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. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941

BRADFORD'S COMMITTEE

do not know why James L. Bradford felt it was "necessary to name an advisory committee of 18 eminent citizens for the coming campaign. Down on the farm, though, it used to be the custom to erect a lot of lightning rods before the 98 Weather sot stormy. :

FRESH PORK ON THE POTOMAC ‘ 'N' Washington, the seat and center of a colossal effort to spend this country into a position of safety in the world, “the greatest pork barrel in history” is in the making. - ~. We refuse to. believe that this measure, the catch-all rivers and harbors bill, will be passed. We are not so cynical about representative government as to think that a majority of Congressmen will yield to the temptations of log- . rolling and vote, in times like these when all our energies . are needed for defense, to revive the discredited Florida Ship Canal plus 150 to 200 other ‘projects adding up to a billion dollars or so. But we may be wrong. There is a ‘contagion about the spending of billions. Against the sum total of the current ~ Federal budget, a few tens of millions for improving a waterway are apt to look like small potatoqs. And Congressmen of the sort that never vote for a tax or against an appropriations are numerous enough to make this grab-bag a real threat. The surest way to head it off is for the communities and ‘regions involved to let it be: known" that they prefer to forego’ these nonessential projécts for’ the duration of the emergency. v3

OPEN DECISIONS, OPEN LY ARRIVED AT HERE wag disagreement at the White House conference yesterday; forcing another session today, but Administration leaders say. the President will ask Congress to repeal the Neutrality Act prohibitions against arming U. S. merchant ships or sending them into belligerent zones. If this is true, the President has rejected the advice of those who want him to continue sidestepping ‘Congress and making war policy by executive fiat. Those advisers fear the disruptive effects of Congressional debate; they “are too blind to see that national faith and unity are being strained’ by evadion of the ‘constitutional injunction that Congress must decide the war issue. The President can no longer go around Congress with- . out ignoring the democratic method to which this nation is dedicated and he is committed. The issue is the preserva‘tion of American democracy. This" transcends even the fateful question of war or peace. ‘Of course Congress has a responsibility for using the deniocratic . processes. recent weeks. ‘No executive can assume powers of Congress unless: Congress defaults. . There has been too much buckpassing on Capitol Hill, too much willingness to let the President make the decisions and take the consequences. This, more’ than anything else, is destroying public confidence. : That: confidence n be yostored by sober and responsible Congressional consideration of the undeclared war issue raised by the President. This does not mean rubber- . stamping the President. Neither does it mean Hlibustering —as hinted by Senator Nye. Let there be adequate debate, free from both legislative obstruction and executive bladkjacking; then a clear decision. That is democracy, andthe nation will abide by the result. : | | :

WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES

GMOKE a pack of cigarets a day, and in one week your Federal tax is 451% cents. ‘That's more than: eno ugh to buy a day's rations for a

“Bat it’s not, quite ‘enough to buy ‘a sponge rubber : cushion for a Washington swivel chair—price, 61 cents.

HEMISPHERE FREE TRADE

THE United States is lending money and advancing credits to Latin American nations again, Will those debts ever be paid ? The answer depends on whether we will. permit

We refused to allow our debtors of the last war to pay ~~ We refused to take their goods—the only real form of only a symbol for such exchanges. - walls we shut out our debtors’ goods-

pm that trade. is exchange: did not | 2 to: operate just to. accommodate our one-way system. thom of a depression pit, padded by |

We were left in the rthless paper and disillusionment. . In our zeal to shut t South American products we use not only tariff barriers t also sundry sanitary embargoes and other devices. Argentenians complain that, if they had a vast gold 2, they could dig that metal out of the ground and give to us to put back in the ground, and they would receive ym us in exchange needed manufactured goods. But since have the food needed by tlie underfed one-third of our ation, instead of gold which we do not need and camfio we refuse to tradé our goods for theirs. : A current Foreign Policy Association report proposes noval of United States import duties on major South

can’ commodities." We agree that this “would ‘do more |

speeches, EE resin io Srengfies this country and Latin Le on :

The duty has been met during | ‘¢ourt found that Kauffman got $150 a week, plus

or the’ wishtul thinking of Hilton.

generally known that two other bosses

EE oil room Tia |

ormally accused. They are

who holds Browne's personal appointment as his on Bd in-the Chicago area, and Louis Kauffman of Newark. I want to give you a little background this Kauffman who operates in a local ‘way unknown outside his local jurisdiction, but is a specimen, nevertheless.

