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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1942

'ERHAPS THERE'S LIGHT TO COME DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S press-conference ‘remarks ~ yesterday didn’t shed much light on the subjects of ubbe: and gasoline, and of wages and the cost of living. . ‘But perhaps the president's vagueness ‘had a purpose.

cares to indicate just now, m preparation for decisions is not yet ready to announce. We hopeso. For questions of great importance to the people of this try are involved, and they look to Mr. Roosevelt for nite information and affirmative leadership. % The president said that he was opposed to any further rise in the cost of living, and that a wage increase for employees of the Little Steel companies obviously would be a tor in raising the cost of living. But, asked whether a standard was needed for the guidance of the war labor board, which is preparing to “decide whether little steel wages shall be increased, his swer was yes and no. : fi # = =» ’ y x & > / ET, plainly, a national standard is necessary to give wage stabilization real meaning, and we still hope that Mr. Roosevelt intends to provide one or to ask congress to undertake that duty. ~~ The Little Steel decision may spell the difference between controlled prices and uncontrollable inflation, and ithe responsibility for it should not be left to the war labor ‘board without guidance from the policymaking branches of government. The president said: That if conditions became worse he might have to

"That he still clung to the hope of finding some way to separate the tire problem from the gasoline problem. “That the government was beginning to find out where _it stood on scrap rubber. :. That the entire subject was so complex he had found

But, asked specifically whether nation-wide gasoline ~ rationing would be necessary to save rubber, he replied that if he lived next to an oil well and had new tires on his “car, he did not know why he should not use the tires. ; » #" ” -» ” ELL, the rubber-gasoline question is complex, ana will hardly become less so until all the various federal agencies and officials who share responsibility for it are required to get together, pool their knowledge and compose ‘their differences. a: We hope. Mr. Roosevelt intends that to be done very ‘soon. Then there can be the basis for a decision whether = to adopt nation-wide gasoline rationing or more stringent measures. On one point the president was splendidly specific. His effort, he said, is to save the nation as a whole—not merely ‘to save rubber, tires and cars. And certainly he is right in his expression of firm belief that the people are ready to make any sacrifice which they are shown is necessary to achieve that great objective.

AUBREY'S NYA

HE. mystery of why congress was comparatively generous to the NYA, while clamping down upon the CCC, . deepens as one reads the Congressional Record. “The boys get $18,810,000 and the supervisory folks and expense get $30,919,000?” asked Senator McKellar. ~. “That is correct,” agreed Aubrey Wiliams head of the | agency. “That is the stoutest overhead I have ever read,” commented the senator, with restraint. ) But NYA got the dough.

PUERTO RICAN HOME RULE

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’'S reported plan for Puerto Rican home rule through an elective governor, beginning in 1944 or after the war, is good news. It is in line

policy in general, and his Latin American relations in particular. | g Puerto Ricans want increased self- government. They have a right to it. ~~ The: American public as no imperial‘ designs. Now ‘that Americans are fighting a war for freedom, they have added incentive—though none is needed—to grant to pthers all the rights they can maintain. : But it is not within the power of the United States to ant, or within the power of Puerto Rico to take complete dependence. Political independence is hollow unless it is 'otected by economic strength and military security. No nominal political freedom will bestow on Puerto ico the economic well-being and military strength essen- | to real independence. On the contrary, her partial dendence on the United States is decreed by facts of geograty and size which may be ignored by demogogs but canbe changed by law.

‘We hope the president’s reported plan for an elective |.

ernor after the war will be submitted to congress for

Li ; WILLARD ! » WILLARD, who is dead at 81, was of the finest’ : type of American captain of industry. He was a self‘man, a Vermont farm boy who entered railroading 2 section hand: and became president, op 31 years, of

several r posts in World war I. was a sincere and successful champion of labore co-operation. ‘He was an innovator in railroad

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undertake to alter the character of the bread which

the American housewife who would go im and buy the biggest loaf she could get for her mo: That is, if she saw two loaves, side by weighing a pound and selling for the same one smaller than the other, she would take one. So competition forced the bakers to do which would create volume, but there is no saying that any of this bread is blown full of wind with a bicycle pump. © Some of the experts who have written me say the public gets its money’s worth but just won't pay enough to permit; the big bakers to use the expensive } ingredients which go into home-made bread and certain semi-private breads of limited circulation produced by small operators here and there. As to this vitamin business, one authority said that what we do now is to refine the life out of the flour, not for any ulterior reason at all, but in a laudable if over-suc-cessful striving for perfection and they try to put it back by hand, so to speak.

