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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943

THE CHURCHILL-ROOSEVELT MEETING

ME CHURCHILL'S visit to the president within less than four months of their Casablanca meeting, and so soon after Mr. Eden's trip, is further evidence of the close relationship between the two governments. Nothing is more important than that for winning the war and the peace. So this Churchill-Roosevelt conference, after the liberation of Africa and before the battle for Europe, is a natural. Not that they and their experts are meeting to arrange a summer invasion of Europe. Invasions are planned months ahead. Presumably summer preparations are now far advanced, and require only last-minute touches and followthrough plans for the autumn. But there are immediate problems of general policy pressing on the president and prime minister, some of which require an agreement, with Stalin and perhaps a meeting with him. An allied high command is needed. There is urgent | need of a joint policy along Atlantic charter lines regarding | the French, Polish, Yugoslav, Finnish and Near East disputes—and now regarding Italy. The coming united nations food and economic conferences underline demands of the smaller allies for representation on an allied council. Also something must be done quickly for desperate China. The Pacific cannot be neglected any longer. So. in many ways, this fifth Churchill-Roosevelt session may be the hardest. May it also be the most successful.

$4,500,000,000 MORE REVENUE

T the start of this congressional session, President Roosevelt advised that “not less than $16,000,000,000 of additional funds” should be provided by taxation. Congressional tax leaders wisely decided that, before guch a heavy burden could be added, taxpaying would have to be placed on a pay-as-you-go basis. The months that have elapsed since have been devoted to trying to establish such a basis. That goal is now in sight, with the senate finance committee’s approval of a measure which follows closely the original Ruml plan.

The need for a switchover from pay-after-you-have- | spent to pay-as-you-go was emphasized in testimony before the senate committee— | Chairman George: “If you are to get $16,000,000,000 | more money out of the taxpayers, take it out of the stream | of earnings or of income, you have got to get the most of the taxpavers current or they cannot stand it” Treasury Counsel Paul: “I agree with you. ... We have | got to have a current tax collection system if we are going | to run along even with our present tax structure, not to | mention increasing our taxes substantially.” =

= = NE good feature of the Ruml plan, as modified by the | senate committee, is that it would automatically in- | crease revenues this year by about 24.500,000,000—83,000,- | 000.000 by changing the assessment base from 1942 incomes | to 1942 or 1943 incomes, whichever is higher, and the other | 21.500.000.000 from extra stiff levies on the “windfalls” of | wartime profits. So if congress adopts the senate committee’s hill, it will be already well on its way to accomplishing the president’s objective of obtaining $16,000,000,000 additional revenue. It will have provided £4,500,000,000 additional without any increase in tax rates. And by ridding them of overhanging tax debt on last year’s income, it will hav placed taxpayers in a position where they can better stand the imposition of $11,500,000,000 in new taxes, The senate committee’s version of the Ruml plan will accomplish three things, all desirable: It will get rid of income tax debt, and make possible a program of scientific, all-out war taxation. It will provide more revenue for the treasury, because no taxpaver will pay less and many will pay more. It will make wartime profiteering impossible through guper taxes on windfalls. The bill should pass. It probably will,

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BATTLE OF THE CAUCASUS UR rapid victories on the Tunis-Bizerte front, and talk of an imminent thrust at the axis’ soft underbelly, should not obscure the giant battle for the Caucasian gateway. Much depends on it. Its importance is such that the Germans are pouring in vast reinforceménts. They went short of airpower in Northwest Africa, while they blackened the Novorossisk gkies with planes. Unless the Russians win this battle, Hitler will remain in position for ancther summer offensive, threatening Soviet oil fields and the Middle East. Moreover, as long as Hitler refains this strategic spur into the Caucasus he can protect his own and threaten the Russian flank in the coming battles for the Ukraine. These stakes explain the fury of the fighting around Novorossisk. $ & 2 8 4 & \ HATEVER happens in the Mediterranean and in Western Europe this summer in the way of allied invasions, the Russian front will remain the longest and largest. Indeed, the hope of opening a second European front starts with the assumption that the Soviet army can continue to tie up at least two-thirds of Hitler's military power. This explains the paradox of the western allies diverting huge supplies to the distant Russian front at the very moment they are trying to husband planes and equipment for hazardous invasions of the European fortress.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 12— Senator Tom Connally’s so-called anti-strike bill has been cleveriy and deceptively ballyhooed as a reluctant concession to reform by the New Deal. It is nothing of the kind, but a fake. Its ostensible purpose is to authorize the president to seize any plant producing materials which may be useful for the national defense when a strike or other labor disturbance interrupts production. The insincerity and fakery are apparent right there, for Connally’s bill adds nothing to presidential powers already assured. These powers whether legal or not—and their legality has not been tested—have been exercised repeatedly ere now. For example, the president took over the North American Aviation plant near Los Angeles when Communist saboteurs detailed by the United Automotive Workers of the C. I. O. organized mobs to beat up American workers going to and from the job.