No Election for 10 Years

IN 193¢ A GROUP holding “junior” m in Kauffman’s union brought a suit in New Jersey which was decided in their favor and the information I offer here is taken from the opinion of the court. Kauffman has been business agent of the local since 1920 which was long before Browne became the national president on the liquidation of his predecessor, Tommy Maloy, by shotgun fire. Kauffman’s local held no elections at all in one 10-year period and the officers extended their terms by resolutions adopted in meetings. There were two classes of members, the seniors’ and the juniors. The juniors were fully qualified operators of movie machines, but they were kept in the junior status so that they would not be able.to vote. They were, as the court said, “obliged to surrender their jobs to the seniors on demand.”

Juniors had to pay 10 per cent of their pay up to |.

$50 a week and 15 per cent above $50, and $36 a year dues, so that a junior making $100 a week had to. kick in $686 a year, whereas a senior paid only $180 on the same salary. A junior could not become a senior except by consent of the seniors voting and even then he had to pay an initiation fee of $500. :

‘Worked for Officers . . . Got Nothing

“ONLY 11 MEN HAVE been made seniors since 1919,” the court said, “seven of whom were closely

related to officers of the local; ‘and two others were |

closely related to high officials of the Newark Police Department. One of these was made a senior because of the influence of his father who was a high pqlice official. ‘At the time he had been affiliated with the local only six or eight months. Other Juniors who

| have been such for years are still waiting.” discussed

The court -also and forbade “oft -theArm” work “where a member, usually a junior, performs the work of one of the officers in a theater in addition to his own job in another theater and the officer collects the salary, the:member actually performing the work receiving nothing for it.” “Kauffman, the business agent; Cooper, the president; Oppenheimer, the secretary, .and Gehring, the assistant business manager, and perhaps others, have been on the payrolls of the largest theaters for years,” the court found. “Some of them (the juniors) worked 16 or more hours a day while getting paid for only half or less of that time. The excuse is that their time (the officers) is taken up with official business and that the officers’ salaries are small. Kauffman has not worked since 1929, but has been in receipt of a salary from one of the best paying jobs in Essex County and one of the juniors has performed his work for nothing.”

"But Modified Slavery’

“ONE WITNESS CALCULATED,” continued the court, “that he had earned more than $30,000 for which the officers received the pay; another ‘$25,000. The condition resulting from this system is but modified slavery. “The juniors are no more than serfs, obedient to the will of the dictatorial officers of whom the business agent, Kauffman, is the supreme dictator. The position of the seniors, except the favored ones, is not much better.” . As to the insufficiency of the officers’ pay the

$100-a week, or more, from a theater in which he did not work, $46 a month for auto maintenance 2d annual’ “presents” of $5000 out of the treasury in 1930, 1931 and 1932. Ia 1931 he also got $1000, “ostensibly fcr services on a wage scale commission,” plus expenses when attending conventions, notwithstanding the fact that the national body paid the officers traveling costs and $10 a day for living expenses. :

New Books By Stephen Ellis

FANTASY IS NOTHING NEW in the bookshelf of Americana. Legends and folklore were a part ‘of the people who settled this land: From “Johnny. Appleseed” . fo “Topper,” Americans have indulged in fantasia in all the years of strug- ' gle that made this nation great.. Americans like fantasy because. . it. is fresh .and imaginative, whether it’s the scientific futurism of Wells ‘and Huxley, the social. satire of Mark Twain and Cabell,

And now off the press comes a new fantasy novel, a combination of pseudo-science and pure hokum. It is as entertaining as Frank Reed’s dime novel aeroplane flights in the days before the Wright Brothers in combination with a fairy tale in the style of Lord Dunsany. This is the “Incomplete Enchanter” by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The two have combined their talents to produce pure escape fantasy which captures the imagination and whisks it away on the broomstick that carries the psychologist Harold Shea over the misty land of the old Norse gods,

Let's Go, Boys and Girls!

