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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1042
SOUTH AMERICA’S WAR
IF anyone can bring South America into. the war, Hitler is the man. Of course that was not the purpose of his submarine commanders who sank the five Brazilian coastal ships, but this has aroused more hatred of the axis in South America than anything since the war began. It is another case where Nazi terrorism has boomeranged. Despite hemisphere co-operation following the Rio conference of last January, only Mexico and the nine central American and Caribbean countries have declared war. Apart from Argentina and Chile, who have not even broken diplomatic relations, the others have been content to * take anti-axis measures short of war. 2 Even Brazil, the most militant of South American countries as well as the largest and most important stra- ~ tegically, sat by while the Nazis sank 14 ships. But the response to these five additional sinkings is different-—the . people and the press are calling for war. 5 In Uruguay, where predominant friendship for the United States was somewhat restrained by the opposite attitude of neighboring Argentina, the war spirit is rising. After the Brazilian sinkings, the semi-official newspaper of Montevideo declared: “The whole of America is at war since yesterday.” This is an exaggeration, but it represents a trend; The old Latin American attitude that there was more to fear from the United States than from the axis—so well stimu- . lated by propagandists and fifth solurministi—rasse to be “popular. ~~ Washington's good neighbor Lui..y, backed by economic and military aid, is partly responsible, and Hitler is. persuading them, by his acts, that he is out to conquer the world.
72... AND STILL GOING STRONG
BERNARD M. BARUCH was still in his “fighting forties” when President Wilson told him to take charge of America’s tangled war industries in 1918. Under his skillful management the production program was speedily unsnarled, and industry contributed its overwhelming weight to early victory. Now in his “savvy seventies,” Mr. Baruch works in another war for solution of America’s toughest problem on the home front—rubber. President Roosevelt dumped the problem into his lap only after many others had meddled and messed with it, and found no answer. Bernard Baruch did his job in the first World War by surrounding himself with the ablest men available, delegating authority to them and backing them to the limit. And that is the way he is handling his present job. Aided by his fellow committee members, Dr. Conant and Dr. Compton, probably the most competent men in the whole country for this difficult assignment, Mr. Baruch is moving with characteristic dispatch—first to nail down all the facts concerning our rubber shortage, second to determine the best means of conserving what we have, and
» third to devise the speediest methods: of overcoming the
shortage.
and businessmen clawing at each other. That all subsided when the Baruch committee took charge. Today Mr. Baruch celebrates his 72d birthday—celebrates it without taking any time off from serving his country. Could any man ask for a finer tribute than the public
confidence so evident on all sides?
RIGHT, MR. SECRETARY THE army has no place for “promotion of news,” says Secretary of War Stimson. : ‘ Most citizens, having fresh in mind the hoax dished ‘up last week by a misguided public relations officer of the _ first air corps who released a report and photographs of
_ allegedly subversive markers ‘on the eastern countryside,
will agree heartily. And there will be general applause for the secretary’s order reorganizing the war department’s publicity agencies, restricting their activities ‘and reducing the number of officers, enlisted men and civilians on their staffs. The war department has a legitimate, and highly important, news function. The American people look to it for factual information: about the work of the army-and about the men in the army. But they do not want from it Srobsusnds and puffery, and certainly they do not want from it phony “promoted” news. Yet rapid expansion of the army has brought with it a multiplicity of public relations men, a great deal of confusion and’ duplicated effort—and, as in the case of the hoax per ited last week, too. many Hollywood press agent tactics,” out of ‘place in the government at any time and inexcusable in wartime. Secretary Stimson’s order: encourages hope that a lot of this foolish, ‘wasteful activity will be cut out, and that
* CORRESPONDENT returned from Italy says that Britain has Jaunched a whispering campaign to under-
y the British are trying to undermine Gandhi's prestige ‘this country I do not know,” says the traveler. We know. The British want to undermine Gandhi beuse the Mahatma’s influence threatens to permit Japan capture India, join hands with the Nazis, and turn this : ver to the most brutal, uncivilized Wyre o of totali- | ; ns to com
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| government : agericy ‘or by union: officials, insisting that the man-}
Bl hours lost by strikes since Pearl
Harbor have been only :003 of the}
total of hours: worked, or less than one-tenth of the. hours lost by * malnutrition or hang-over or plant accidents. I ‘don’t know
'* "what this lost hourage, due to strikes, amounts to and I doubt that any of us ever | will know because our national government is ind u political cahoots with the unions and the protector |
of ‘their racket and may be relied on never to tell the truth.
