New Orleans, La.
BRITISH AWARE OF CONGRESS
Although the average Britisher
will be amazed II FDR is not elected
to a fourth term, recent weeks have
seen the British press and public far
more aware of the possibility of Re
publican victory.
When Governor Dewey began his
recent speaking tour, he rated about
one paragraph per speech in most
London papers, with an editorial
tending to deprecate the GOP stand
ard-bearer. Enthusiastic Republican
Representative Karl Mundt of South
Dakota remarked that when he ar
rived in London, early in Septem
ber, he needed a magnifying glass
to find any reference to Dewey?al
ways referred to by the British as
"Governor Tom Dewey."
However, the challenger's space in
Ithe London press gradually in
creased during September, culminat
ling in double-column headlines on
'the front pages the night after his
.Oklahoma City speech.
Chatting one day with a member
<of the British House of Commons,
'Congressman Mundt was asked
isbout Dewey's chances. He replied
that he thought they were excellent
and that Dewey might very well go
into the White House next year. The
member of parliament, off guard,
'answered: "What a pity."
Mundt mentioned the incident
later to Churchill's minister of in
iformation, Brendan Bracken, who
apologized:
"1 thought we had them better
trained than that."
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PARLIAMENT NOTICES
CONGRESS
An important result of the U. S.
political uncertainty is the deter
mination on the part of the British
government to work with this coun
try on the legislative as well as the
executive level. The British are be
coming more and more aware of
the importance of the American con
gress, admit they should never have
overlooked it after they saw the
trouncing Wilson got after the last
armistice.
While observing the British Parli
ament, Mundt heard a speech by
Lord Braithwaite, author of a re
cent bill inviting American con
gressmen to England as official
guests, call for much closer rela
tions between parliament and con
gress.
"Our international friendship,"
?aid Lord Braithwaite, "cannot be
permitted to depend on the slender
reed of affection between two indi
viduals separated by a mighty
ocean."
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GOOD NEIGHBORS
PROVIDE COFFEE
The backstage story In regard to
the near threat of coffee rationing
Is that the Good Neighbor policy
paid dividends last month. Brazil
Ian friendship enabled us to avert
cither coffee rationing or a coffee
rise in price. The American house
wife will be in $18,000,000 between
now and Christmas because of the
Good Neighbor policy.
U. S. retail coffee prices here have
been frozen since December, 1941,
but the cost of producing coffee in
Brazil, Colombia, Salvador and
Venezuela has not. Growers there
have been clamoring for higher
prices.
The governments of these four
countries have been under constant
pressure from powerful coffee inter
ests to get better prices in the
United States. In general, the grow
ers of Venezuela, Colombia and Sal
vador have had partial support from
their governments, but the Brazilian
government has refused to press for
higher prices.
As a result, growers have been
tapering off in their acceptance
of orders from the U. S. A.
Gambling on an early end of the
<war, they decided to build up
jstocks for immediate sale to Eng
land, Sweden, - France and Spain.
.(Coffee will keep in the bean for as
long as five to ten years.)
This refusal of growers to accept
aiew orders led the War Food Ad
zninistration to recommend ration
ing to OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles last summer. Bowles op
posed rationing then, though agree
Sag with WFA Boas Marvin Jonas
that we ahould not raiee the price
of coffee.
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l.tee.tw BAGS A MONTH
When brilliant Brazilian minister
of finance, Souza Closta, was in
Washington last July, he guaran
teed us a minimum of 1,000,000 bags
of Brazilian coffee for each of the
four months from September
through December. Costa promised
extra large shipments from Brazil,
risking the extreme anger of Brazil
ian growers in the Interest of U. S.
(friendship.
Meanwhile, the administration
found itself unable to buy coffee for
delivery even next year. The Brazil
ian guarantee is only for the re
mainder of this year, and the Ameri
can people drink more than 1,000,
1000 bags a month, it has been point
ed out.
It eras at this point that Marvin
Jones and Chester Bowles went
|to assistant Pres. Jimmy Byrnes
with their problem. Byrnes advised
immediate rationing. He knew that
lbs threat of renewed rationing
^?M ^?"se^plePty of worry among
Truce Clears Battleground of Civilians
When Dunkirk became the center of operations, Allies and Germans agreed to a trace in order that
civilians could leave the city. Views showing them leaving are typical of other cities along the ronte of
the advancing Tanks. Allied headquarters say that the Dunkirk truce plan may not be followed in all other
cities. Individual commanders will deetde In the future.