‘SHEA IS A DISCIPLE of that unorthodox savant, Reed Chalmers. It is Dr. Chalmers’ theory that there are any number of possible worlds co-existent with the one wherein we all live and have so much trouble. All you have to do to get into one of these other

or so behind. *

“Of equrse, vou matehes, ‘revolver and flashlight won't ‘work bécause: the - laws of physics and chemistry have been these the technique of

ye deo : : en whishs hirself out of his world because is bored, bevatise he fesls Madofuste and wishes to escape the machinations of a certain Mugler, who seems intent on snaring him into matrimony.

‘When Shea disappears into the twilight o: 20s Tor. & boot rite ants ad ayy abt, of the reader goes with him. apes there on is Snough to tks YUUI.zaing the being due on Monday. : THE _JNCOMP, MELETE ouA by Fletcher Pratt and

Holt & Co., New York, 326 pp., $2.50.

* | brother.” .

| Fascists and, before the war between Ri

The Hoosier or

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say ib. — Voltaire.

‘FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM’ By Mrs, William Myers, 4436 Vandalia St. I could ‘not help feeling grieved last evening to hear a Washington [big shot had said that Mr. Roosevelt was trying to get Josef Stalin “to join church so he could call him I wish the scorner would read the Psalms (1-1), then put some callouses on his own knees. Maybe this is Gad’s. golden opportunity to get among ‘the people of Russia. The

{fear of God is the beginning of

wisdom. : Only a fool would block such a movement. , ... : ; ” ” 2 THINKS LINDBERGH BELONGS IN CONCENTRATION CAMP By M. 8. Reese, Indianapolis Some years ago while talking conditions, cause and effect of World War No. 1 over with a German friend, he laughed, and said, “Americans are dumb.” He went on to say: “They don’t know what they want: after they get it they: kick their

‘|heads off, they vote you in office

with your petty democratic elections and from that time on they try to kick you out.” He went on to say

“las they: , usually do, “Now in Ger-

many-—,” I was polite but furious and ine mediately ‘put up what I thought at that time was a pretty, good argument for the U. S. A, but in the last few months I have reached ‘a startling conclusion.’ My German friend was absolutely right! ‘We Americans are dumb, we are gullible.. While: we indulge in criticizing England for Munich, for Poland and Norway, we are doing a better job of selling America to the Nazis than [Laval and Quisling did for their

| countries.

What lies behind all these strikes and unrest? Don’t blame it on the Communists, but put the shoe on the Lindberghs and the Burton K. Wheelers all over the country. They are working 24 hours a day to bring about distrust, prevent unity and

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can

have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

keep the whispering campaign fourishing

Such talk at a time like this is nothing short of high treason. .... Put the Lindberghs in concentration camp for the duration and impeach the Wheelers and the battle for this country would be half won. If Roosevelt is diplomat enough to bring God back to Russia, I'm all for helping Russia to the last. plane and machine gun we've got. If they can stall Hitler off in Russia isn’t ‘it better than having the battle line on the Atlantic seaboard? The boys in the armed service cannot strike for any reason. Do you who have sons there want their lives to be jeopardized in the future because you, their fathers, had to strike for, not higher wages or less hours, mind you, i for Adolf Hitler? .. «i. v “. ‘» a AMERICA - FIRST ANSWERS TREATY-BREAKING QUERY