The reasons why. the government won't let the
truth be known through any public agency ‘and may. be expected to confuse and deceive private inquiries
are obvious. For one reason, the figures would make |
the government, itself, look bad in the eyes of the whole people, only a very small and not entirely willing minority of whom are union members. There should
be no strikes whatever in any war industry nowadays, |
or since Dec. 7, and these mutinies, as you might call them, against the nation in time of war are a discredit to the administration, which naturally is not going to give out any information discreditable to itself,
Dan Tobin's Teamsters Said It
‘THE TERM THAT Mr. Biddle; the attorney general, used in making this identity a matter of political record was “labor” not “union,” but he meant “union” because everybody. knows that although, normally, practically all adult Americans work, very few belong to unions and 20-some millions of them voted for the other fellow in the last presidential election. They all use the word “labor” as a synonym for “union.” Well, these unions, under the protection .of the administration, have a taxing power which gives them a rake-off of one thousand million dollars a year and the administration can tap this rake-off any time to almost any extent to buy elections, and you can’t expect the administration to tell the public any very unpleasant truths on such a rich pal as that. Dan Tobin's teamsters said it all recently when their executive group decided to spend as much money as might be necessary to elect pro-union, meaning pro-administration, men to office. This is common practice and the administration, naturally, has fought down all proposals to prevent such use of such money.
. | Does It Matter How It's Done?
A QUICK STRIKE which is over in a day but costs a day's production and may cost more is not regarded as a strike for scoring purposes. It is just a practice swing, as you might say. A conference is another trick which is not scored
as a strike because the union doesn’t actually declare:
a strike but calls all members into .conference ‘for days and days during which they cripple the plant and make it. impossible for others to work. In Carlsbad, N. M, a town which lost 100 boys on Bataan, one of those conferences ran around the clock for 10 days and shut off that much production of potash but it wasn’t a strike. If a lot of union workers, by obvious prearrangement, but without declaring: a strike, all absent themselves from work individually, that isn’t a strike, either. And, of course, that wasn’t a, strike up in Buffalo recently when a group of construction workers of the Joe Fay racket, known as the ‘operating engineers union, all got sick in an epfiemfc of something that their business agent said could be cured by a raise of 13 cents an hour. That was loss of work due to the dreadful wear and tear of their war effort, or maybe malnutrition, and will be scored ‘against the capitalistic system, not against the union as a strike. And, finally, if a real strike is called and it is so harmful and outrageous that there is no disguising it, then the- master union, either the C. I. O. or the A. F. of L., will say that the strike is a deplorable violation of “labor’s” ‘solemn ‘and sacred {Pledge and is repudiated. : But the harm Is done Just the same.
The Seadrome Idea By Major Al Williams
Only a few days ago the pibler controversy was raging | fiercely, with scores of government officials, congressmen
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—We started out in this war with a lot of aircraft carriers. No matter what we thought then, we have discovered that the use of the © carrier is limited, and strictly, to © operations :beyond the range of shore-based air forces. Outside of a surprise raid or so, it is recognized as suicidal to think of attempting to launch an invasion of any strongly air-de-fended coastline with- aircraft carriers. The defense air force ignores the rest of the sea armada and nips off the carriers in the wink of ‘an eye. We built the aircraft carrier as a super-speedster of the sea, and thereby rendered it vulnerable to any
kind ‘of striking power—guns, torpedaes, and bombs. P
“This Isn't a Beauty Contest"
JUST SUPPOSE WE built a modernized version of the seadromé—a great circular floating airdrome of heavy steel sides and hull. Suppose we built a lot of them, to be towed by tugs toward an enemy coast. On some such seadromes we could base bombers, and on others, fighters, dive bombers, etc. We need not care whether the enemy knew we were coming or not. We would, in effect, be merely moving our air. bases closer to the enemy. If the West coast of this country were within 500 miles of Japan, we would have bombed Japan into submission by this time, We can outproduce the Japs 10 to one on aircraft. . But we can’t get our air-
craft to flying over Japan because of - the distance |.