What a Haul! 22 Loaves! -

I GOT A SURPRISINGLY good rise out of bakers and the haul of bread which ran to 22 loaves of many flavors and textures from as far away as Minneapolis, suggests a temptation to write something about store ham on the off-chance of stimulating a ham-shower. You never would suppose. there could be so many

and methods which are as individual as the individual face. .

fact that you get no more than you pay for. If you, meaning practically. all of us, insist that a certain price is all we will pay for a certain food and the cost,

than that price, the producer, who is no philanthropist, is going to take something off the quality and devise economies in the manufacture. In the case of bread he can’t afford to give you butter and milk according to the home formula and he has to rush it through the baking without any waste of fuel or man-hours or plant-hours.

The Honey and Butter Man

ONE BAKER WHO operates on a relatively small scale delivered eight loaves of his bread in person along with a letter which to me seemed rather learned, beginning with the traditional position of honor of the village baker in Furope and proceeding to the fact that you can’t expect personal character, so to speak, in a loaf produced by-the million by a great corporation. But this baker’s bread cost the consumer much more than the regular grocery price and the bakery which he runs is strictly a family enterprise which he began with his wife and in which they and other memi of the family still ‘put in serious hours of conscientious work. He uses honey and butter and you can taste the difference but you also pay for the difference including the longer and costlier method of baking. I don’t think I will tell you his name and address because, notwithstanding his claims that the general public

and. the bakers who work with them are now putting out about 70,000 loaves a week and if we should run up their score to say 700,000 loaves they would become manufacturers. Anyway I don’t think he cares for much more business because he says he is taking off only a small profit and doesn’t want to get rich. So now you know all about the bread situation.

The Blood Bank

By David Dietz

NEW YORK, July 8—The . American Red Cross is ‘sharply assailed for its policy of segregat-

ing the blood of white and Negro donors, in a report issued by the committee on race relations of the American Association of Physical . Anthropologists. This segregatioh “is not only unscientific,” says the report, “but it is a grievous and unprovoked 4 affront to the largest minority group in our country.” The committee is headed by Dr. William Walter Greulich, professor of physical: anthropology. and anatomy in the Western Reserve The other members are three distinguished scientists at the American Museum - of ‘Natural History. The committee points out that there is no known way of distinguishing the source of human blood in a test tube. It might be blood of a person of’ any color. “There is no evidence to indicate that the blood of Negroes differs in any significant respect from: that of whites,” the report states. “The same blood groups. occur among both Negroes and ‘whites and no difference has been demonstrated between Negro and white bloods of the same groups.”

Syphilis Charge Is Denied

THE COMMITTEE ALSO deals with the charge that there is a higher incidence of syphilis among Negroes than whites, and states: “There is no evidence that the incidence of syphilis is any higher among the Negroes who have volunteered as blood donors than it is among the white donors.” It is interesting to: note: that many popular beliefs . about blood are literary rather than scientific. All such phrases as “blood will tell,” “superior: blood,” “inferior blood,” etc., blood carries heredity. : As a matter of fact, the carriers of heredity are the genes in the chromosomes of the ‘germ cells, These do not appear in the blood.

number of preparations used today in the treatment of disease’ which are taken from animals. The blood of horses, sheep and other animals is used in. the preparation of many vaccines and serums.

seems highly improbable that any soldier or civilian \so seriously wounded as to require a blood transfusion will insist that it comes from a donor whose skin is no darker than his own.”

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of ingredients, fuel, work and distribution is more |,

will not pay the price of such bread, he and the family |

are based on the notion. that ] The committee also calls attention to the wide |

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“LOTS STILL FILLED WITH GOOD CARS, GOOD TIRES” By R. R Speitel, 25 N. Beville ave.. An open letter to Mr. Leon Henderson regarding gas rationing to conserve rubber: Much has been said on the subject of making the inland states more war conscious and reconciling them to the gas rationing plan to conserve rubber. When the time arrives when the citizens of these states can pass used car lots with thousands of good cars and good tires standing idle—and see the cars on racks with the tires remaved and no idle rubber visible— then and then only will we be war conscious and reconciled to the gas rationing plan, - In this city alone there are thousands of good: used: cars which are still on the market. If rubber is so vital (and we know it is) -why not have the tires removed from these cars, and in the event of a sale the customer be furnished with a set of tires as befits the quality and kind of car that he is purchasing? This would bring home to the public more vividly our need for conservation and stop a lot of controversial argument. People have. been advised to omit their regular vacations, and. in the same paper, full page ads of summer resorts and vacation places are being featured. “Consistency, Thou

Art a Jewel!”