miele J, Ml, Shaky fant

The, America First, Committee das been asked “How can America have peace, With. 'a treaty-breaking Hitler when a dozen Bptions, tried ‘it and are slaves?” ' Unfortunately for the ‘world, Hit ler has no monopoly on’ treatybreaking. Nor has world peace ver been ' dependent” upon the which put nations ‘upon treaties. Otherwise, nations would not year in and year out “have spent such tremendous sums on armament when everyone had promised not to attack the other. In order to defeat the treatybreaking Hitler whom we cannot trust, we must do so with the aid and assistance of Mr. Stalin.. We

cannot win the war for ourselves

Side Glances —By Galbraith

. Washington including - the

ple do not want to h

without at the same time winning

it for Russia. And while Hitler was busy tearing up solemn treaties in western Europe, Mr. Stalin was per-. forming an equally dastardly “task

. |in eastern Europe. In violation of

solemn treaties and assurances, the Communist armies at the command of Mr, Stalin overran. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia, Finland and part of Rumania and Iran. If we cannot make peace with Hitler because his word is not to be trusted, how can we make peace with Stalin],

American lives setting up. the Com ‘munist regime in Europe. However, we are not without an opportunity to strike a mighty blow for the sanctity of a solemn promise. It could bé done voluntarily and without the loss of life, by those who are urging young men to give up ‘their lives to enforce such concepts elsewhere in the world.

himself, “Our Chief Executive and members of Congress were elected to office on a platform which expressly promised our people that we would not go into a foreign war. A short year ago both candidates for President expressly promised the people on many occasions the policy of this government would be directed towards peace and that men would not be sent to fight in foreign war. I now wholly disagree with that policy and wish those promises had never been made, Nevertheless, I. do. believe . in the sanctity of a promise and recognize that our government is “based upon the ‘confidence of all ‘people in the promises of their leader. So that even though I now wish we were free to go to war, I. will riot urge or agitate the leaders of this government to take a;course in violation of their plighted: word. .A promise is sacred ‘and Should be kept, even to one's: own people ”

STANDS BEHIND WHEELER, LINDBERGH AND COLLEAGUES By Charles Norris, 1505 Kelly 8¢. ' I have always been under the im-' pression that of government every citizen has the right to.express his or her views even to criticize the high officials at] President. ..... : It the. American people conld’ get it into their heads this one thing, the President and all of: his officials under him are the servants of ‘the

people" and not the masters of’ the “Let's

people. We elect them to represent] :

the perfect right to criticize them... Mr. Lindbergh, Mr. Wheeler and others should be congratulated for having the courage to come out ghd

| express the truth to the people:but '|it seems as though some of our

ear/the “ODE WRITTEN IN 1746

‘following their advice for

after we have spent several million |

Such a person might well say tol.

{ to our form{

us and if they don’t do it we have cli

| Gen. Johnson

~ fight goes on” is the title of the President's. - magazine - series in Collier's recounting his adminise tration. One would. expect to find that “the fight” was one for Amer ican rearmament and defense.’ But as each successive issue ig pube lished, it becomes more and more

Mr. Roosevelt has in mind in series at least. This fight seems to pe to. diseecit og punish all who have not supported all his policies— both foreign and domestic. Especially as to his une

says there was a “minority” in opposition. “Although they were a minority they formed a very. ., grou + +. bad large funds at their disposal | or propaganda purposes . . . had support of some of the largest newspapers and newspaper chains . . could command the services of a handful of “United ’ States Senators who knew they had the power of filibuster. - “This group included the defeatists . . . the ap< peasers . . , some businessmen and: financiers. who : urged that Americans could do business with Hitler and make fat profits . ., included all of the Bundists, =

many, all the subversive Communists.” those subversive Communists now?) -

become ‘thoroughly convinced of the fallacy—to

arguments.”