our bases are from Japan. What's the matter with moving our bases close enough to Japan? And what's
the matter with building seadrome bases, and enough :
of them to move real airpower? TE A circular vessel of any type would look. funny. But this war isn't a mechanical beauty - .contest. A steel fiying field that will float without expensive
‘machinery would be. cheap to build, and could be
built fast. “We need a way to niove.ouf air bases closer to our enemies. so that all types. of aircraft can do battle with. he enemy ab the same time. What about sea‘dromes
‘|So They Say—
Chocolate-covered facts are being given the coun= : : try about production which really is ‘just crawling
along.—Walter P. Reuther, UWA vice president.
_ Post-war America will see thousands of freight-| plane trains, carrying millions of pounds of freight. 1
Col. Edward S. Evans, industrialist. . * ‘. s > : We Norwegians are fully aware that not only continents but also oceans are links between nations
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“WHAT A WAY TO TALK ABOUT YE TOMATO ED” By Jewell Cox, 938 Lexington ave. : My, what a way to talk about our tomato editor.. ‘He has really brought some joy to some of us anyhow. I loved to read his articles each evening, and I do miss them
very much. By the way, how is your garden? Perfect, I suppose. You are no doubt the type of person who finds fault with everything and everyone, Tish, tish.
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By Mrs. Evelyn Hilton, 2214 Spann ave, . It seems that the “woikin’ gal” sure stuck her neck out when she suggested the men should offer their seats to standing women on streetcars. Anyhow, it was a good discussion, and we found out how some of them felt. : The day of men having respect for the weaker sex is past, according to L. G. D. of Indianapolis. He classes all women in one low class. The poor fellow, he is the weaker sex and: hates to admit it. He needs sympathy for he sure must have’ received an awful hard jolt from some female, to cause him to form an {Upition like that, of women. The men have come to the place where they need a woman to put her shoulder to the wheel and help it turn. Who wants sa “clinging vine” for a wife?
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“THE ARMY WILL SHOW US HOW TO DO THINGS" By Sinbad, Indianapolis We may be in a terrible war involving great sacrifices on all of us, but have you ever stopped to think of the good this war has caused? Take a drive down Court st., Liberty st., Wabash, Miami st., W. Ohio, some night—dark ahd dreary old empty houses, aren't they? Re-
used to house all the lewd and filthy entertainment you wanted for a buck a throw?
to prosecute the owners of all these
girls collected their dollars; then split with someone else for the privilege of operating? Boy, was that rich gravy! How our city fathers met with the army authorities to work out some scheme to bring the girls “under supervision of the board of health, to protect our soldier's health”? Boy, that was a good one! What happened? Bang! Overnight every house was closed tight, and has been ever since. Something the prosecutor, the sheriff, the chief himself, had been irying to do for years and said it couldn’t ‘be done! Boy, was that a blow that killed the | goose that laid the golden egg! Good old army! And now here we are in another disgraceful situation—Indiana ave.
| For years and years “‘we have tried,|
etc, etc—" same song and dance.
complete and the colored boys— 10,000 of them—have arrived, the “avenue” will be ready to receive them—and take their money! No|. cops will be allowed down there. If they come, theyll get beat up and sent back downtown. The clubs will be wide open—just anything you want for a price. Then maybe the army will “take over” again and show our politicians how things can be done, when there is no kick-back in an open .palm—good ole army! : »
|#YOU CAN'T LEGISLATE ME INTO BEING HAPPY”.
