivolity, but we'll have YOUR TAXES. More than 7,000,000 people are going to enough for the necessities of travel. Don't try to fool your pay income taxes in 1943 for the first time. Those taxes will ration board about necessity, though, because they smack be higher than we ever paid before - but lower than people you down! are paying in most of our allied nations. Taxes will be higher The first synthetic tires are coming out of the factories, because this year we have spent the equivalent of $600 for and they are good. The Army is taking them now, and it's every man, woman and child in the United States - on the very doubtful if you will be able. to buy these before the war alone. end of 1943. Meanwhile Grade III War Tires, made from How much income tax will you have to pay? Here's the reclaimed rubber, are now being produced. You can get those, official dope. The first column represents net income before if you can prove you need them. And they'll last you 5,000 to personal exemption The second column is the tax for a single 10,000 miles if you hold your speed under 35 miles. person with no dependents. The third column is the tax for a There is no real shortage of gasoline; there is a severe married person with no dependents. The fourth column is the shortage of carriers to transport it. Ocean tankers used to tax for a married person with two dependents. This will give carry 95 per cent of it to the East: now, 70,000 tank cars are you an ideá: burning up the rails trying to do the job, and not quite accom- $1,000 $ 89 $ 00 $ 00 plishing it. What's the answer? Pipe lines, of course. We're 2,000 273 140 13 building a 24-inch line from Texas to New York. When it is 3,000 472 324 191 finished next summer, the gasoline shortage will be materially 4,000 686 532 378 relieved. SWING These figures do not include the Victory Tax, which, starting Meantime, treat gas with care - and don't step on it! next Friday, will nip five-per cent off all salaries over $624. Judges are going to throw the book at speeders in 1943. from a top sergeant any moment now, Employers will find it New tax legislation is sure in 1943. One faction is plugging Rail transportation is apt to go on a priority basis by mid: increasingly difficult to hold single men of military age, no for a sales tax on everything you buy - and they may win. year, maybe sooner. You will be asked why you want to travel: matter how irreplaceable they may be. Another faction wants a compulsory savings plan, with savings you may have to fill out a form to buy a ticket. If your story Childless married men are already being drafted in some deducted from pay checks; they may win, too. And there is tis good, you get the ticket; if it Isn't, you don't. Travel ration- localities, and all others may expect to be examined early strong pressure for a plan to deduct all income taxes from Ing isn't definite, but it is in the wind. in 1943. Those classed-as eligible will be inducted rapidly pay checks. so that you will pay as you earn and not have à -Large numbers of married men will be in the Army before whopping tax bill staring you in the face the following March. GENERAL FORECASTS. The draft of the teen-agers is the year's end. Don't be surprised if that goes through early in the year - expected to revolutionize school curriculums. Educators are The Selective Service System has laid down hard-and-fast but not early enough to stave off the jolt March 15. Whatever making plans to train youngsters for war and war work rules. They call for inductions in this order: 1/ The teen new, laws may be written, you'll have to pay the tax on 1942 New York City high schools switched over last fall, tossing agers and all remaining single men. 2. Childless married men earnings in the usual way during 1943. fripperies out the window and concentrating on mathematics not working in one of the 34 essential industries. 3. Childless and manual arts. Schools elsewhere will follow suit. Many married men working in one of the essential industries, but YOUR FOOD: You'll have all you need - though it may email colleges will close for the duration at the end of this who are not completely irreplaceable. 4. Married men with not be the kind you' been used to. For the whole dope, sce semester; larger colleges and fancy-name preparatory schools dependent children. Clementine Paddleford's article, "What You'll Eat Next will either cut out vacations and cram their courses into three The first group will be exhausted by the middle of this Year," in this same issue. years, or become military-training schools exclusively. $1,000 $ 89 $ 00 $ 00 plishing it. What's the answer? Pipé lines, of course. We're 2,000 273 140 13 building a 24-inch line from Texas to New York. When it is 3,000 472 324 191 finished next summer, the gasoline shortage will be materially 4,000 686 532 378 relieved. These figures do not include the Victory Tax, which, starting Meantime, treat gas with care and don't step on it! next Friday, will nip five per cent off all salaries over $624. Judges are going to throw the book at speeders in 1943. from a top sergeant any moment now. Employers will find it New tax legislation is sure in 1943. One