Holland in Ruins as War Rages Toward Berlin
Typical of moat Holland cltiea, Nejmegen, hit by German and Allied bombardment and shelling, shows
the effect of the war upon that country. American soldiers aid in cleaning up the city as well as take care
of snipers left behind by the retreating Nasis. Cooperation of organised Holland underground has made it pos
sible for Allied troops to advance rapidly. Nothing remains standing in wake of Nasi retreat.
Coastguardsmen Cast Ballots
Coastgaardsmea at a replacement pool la the Sooth Paeile exer
cise their right to rote ahai with mllltoai of American cerricemea
all over the world. These men are awaitinc aew assignments to coast
gaard lighting ships la the Pacihe and will wia back the Philippines
and carry l|kth| troops la Japan. Early reports indicate esaitdersVs
interest on the part of oversea veterans, with iiasiderahle soldier, sailer
and marine tadividaal campaigners at work.
No Place Like Our Old Home
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Aachen Given Terms
Lieut. William Boehmo, New tort
City, with another officer and a pri
vate carried the anrreader terms to
the besieged Nad garrison at
Aachen, Germany. Boehma waa
chosen heeanse at Us German
American parentage and knowledge
at German.
Snite Goes South
Frederick Suite, the "boiler kid."
showa in bis iron loaf, with his
daafbter, Terese Marie, a year a ad
three months old, as he left his
Chicago home for the winter ia
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PRIVATE PURKEY WORRIES
ABOUT RECONVERSION
Dear Ed: WeU, I am pretty tide
up in the Eurprean war, but I get
a couple of minutes now and then to
think about my reconvertion plans.
Reconverting me from the job of a
foreign demonstrator for the arsenal
of democracy back to a local filling
station attendant is not going to be
easy.
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Two years in a global fracas like
this make a man a new model. He
gets to be a hard boiled, quick tem
pered guy with a hide like a ella
phunt, a disposition like a gorilla
and a very itchy finger on a gun.
Take me. I got all geared up for
destruction and it is not going to be
no cinch making me over for peace^
ful persuits.
?
Sometimes I wonder how long
it will take to reconvert me so
I will not want to end all argu
ments with a bazooka. Before
the war I was a fine sample of
a peaceful American. In my gas
station job I was polite, I never
got quarrelsome with nobody
and was even teaehed to turn
the other cheek. But in the war
I got made over into a rough
and tnmble Dick Tracy fight
ing on a 24-hour basis and
never remembering nothing
about good manners.
?
As soon as the ump blows the
whistle on this war me and the boys
has got to get ourselves all retooled,
regeared and reflnished so we get
fighting out of our systems and go
all day without shooting nobody. We
got to be able to come on strangers
all of a sudden and not fire at 'em
first. We got to get used to ordering
breakfast, and sleeping late morn
ings.
?
I serpose when I get back to
the gas station job I will not
pay no attention to orders at
first unless they is yelled at me
in a rough voice and I guess the
boss better wear stripes on his
coat for a time. Also I will not
be able to look at a hill, a moun
tain or a beach no place without
feeling I got to take it. Every
time I see a bridge I win want
to blow it up from habit.
?
Just being back at the pumping
station with no iron" hat on and with
out a ton of equiperment on my
back will seem funny in. the first
stages of my reconvention and I
gess maybe the boss should make it
easy by letting me strap a couple
of tires Bnd 40 pounds of auto sup
plies on me for a while.
?
Reconverting myself to soft beds,
light shoes and no k. p. duty is a
big job, and I will need the help of
Mr. Byrnes and Bamey Hf^ruch all
right. But the big reconvention task
will be to get my stommick back on
a basis where it can stand eggs that
ain't never been took out of no cans.
?
Well I sure got a problem but
I am giving it plenty of thought
and I hope for the best.
Tours as always,
OSCAR
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RECONVERSION WORRIES
A Volunteer Shop Worker:
Oh, reconversion frightens me,
I fear the sudden step
That reconverts me to a girl
Who ends the day with pep;
That finds no wrenches in my hands
And not a clock to punch?
And makes me throw away those
slacks
And take my time at lunch)
To have my nails look right again,
To wear once more a skirt.
To lack a pay check every week?
Ah, that, I fear, will hurt!
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A Housewife:
How will I reconvert myself
From harassed, fretful days
And worries over ration points
And all those OPAs?
From living everything by points.
Not knowing where I'm at
To entering the butcher shop
And saying "Gimme THATI"I!I
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A Husband:
Oh, speed the reconversion days!
To war my wife did go;
And I've been keeping up the house
(or very nearly so);
Of drug-store food I'm pretty sick.
