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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 104:1
DESERTERS, WHAT ELSE?
The head of the American Legion, in addressing labor
leaders, said that a man who lays down his tools on a war job
to strike is just as guilty of an act of treason as a soldier who
deserts his post of duty.
Labor leaders bitterly assailed this viewpoint, but their
arguments are unconvincing. Morally, it is no less treasona
ble for a man to throw down his tools which provide a soldier
with equipment to tight than it is for the soldier to throw
down his weapons and ret use to tight.
'Strikes cannot justify desertion of war jobs In leaving
their posts, they are -traitors to a common cause. eVen though
they enjoy immunity from punishment such as would be meted
out to a soldier who deserts.
PLANNING THAT COUNTS
All the postwar planning in the world will collapse unless
it can be financed by the people. That is why* it is important
for our people and our government to work out plans lot
private employment when the war-spending letdown inevitably
Recognizing these facts, and knowing that distribution
will play an indispensable part in the reconversion period,
chain store executives, in order to give manufacturers some
thing concrete upon which to base their postwar plans, ate
studying how to place orders at once for a large variety of
staple items which they formerly sold in quantities and which
they know they will be able to sell again. If every business
and industry would plan in this manner, it would assure an
orderly change to peacetime production and employment.
Chain Store Age says that large scale buyers take the
attitude that “no matter what new products or new producers
the postwar period brings, the pent up demand for merchan
dise which was in general use before the war stopped its fur
ther production, will be great enough to absorb all the manu
facturers can produce for many months, if not years, after
they go into production on the old familiar models.
SHIPS FOR FARMERS
To af lamer located miles from any seacosat, who has no
difficulty in finding a market for his produce, it might seem a
matter Very little whether our nation does not have a
big shipping industry after the war.
But actually the future prosperity of our whole farm pop
ulation is probably on the activity of our postwar merchant
marine. Today, our faremrs are breaking production records
each year. Because of Lend-Lease and the demands of
our armed forces the supply of food is still not great enough
to meet the demand.
But after the war. when our farmers will have all sorts of
new machinery available and will be able to make this year’s
production look like nothing at all. the only way they' will be
able to profit by sue!, production will be to have a bigger world
market than ever before. ,
If we have ships to carry farm produce to all parts of the
world the farmer is apt to enjoy a scale of living undreamed
of in the past. But if we didn’t have the ships — and are
forced to depend on a domestic market—the farmer’s pros
pect of a golden age will vanish into thin air.
TAX JITTERS
Congressmen would all he much happier if they didn’t
have to do anyth.ng about a new tax bill this year. For
any new taxes which they pass will apply in 1944—and 1944
as we all know, is a major election year.
But since it is lairly well agreed that more taxes are
necessary to stave off inflation, the big question is what new
taxes would be least destructive to votes.
The treasury department, after admitting that four-fifths
of our national income now goes to people earning less than
$5,000 a year, offered a plan for putting most of the addition
al taxes on the other fifth. That might be considered smart
politics—since the votes of the one-tifth are of minor impor
tance—but even congress couldn’t quite agree to an approach
so totally lacking in subtlety.
A national sales tax—under which people would be taxed
according to the amount of goods they purchase—was offered
as a means of fairly distributing new taxation, but the labor
leaders have made it clear that they will demand higher wages
sulicient to pay the extra tax, if such a plan is adopted.
Of course, congress could pass a sales tax and, along with
it, pass legislation to prevent wage increases and to forbid
strikes for higher wages, but that would prov’e disastrous on
election day.
The only solution we can see, which would he agreeablejto
all congressmen, is to tax babies, aliens and convicts who are
not allowed to vote anyway.
—Buy War Saving* Bondi
WASHINGTON. D. C.(NWNIS)
—From what little information
is released about it. the three
power conference in Russia seem
to be doing' a great deal toward
cementing relations between Rus
sia, Great Britain and the Uni
ted States. But there is little
doubt that the Russians feel they
have played the lead role in the
war so far and will want the
head place at the peace table
unless we do considerably more
than we have lone so far.