faction is plugging Rail transportation is apt to go on a priority basis by mid³ increasingly difficult to hold single men of military age, no for a sales tax on everything you buy - and they may win. year, maybe sooner. You will be asked why you want to travel; matter how irreplaceable they may be. Another faction wants a compulsory savings plan, with savings you may have to fill out a form to buy a ticket. If your story Childless married men are already being drafted in some deducted from pay checks; they may win, too. And there is bis good, you get the ticket; if it isn't, you don't. Travel ration- localities, and all others may expect to be examined early strong pressure for a plan to deduct all income taxes from ing isn't definite, but it is in the wind. in 1943. Those classed as eligible will be inducted rapidly pay checks, so that you will pay as you earn and not have a Large numbers of married men will be in the Army before whopping tax bill staring you in the face the following March GENERAL FORECASTS. The draft of the teen-agers is the year's end. Don't be surprised if that goes through early in the year - expected to revolutionize school curriculums. Educators are The Selective Service System has laid down hard-and-fast but not early enough to stave off the jolt March 15. Whatever making plans to train youngsters for war and war work rules. They call for inductions in this order: 1. The teen- new laws may be written, you'll have to pay the tax on 1942 New York City high schools switched over last fall, tossing agers and all remaining single men. 2. Childless married men earnings in the usual way during 1943. fripperies out the window and concentrating on mathematics' not working in one of the 34 essential industries. 3. Childless and manual arts. Schools elsewhere will follow suit. Many married men working in one of the essential industries, but YOUR FOODS You'll have all you need - though it may small colleges will close for the duration at the end of this who are not completely irreplaceable. 4. Married men with not be the kind you've been used to. For the whole dope, see semester; larger colleges and fancy-name preparatory schools dependent children. Clementine Paddleford's article, "What You'll Eat Next will either cut out vacations and cram their courses into three The first group will be exhausted by the middle of this Year," in this same issue. years, or become military-training schools exclusively. winter, at which time induction of the second group will begin. Rugs will get scarcer. So will draperies, all-woolen The third' group will be called by midsummer. Nobody in YOUR CLOTHES. Early in the war it looked like we would blankets, bed and table linen. New furniture, too, and Washington, so far, expects that the fourth group will be called. have a shortage of wool, but that was before we started candy and cosmetics. You may not get fancy cooking sending mammoth convoys to Australia. Now those ships go ranges and heating stoves, but "Victory" models will YOUR BUSINESS. You've worked hard all your life to build down loaded with munitions and come home loaded with be plentiful. up a little one-horse business, and now you see it shaking like wool. We'll have enough for everybody. Mechanical refrigerators will go the way of typewriters, a hula dancer. You can't get your regular merchandise. Your True, our stocks of, cloth will have to be used wisely. Women but the iceman will be working overtime. Production of help is leaving. You can't make deliveries. What's going to will find fewer styles in ready-made coats, suits and dresses. 300,000 iceboxes has been okayed. Banned for the duration are washing machines and ironers, electrical appliances, ranges and fans, golf clubs and balls, lawn mowers, metal HOW THE WAR CHANGES OUR WAY OF LIFE household furniture, musical instruments, outboard motors, radios, toys, vacuum cleaners and juke boxes. There will be more babies but fewer baby buggies. Also 250 250 253 fewer bicycles, coal stokers, hot-water heaters, hairpins and bobbie pins, electric-light bulbs, jewelry, kitchen and house- 200 200 hold utensils, razors, blades, sewing machines and a number of other items. 162 The present price-control system, with ceiling prices based 150 143 150 on March, 1942, is likely to be junked before midyear, to be replaced with a specific dollar-and-cent ceiling for each item. Government inspectors will be numerous, and any dealer who 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 93 100 tries to chisel will find himself behind the eight-ball. Moral: 78 Whether you're buying or selling, don't cheat. M II 50 50 That's the picture of what life is going to be like for all of 25 us next year. We're going to have to make sacrifices - sure. But they're for the best cause in the world - and worth o 0 making 1940 1943 1940 1943 1940 1943 1940 1943 1940 1943 1940 1943 As Lse Glasser told me in her hardware store, "We'll get EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL FOOD PRODUCTS CLOTHING AUTOS, REFRIGERATORS TAXES along all right!" INCOME FOR CIVILIANS FOR CIVILIANS ETC., FOR CIVILIANS PICTOGRAPH CORPORATION The End December 27, 1942 THIS Magasine Section 5