It's a Popuilous Dog Mouse -

TRUTH OF THE MATTER is that many who Have. disagreed with the President, particularly on defense. and rearmament wexe advocating the steps on which he is now crediting himself, long before, years before . he was willing to heed. Proof of their correctness and. his error is that he is now, step by reluctant step,

example on industrial moe Pllisation and all-out preparedness—months and years

That is not of much importance. The important thing is to get a unified effort of all-our talent.' The:

all his friends and punish all his enemies.” Many great men have had political dog houses; or'”

rising water of forgetfulness. It is doubtful whether any ruler or. dictator ever

HE NEVER FORGETS and he neve top Ve in his more mellow moments, he boagts of this gives and

this country his personal barony.

one single personal difference. Maybe it is ri ht, Maybe it is the, only way to run a country in war Ly Washington didn’t do it and neither did Napoleon

Sa t, » they usually segrelisd it. . To, the precise contrary seems to be the meth Mr. Hitler, Mr. Stalin and as I recall was the thod of. of the old man of the mountains, the.curse of the. crusaders, Just the same it doesn’t seem to be.a good. .. American method. It wouldn't be hard for Mr. ‘Roose, velt to get 100 per cent unity on his war polictes NOW ~,

CORRECTION: In a recent column I said that at the organization of America First, Lessing Rosenwald was its chairman and promptly resigned. He tells me that he was an original member But not the chair err and ‘promptly resigned. I gladly di this

A Woman s Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

women, Mrs. W. A. Zant and Mrs,

movement which deserves to become nation-wide. * The work Is right up our alley and evefy club ™ in every town ought to give it a

‘er’'s Defense Group has been ore ganized. Sounds queer at frst, maybe, but the idea’ is ‘based on something better than common sense or national se=" jjourity. It foresees the desperate need for a new’ understanding of human: needs—the neéds of the mind, the heart and the soul. i Reading has ceased to be a delight and become a necessity. They also contend that, while life may, appear sad, it can never be without: hope, Therefore,

selves and study those which stimulate rather: than soothe, and which give ideas as well as pleasure, -* This kind of reading is always possible, the individual who believes: herself to be reader. For the way. to begin to learn to read Nialle Suoks 5 ihe, samme, Way ons Yegifis to new language. . : eg

A Little More Pride in Minds : SUPPOSE WE WANT to take up Spanish.

North ;

purpose—improvement of the mind—gets under way, “Let me quote’ two’ statements by the organizers

| of the Reader’s Defense Group which links the move-

ment with our more material programs for National security: . “The well-read person never becomes ene tirely disorderly or ignorant.” “Arms ma; y safeguard | life and territory. Hooks, the right books, Will safe ee guard mental health and develop civilian, pe Pi ”

best writers of today do not assume a d

pride in their minds. Bodies and their care are ima ’ portant mow, too, but.there was never. .a of history. when mental equipment .was. more needed.. yy aside the soothing-syrup literature, or take at’ least in smaller doses, and give oe gf)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—“The

apparent that such is npt the fight _ °

planned, belated and inept effort at rearmament, he

and Gers (Where are i

“The majority of American Pecsle, however, has ou nothing of the immorality and degradation of ey .

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President’s principal concern seems not so’ much’ the™* war but Andy Jackson's political formula “to reward ~

as they used to be called “oubliettes”-—cellars: intd ‘= which erstwhile opponents could be drowned in hy

enjoyed a more populous dog-house than P. D. R, kd

His Own Personal War re =

. It sticks out of every chapter in these AR : | ee Susie Js se mpm

Past services to him and his cause, no matter how. | vigorous, loyal or effective, cannot survive in his heart ®: |

but candor compels the observation that. when they.

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IN PT. WORTH, a two

W. BE. Boswell, have started’ a:~

push: oN With the help of ‘a local tec # turer, Mrs. E. E. Averitte,'a Reade

women who have time for books must bestir theme ::

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even t0=: ‘& None J

learn a3 a We: form ‘a group, select a teacher and start, don’t . we? And precisely in that same way, solid reading’ with a

Anil § 1s true, as. {he women poiny, od. a i

‘Tew meaning and a new purpose. pa

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