By Tom Berling, 2823 N. Olney I would like to ask a. question and get ah answer from any government official, politician, social adjuster or any supporter . of this
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to and from the States. - But Gov. ell Puerto Rican rum given some consideration on ping priorities, moving the empty bottles and {from the mainland to the island, and bringing back full. The reason is that all the tax receipts derived the sale of the rum. go back to the island treasury. For the year ending last June 30, that rum revenue on 16 million cases exported-to the United States amounted to around $20: million. - - , ‘The Tugwell aéministration needs that money to “carry on its program of reforms, says the Puerto Rican I trade ‘council, which is waiting for a showdown on! whether the island government decides to ship the rum, or to ship the sugar to relieve U, S. rationing,
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133,000,000 in U. S. Now
- CENSUS ESTIMATES. U. 8. population at 133 mile lion. . . . Marriages are up, births are up, divorce rate is up, death rate is constant. . + «In the long run, prophesies Dr. Philip M. Hauser, assistant di» rector of census, war will cause marriage rate to drop,
*| birth rate to drop. . . . Number of old maids will
crease during war years. . . . With a possible ha million war casualties in a long war, number of women Ti be ior prob ein 1 revved ettion Ys p! ly 1 to revi ve histo roba. eading yed agitation
People Just Aron's Traveling
THERE IS ONE SPOT in the ‘eastern seaboard which has had plenty of gasoline ‘all summer, and ‘practically no takers. That is the’ Shenandoah Nam tional park, over in Virginia. Though the Shenandoah resort has had almast the heaviest- attendance of all national ‘parks ever since the famous Skyline drive was opened, this year the number of people who have made this two or three-hour drive from Washington has been reduced to practically nothing. . : There were several government concession gas stations along the picturesque route, and at the 3 ginning of the gas rationing period, deliveries to these stations were cut 50 per cent. It was way too much with the tourist trade missing, so most of the station operators have thrown up -their concessions. fe This same thing has happened, with modifications, at practically every one of the national parks in the country, even in areas where there has been no gas rationing. People haven't been taking vacations and they've been saving their tires. Bus line operators, hotel camp operators and other park concessionaires have taken a terrible beating.
A Woman's Viewpoint By. Mrs. Walker | Ferguson
FOR MANY PEOPLE who toi? 7 “dogs, the war means fewer luxur- * jes for pets. Food of all kinds is. higher, and. sometimes -a nation must decide which shall be fed— its beloved brutes or its unloved children, Nowhere. in all the world has’ the dog been more gently cher= ished than in prosperous America. «Recent news from California’ tells of a legacy of $5000 and the use of a large home for life, left to a fox terrier by his mistress. Such women are regarded as eccentric, yet while common sense usually restrains most of them from such extremes of generosity you'll meet the type wherever you go. Since the dog is the most satisfactory of pets, we have witnessed a veritable cult of dog worship, which historians may some day record as a significant phenomenon of our times. It is a fact that many a home which would: not tolerate a child gives warm welcome to a dog. This attitude has always Seamed. to me a sign of ‘social decadence.
Choose: The Children or Dogs!
YET MY DOG-ADORING friends say it it - ‘proves Americans to be creatures of excessive virtue. Theh they quote the hackneyed eulogy written ky the late Senator Vest, who attained a sort of . bee caused he “timed” his poem to meet a nation’s. ‘mood, Today it seems the senator-may have erred in his arrangement of words. “Man is dog’s best friend ‘But now with man fighting a global war, thousands of pampered pooches must alter: their standard of - living, and if we feed the starving of Europe after the .war is over, it’s a dead. certainty that many ‘dogs will .go on slimmer rations. Indeed we may have to decide between the luxu of keeping a dog and the necessity of. providing. 1 for a child. : I've always been in favor of giving babies priority privileges, and I feel now more than ever that part of our woe today may be due to the fact that some of our best people thought too much about the ‘dogs of the rich and not Snough about. “She Shildren of Wh the /
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