While the talks in Russia were
proceeding, government officials
here realized that Russians were
following news front this coun
try with greater interest than
usual—and there was therefore
considerable embarrassment ;here
over the senate’s delay in agree
ing to commit this nation to “join
with free and sovereign nations in
the establishment and mainten
ance of international authority,
with power to prevent aggres
sion.’’ It was realized by all at
the Russian conference that the
I statements of our conferees on
I postwar arrangements were rath
er meaningless until the senate
hail clearlv stated how far this
country wouid go in sharing in-,
ternational responsibilities.
It was also embarrassing to
Washington officials and our con
ferees in Russia, when discussi
ons of new fronts and increased
supplies were being carried on,
for the news in our country to
be centered on new strikes and
threats of strikes tn essential in
dustries.
Although the 350,000 railroad
employees w-ho are seeking high
er wages are doing so in an or
derly fashion, the possibility if
a paralysis of wartime transpor
tation unless these demands are"
met is frightening to contemplate
Even a short tie-up of the rail
roads could interrupt the steady
flow of vital supplies to our sol
diers at the front, it could stop
production at thousands of war
soldiers and civilians in our own
plants and it could seriously inter
fere with the food supply of both
country.__
Almost equally dangerous
would be any major interruption
in the production of Joal, which
has been threatened ev'er since
the government turned the mines
back to private operators. Even
without coal strikes there will
be a real shortage of coal this
winter, but any further major
stoppage in production would be
a catastrophe. Thousands of tons
of coal were lost to war produc
tion factories by the strikes in
Alabama. Viewing this and oth
er threats of coal strikes as ev
en more dangerous than the
strikes last spring, Charles E.
Wilson, acting chairman of the
War Production Board said:
‘tSurely no American wants to
see our steel plants closed down
for lack of coal or wants to see
our shipyards idle or wants to see
munitions held up that are need
ed for the fighting men overseas
But that may well happen if the
'’oal situation is not solved and
solved promptly. It is a key prob
lem that confronts every Ameri
can right now."
It is expected that both the
coal situation and the railroad
difficulties can only be settled
by the government giving in and
"•ranting wage increasees. Particu
larly in the coal situation, past
experience has proved that the
miners will carry out a strike
without considering its effect on
war production unless they get
what they want — and there is
no law at present which can stop
h strine. The present anti-strike
law can be invoked only when
the government takes over the
mines and operates them as gov
ernment property. But.to do any
permanent good under this law
it would mean that the govern
ment would have to take over the
mines for the duration.
In stating that this is a prob
lem which concerns every Ameri
can right now, Mr. Wilson prob
ably hopes that the American
people will get stirred up enough
over the situation to demand
stronger legislation from their
congressmen.
BUY WAR BONDS
^ HULLABALOO
By LYTLE HULL
CRABBLERS
If we are on the winning side,
when tliis war is won the credit
won’t go to Henry A. Wallace,
or to the wildcat strikers, or to
lIu* Communists, or to those oth
ers who stir up trouble and fric
tion between the Allied nations,
between the races and between
those who are contributing the es
sentials to the success of our
cause. The credit will belong to
the men and the women who till
the soil though Hell or High Wa
ter rages; to those who keep the
wheels of industry turning
against all odds; to those who
labor to maintain .productive
peace between the component
parts of industry; to those who
sacrifice to help; to those who
struggle to hold in check the
many discords manufactured by
the many discord makers; to
those—most of all—who risk
and who give their lives for their
country and its cause. And it
will eo to the President of the
United States—in no small part
for the magnificent battle he has
wraged to sav'e our cause from
the greatest of all destroyers—
inflation.
History will doubtless record
that at acrucial period in this
creat struccle— when coopera
tion between us all was the sine
cilia non of military success—
the vice-president of this coun
try launched two ol the most
controversy - creatine speeches
which it would seem possible to
conceive: speeches which—whet
her they were constructive or not
—would be certain to cause dis
trust and friction at any time,
but particularly while the nerves
of the nation are stretched taut.