” » ” : “TAXES BREED BUREAUCRATS, STILL MORE BUREAUCRATS” By Pat Hogan, Columbus Now that congress has spent months prophesying, pussy-footing and passing the buck on this messy unwholesome tax problem, it is time |’ to employ common sense. The president’s suggestion of $25,000 limit on incomes is too mild. I know good honest, farmers who have not made that much in a lifetime of foil, sweat and worry to produce our bread, meat and potatoes. What manner of man is this we are to smile upon with the $25,000 to $100,000 salary? ’ In noting.the income tax returns we find the executives of small industries (like. Scrooge described in this column recéntly) and the presi= dents of insurance companies. Consider: the ‘big ‘insurance man; here

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is an army of collectors riding about in fine dirs taking in the cash which pay: their own salary, the salary of ai nts and the big shot at the ‘top. Are we to be forever a nation of ;iickers? Why not put- this army ¢ collectors in the war industries n the firing line? “Why should 7: support a class in ‘luxury, -spleid or “and glamour while another cliss pays for it in toil and sweat on the production lines and the boys at the front shed their blood for £50 a month? These big sala 8 quickly produce mansions, fine cis and country estates for which robbed, murdere: and their children kidnaped; ind the display of wealth breeds me. And if the Japs or Hitler poy us a visit these fine-estates and gi ansions. make fine targets. i Our congress Po manage to live on $10,000 salari¢s, and no one will starve on ‘the safe limit. Instead of a © os tax or broader income tax, why [i ot a measure that : o put 25 per cent nonds? The bonds ith interest. Taxes never come back albeit, they breed bureaucrats and un more bureaucrats. It # Com ow “MERCHANTS | HOULD SELL REMAINING Ji" GOODS” By B. A. D., Bridg¢ ort In your editigh of July 4th, I noticed an artic k criticizing American selling of ¥ panese manufactured articles. 1 don’t agree with the writer of the letter. If American merchants hn ave on hand a’ supply of Japaii¢se-made articles,

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“TOO MUCH CREDIT GIVEN UNIONS FOR PROGRESS” . By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis This is not an argument against unions, as rights to union membership are as unassailable as the rights to join any church, lodge or social ‘organization. Mr. Hetrick, however, gives too much credit to the unions and too little to an era of progress for which management and not the unions should be given credit. Farsightéd railroad management that saw the economy of heavier road - beds, heavier rolling stock with longer trains and greater safety “to ‘the railway workers and public alike had a lion’s share in the progress that makes higher wages and better working condi-

tions possible. Another element that deserves but never gets any credit for our

of investors in railroad stocks and bonds that put plenty in but never got any out. If we still had the dinky equipment of the 80s on our railroads, railroad workers might still be worth only a couple of dollars a day. Then, too, it is misleading to compare the dollars of the late 19th century with the dollar of today. To those’ who supported families in the 80s or 90s it makes an easy comparison to spend $5 in a food shop now and compare it with the back-breaking load that a dollar or a dollar and a half would buy before 1900 or even before the first world war. A good union is all right but it is positively not the answer to human security in man’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Pegler’s crusade is not against the unions but against a vicious element that is breeding in ‘some of them. 2 2 2 “FAILURE TO LIMIT INCOMES GREEDY AND SELFISH”

By Warren A. Benedict Jr., 2919 Madison ave.

The president suggested a wartime tax that would prevent any one person from receiving more than $25,000 a year, after all taxes had been paid. A conservative British government, realizing the wisdom and justice of limiting individual incomes under war condi-

. | tions, already has a. similar tax.

‘In this supreme crisis every man,

“|woman and child is rightly called

on to make sacrifices. For millions

.| this means leaving homes and jobs

for military service and the hard-

it. The rest are called on for sacri-

fices and duties in’ hundreds of various ways. Public opinion seemed unanimous that when many are called on to make the supreme sacrifice there must not be a new crop . so It seemed almost unconceivable that there

would be a strong opposition to such

a just law. Yet this income: limitation has

can mean but one thing; there is a group, numerically weak but politically strong, that can block the will of .the majority. The congressmen and those behind them who killed this proposed

| taxation should be singled out and

labeled for what they are—un-

DAILY THOUGHT

The light of the body is the eye: If therefore th eye 'be single, thy whole bodly shall be full of light—Matthew 6:22, !

railroad system is the large army|

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Patrione, greedy and un-American.