My stomach's on the bum;
The kitchen sink is full of plates,
I'm feeling extra glum;
So send the Missus home to me,
Without her life's a blur;
From everything in this damned
war
I'll reconvert to HER.
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TOO HOO, MR. HULL!
Sumner Welles, former assistant
secretary of state, is the latest
United States ex-official to accept a
'job as a radio commentator. He
will be sponsored by a watch com
pany. The author of "Time for Dis
cussion" has made a decision for
"time."
These GI Joes may put a chain oa
the watch ea the Rhine.
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RiUiMd by Wutora N?wsp?p?r Union.
STATE SOCIALISM
FOB UNITED STATES?
CANADA IS VERY DEFINITELY
HEADED for state socialism, wfaicb
is but a slightly modified form of
communism. As a means of captur
ing the farm vote the Canadian com
munism will not, for the present, in
clude a socialization of the small,
one family, farms. It will include
government ownership and operation
of all transportation and other utili
ties, all industrial manufacturing
and a strict regulation of merchan
dising.
Sometime between now and next
March 25, Mackenzie King, the Cana
dian prime minister, must call for
an election of members of the Cana
dian parliament. That new parlia
ment will select a prime minister
and fix the policies of the govern
ment There seems hardly a chance
of preventing the socialists from se
curing a majority in that new parlia
ment. They are led by M. J. Cald
well, a theoretical school teacher
and labor agitator, who has captured
the imagination of the workers and
small farmers of the Dominion, and
he has carried the recent elections
in contests for seats in provincial
parliaments.
Are we headed in the same direc
tion as is Canada? It looks as though
we may be. We have not, as yet,
given a definite name to the "ism"
for which we are seemingly head
ing. Some call it "New Dealism,"
though the President has asked us
to forget that name.
That we have a start on the road
to some form of state socialism is
evident from a few facts: The fed
eral government today owns more
than one fifth of the industrial capac
ity of the nation, with an invest
ment of considerably more than 20
billions of dollars; the government
owns nearly one fourth of all the
arable land in the nation; the gov
ernment owns an interest in, and
has a voice in the management of,
a large number of banks; the gov
ernment is operating well over 60
business corporations, financed with
government money and competing
with private business; through OP A,
WPB and WLB the government con
trols industry, merchandising and la
bor.
Under such conditions it is but a
step from what 1s left of the Ameri
can free enterprise system to that
form of communism Canada calls
state socialism.
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POLITICIANS MOST WORK
TO BE SUCCESSFUL
MORE POLITICIANS, both men
and women, are willing to aid the
cause of their party by talk than
by work. They will make speeches
but they will not ring doorbells,
though ringing doorbells produces
more votes than speeches when elec
tion day comes around.
Jim Farley was rated as a suc
cessful politician, but his success
was due more to work than to talk.
I was sitting in his private office one
day, during the '3d campaign, when
the receptionist announced a caller.
Jim instructed her to have the
visitor wait for two or three min
ute, and suggested that I remain.
He called for the card on that man.
It was one of half a million, but so
filed it took only a moment to locate
it. The last entry on that card noted
the recent birth of a son. After
glancing at the card Jim told the
receptionist to send the visitor in,
and met him with extended hand at
the door.
"The man I wanted most to see,"
said Jim to his visitor, "but first
tell me about that boy."
No number of speeches could have
changed that man's vote. He was
for any one Jim Farley proposed as
a candidate. The half a million
of those personal cards meant work
in compiling and keeping them up
to date, but it was work that paid
dividends in votes.
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AMERICA ITSELF
ON ELECTION DAT
WHEN WE VOTE do we perform
that duty of citizenship as members
of a labor union, a farm organiza
tion, a corporation director or stock
holder, a Methodist or Baptist or
Catholic or Lutheran? Do we vote
as a Jew or gentile, a German, or
Italian, or Russian, or English or
French? Do we vote as anything
other than as an American? Unless
our Americanism comes first, un
less we are willing to vote for the
best interests, as each of us see
those interests, of a majority of all
of us, we can say farewell to our
Republic. That America is the first
interest of its citizens is the founda
tion on which the Republic Is built.
Minority rule has no place in a Re
public.
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SHOULD THE RECONVERSION
and demobilization plans not work
out as it is hoped they may, should
there be a delay in converting to
peace-time production, resulting in
j unemployment and bread lines, there
is one element In our population that
will not be found in the lines of the
hungry. That is the farmers. They
will have food for themselves and
their families; they will have shel
ter, and the wood lot will provide
heat. That is what the farm way of
jife^Insures, and it to a valuable
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