The undei lyinc / purpose of the
delivery of these harangues at
this inappropriate time is still a
mystery—hut they won't hasten
the winning of the wnr.
Nor will the heckling of our
native Communists produce that
‘“Second Front’’—they demand—
one instant sooner than the men
who know their business—and to
whom we have entrusted our
honor and our lives— decide to
produce it. It is the opinion of
the American and the British
people that their general staffs
are slightly better acquainted
with the military situation than
is Mr. Earl Browder — and his
associates; that it is doubtful if
the American and British people
would wish their leaders to take
a false and possibly suicidal step
even to please these estimable
and patriotic gentlemen.
The wildcat strikes aren’t has
tening the war to a successful
conclusion either. They don’t
involve many by comparison with
those millions of other workers
who put their country’s welfare
before anything else; but they
occur in such vital arteries that
they sometimes almost dog the
blood stream of the nation. It
will doubtless be a long time be
fore Americans forgive the coul
strikers who let them down at
such a time—no matter how just
their grievances might have been
Those who stir up racial ani
mosities are not helping us to
ward victory. They are injuring
the very causes of those whom
they appearently wish to assist..
There is neither time nor place
tor racial strife in this country—
particularly now.
And last hut not least among
those who wittingly or unwitting,
ly retard our march toward mili
tary success, are the internation
al crabbers”; those who in print
oi1 in speech cause friction be
tween the nations which must
stand together to win the war.
We have had a hundred and fifty
years in which to pick on the
English, and they can have the
next hundred and fifty years to
nick on us—but in the name of
reason and for the sake of our
souls, give us a little time off to
bring this war to a satisfactoiy
conclusion.
Eli**
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T REV. ROBERT H. HARPER t
The Sacredness of Human Life
Lesson for November 7: Exo
dus 20:13, Matthew 5:21-26, 38
45.
Golden Text: I John 3:15.
Beginning with the curse upon
Cain and expressed in the law
against murder, the Bible through
out teaches the sacredness of hu
man life by its commands against
taking human life. Murder is
generally regarded as the worst
if all transgressions, for it ends
an earthly career and makes it
impossible for a murderer to
make restitution.
Jesus, ever concerned to erad
icate sin at the source in the
heart warns against the hatred
chat may bring a man into danger
of the judgment, and counsels a
man to seek reconciliation with
his brother.
Further he teaches men to o
2reome ev'il with good. This it
not non-resistance but resistance
if wrong with good. To meet
wrong with wrong is to perpet
uate and increase it, as the sad
historf of the world proves. So
Tesus bids men to love even theii
enemies.
To loVe ones enemies is requi
red that one may be the son o»
the Father in heaven. To be u
rood son, a man must be a good
brother to all his fellows, who
brother to all his fellows who arc
sons of God and his brothers.
The real question is, how can
men love instead of hate, how
can they attain unto love, how
can they obey all the teachings
of Jesus? Only by faith in the
Great Teacher—not first as the
Great Teacher but as the Savior
of men. .And manifestly the su
preme need of the sorrowing
world is the spread of the gospel
of love.
cacup Fortune Telling
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TODAY
%nd
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
V*
SECRETS .... newsi
I am letting very sick of lisleu- j
,ny to "know-it-all’s” wo try to |
ittruct attention to themsel.es ;
jiV giving mo. or anfone olso who
vill listen. 11 it* inside dope on |
.vhat’s wroinr with olir war pro I
tram. ;
The other da\ for example, aj
man 1 knivv centered considera
ble attention on himself by ma*
in the paid statement that our j
troops are dyintr like flies in It
aly. "The trohble is." lie explain
ed, “that we aren’t hardening
our men enough-—a lot of them
are being sent into altion a tie',
only six weeks training:. How can
you expert them to litrht attains'
enemy troops which have been
doing nothing' but training lor 1
years or more?"