WHENEER into thine eyes I see,

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By peter “Edson

_ WASHINGTON, July -8~The fact is gradually being driven home that this war production business, big and hurry-up. as it is, still will not be able to utilize the productive capacity of every manufacturing plant in the coun=

terials and there is not enough skilled labor to use every plant on war. production and nothing but the most essential civilian goods

| nodution. As a result, you are apt to hear much

yowling as thousands and tens of thousands of

| small manufacturing firms realize theyre not going

to get any war orders. Many of these firms have

1/| shut down by ‘WPB limitation orders, cutting off

manufacture’ ‘of civilian goods. But those cut-off orders were to save materials and it does not follow that everyone of these shut-down firms’ eventually

; will get war contracts.

. The sad fact is that they will have to get: realistie

| ‘and realize that there are going to be more. sitions

casualties—perhaps 25,000 or 50,000 of them.

Contracts. Being Re-examined . TO: FORCE: ANY ‘appreciable number of Sse dis=

|] | located. plants to keep going when they are’ nok

equippéd.fo do a. good job on war orders would be ine dustrial boongoggling of a seriotis nature, according to present WPB thinking. Tn too many of these plants, the machine tools are not accurate enough ‘to do the

1, | precision work required for military production, Te

give contracts to shops of this category just to keep

them’ busy would not only waste material but Slow 2 up production as well,

Definite efforts are being made to spread war cons tracts to as many small plants as possible. One fruite ful method of bringing more plants into war produc= tion has been by re-examination and relocation of

making time fuses for shells, it was found that ons such big contract had been given to a watch company, While this at first seemed like a notable conversion of a civilian industry to war production, re-examination showed it was a bad contract. Making ‘time fuses requires no specially acourite machinery. The precision tools and highly experie enced machine operators of a watch factory, however, were suited to the production of navigating instru ments, range finders and other high accuracy manu= facture. So the time fuse contract was reassigned to a lower quality works, and the watch factory is make ing precision instruments. : ‘

Big Pinch In Next Six Months

THERE WILL BE more of this down-grading ot contracts, but it can’t take up all the slack in poten= tial production capacity. In general, pooling of small manufacturers in a given community to utilize all their skills and machinery on one war contract Jug not been satisfactory. In a few communities where there has been goo: management, the pool has worked beautifully, But there is no pattern applicable to every community. Sub-contracting, where the prime contractor can pick his makers of bits and pieces and supervise their work, has done better. But even this cannot be used to put’ every lathe and drill-press to work. As usual, the small plant owners and managers who saw this coming are making out all right. But fac tories that hung onto Business as usual as long as they could, then were forced to shut down by limitation or ders, and now sit back waiting to be given something. else to do, are going to be out of luck. In the next six months the small manufacturers are going to feel g terrible Pinch, out in the cold.

A Woman’ Ss Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IN SPITE OF increasing ballye. hoo for women to do manly work, -emphasis is still placed upon. femininity. Fashion and heauty, experts, family guidance clinics and psychologists caution women to hold fast to their soft and. gentle ways. Just how we're going to 3 both. is not explained. Maybe they exe pect us to “pass a miracle.” That's what it would amount - to, of: course. Since man. is essentially the product of his bee havior, I don’t see how they figure woman can be

riage and motherhood make a woman feminine. And so they do, if we stick to the biological definition of. the word, but that isn’t what the experts are talking. about. When they say “feminine,” they mean something else. connotations of softness, fragility, dependence, gentle sensibilities, and, in journalese, it means frilly, pliable and meek.

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NO WONDER THE world grows ‘more for girls. On the one hand they are advised .to work,

told to cultivate feminine attitudes, else the ultra=: masculine males emerging from this period .of ‘history. —the fighters, the martial heroes—won’t fancy them. And since when have women failed to react to that. suggestion? As you see they are on a spot. . The truth is that femininity is something inta 2 ible. It springs from spiritual sources, and has ing to do with what is worn. Few sights have been, quite so hard to reconcile with. common sense as many lovely, curved, melting gorgeous modern women,

-comporting themselves like saloon toughs. .

Smoking, drinking and cursing have created thing new in feminine form, and we. may, :

The new woman. will be a fine. creature, but you can bet your bottom dollar she feminine—unless we throw away. ll our tions of the word."

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