The answer to his final ques
tion would be “you can t.’ Hut .t
seems obvious that this would al
so be the answer to our war de
partment and that it. undoubted
ly would not send any man into
action who had had only six
weeks training.
As for his statement that our I
i l oops are being massacred in j
Italy, he certainly had no seen i j
nowledge of our casualty rate j
which has not been made availa
ble to us all.
His reply to those who contra
lict his statements by quoting
uhlished casualty figures was
hat we are not being told half
>f the store of this war. Hut. cv
*n if this is true, the fact would,
a ill remain that we are being
old the same half that he is be
ne* told. Any additional inform; -
ion he can add is based entirely
*n unfounded rumor or pure in
dention.
RUMORS development*
We can take it for granted
,hut people who can't be counted
upon to keep secret war informa
tion to themselves are not being
entrusted with war news whirl
s not being given to the publi
generally.
Any time you hear war stories
which are credited to a "high
authority in Washington,” or to
‘reliable sources,” or to an “at
my ofFicer” or ev'en to one of
your own acquaintances who has;
spent a week-end in Washington
or visited an army camp—if they
are stories which have a dernor
aling, ecect or tend to make you
distrust our war leaders and our
war news—you are quite safe in
assuming that they are the in
dention of Nazi propagandists or
fhe product of a fertile imagin
ation.
In many cases these “inside”
tories grow out of talks with
soldiers and sailors. They devol
>n it this wav:
A soldier says “They’re mov
ng us around fast thesg days.
\ hunch of new recruits who
came to my camp only six weeks
\go left yesterday."
A woman, who got this report,
tells her neighbor: “Isn’t it ter
rible how they are shipping boys
off to fight who hardly have had
any training at all Why. a sol
dier told me that they're sending
them abroad after only six weeks
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At Green Bay. oldest
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statue depicting an In
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I Many people from dis
tant lands live at peace
here in America making
it a better place to live.
Read ''or yourself what
Naaiism ha* meant for
Norway. Denmark, Hol
land, Greece.
training' to Italy I imagine.”
The neighbor then tells a
friend: “I feel so sorry for out
poor hoys in Italy. Imagine be
ing p put up in the front lines
after ovlv six weeks of training.
It’s plain murder.”
It’s easy to carry that story a
degree further and arrive at the
dying like flies” ehapter whieli I
heard.
NEWSPAPERS . . fact.
. There is no doubt that we are
not being given a lot of war
news. The President will admit
that. uSo will the beads of the
army, the na\y and the director
of censorship. They find it neces
sary to withhold much infornta -
til'll, which if released, would be
of benefit to the enemy.
But the point 1 would like to
drive home is this: news which
we bear which does not come of
an official source is just about
'■ 00 per cent misinformation.
Our count rv has the best news
reporters there are. They are on
the job all over the world. They
overlook no details in their re
ports of war news. Every story
which they write, whether is is
good or bad news, is published if
it is passed bv the “censor." It
is not passed by the censor then
no letters concerning that sub
ject are passed either.
The rumor factories in this
country are operating full tilt to
day. Their production is evident
wherev'er people meet—on trains
in subways, in churches, or in
barrooms. But it would be better
for all of us and help keep the
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score straight if, instead of lis
tening to war gossip, we would
adopt for the duration the sin
eon made famous by VN'dl Rogers
“All 1 know is what 1 read in the
MACHINERY
About 50 per cent of all repair
costs on farm machinery are due
to the machinery beimr left out
in the weather. sav-' A 1>. Blick
le. Extension Specialist, Agricul
tural Engineering at State Col
lege.
Wirt,
Greeting Cards
Mail Call is next to Mess Coll
as the big moment of a Service
Man's day. You con help rela
tives ond friends in the fighting
forces avoid those "no mail
blues" by sending cheerful,
thoughtful Greeting Cards—as
often as you can.
We have a large variety of all
kinds. Came i.i roon and select
a whole "series".
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