Connally Bill Futile

LEST IT be thought’ that in calling these fifth columnists Communist saboteurs, I am expressing only my own opinion, let me recall that both the president and Robert Jackson, then the attorney general, put a finger on the Communist inspiration and that Jackson said further, in substance, that the Communists, far from desiring to settle labor troubles, consistently try to aggravate them. In another case the government took over a shipyard where no dispute existed between workers and employer. The dispute lay between an independent element of workers, who wanted to retain their independence, and the union.

Contrary to the stated purpose of the Wagner act |,

to permit workers to select their own bargaining

agents, the government imposed a modified closed shop by way of settling the trouble and pointedly re- | frained from interfering with union terrorism against

the workers who preferred to remain independent.

Many other mores or less similar seizures could be

cited, but these will show that Connally’s bill offers no new powers to the president,

Invites Labor Trouble

HIDDEN, HOWEVER, in Connally’s proposal is a provision, possibly unintentional, which invites Communists and other unjoneers to kick up labor troubles over petty and utterly false issues so that the government will have to take over the plants where they occur. The eventual seizure and operation of all private property by the central government is a prime objective of the Communists. A loafer, fired for stalling in the washroom, an agent provocateur dismissed for spoiling material, nagging his fellow workers or smoking out of bounds or a fist fight between a patriotic American and a Communist heckler may become an “issue” and cause a “labor disturbance” of sufficient size to cause the seizure of a plant. Why Connally, a Texan, regardless of his patriotic submission to European ideas transmitted through the White House, an old-style American at heart, should wish to open such opportunities for the Communists is something that is known only to the senBites, himself. Anyway, there it is, written into the 111.

‘Should Be Thrown Away’

IF CONNALLY had honestly desired to take a hand in reform, many obvious proposals awaited his indorsement. It is no punishment to a union to In that case, the owners of the plant may be punished for the acts of the unioneers. But Connally ignored every sound and honest idea that has been presented to supervise union elections and strike votes, to limit fees, dues and assessments, to compel accounting of funds, to forbid jurisdictional strikes, highway robbery and the boycott of innocent victims, to forbid political contributions, to protect workers from the brutality and coercion of such traitors as the president and Jackson discerned at North American, and to consolidate all the confusion of a half dozen government agencies and conduct labor relations in decency and law and not by whim or executive prejudice. The plain purpose of Connally’s bill is to create an impression that a great-hearted, patient, stalwart American at last has taken a stand against his erring friends in the New Deal and thus create a little political credit for Senator Connally back home in Texas. The bill isn’t worth debating and should be thrown away without comment,

In Washington

‘By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, May 12.—One of the government's latest ideas to help win the war, complete with a “collaborator” in charge instead of a mere “co-ordinator” and with a lot of other four-dollar words thrown in for good measure, is a program to decrease the infant mortality of chickens. Don’t laugh. This is the slaughter of baby pigs program in reverse and it makes sense. While you go you carefree way about your daily affairs, all unbeknownst and without ever a tear shed in their memory, millions of baby chicks die ever day. Some of these baby chicks just starve to death because they never learn to eat. Others get germs, bugs, parasites and worms and die horrible deaths of polysyllabic diseases. Some of the poultry specialists at the department of agriculture figured that if the present terrible infant mortality rates among baby chicks could be reduced just 5 per cent there might be 100 million more pounds of chicken to eat, and 200 million dozen more eggs to fry. That would mean from three to four more chicken dinners and over a dozen more eggs for every man, woman and child in the country per year. Considering the meat scarcity, that's

How to Raise More Chickens

THE RESULT is this new government program to do something constructive about lengthen the lives of all these poor little baby chicks. R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of animal industry

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picked a nice-looking young feller Carpenter— Dr. Carpenter, if you please—to charge of the campaign. Dr Sapentet is Known as a Poultry Pastolcgist he also has. lug around the title of “collaborator in poultry viability.” Viability means livability. If you are going in for a little plain or fancy poultry raising to eke out your food supplies this year, you might be interested in some of the steps to decrease this chicken death rate. Some of them, like numbers six and seven, even sound all right to try on the children: . 1. Buy only quality chicks. 2. Disinfect brooders and clean hen houses, and move to clean ground for each new brood. 3. Protect feed and water containers. 4. Use a deep, highly absorbent litter and change the litter Yess frequently. 5. Utilize sunshine and green grass. 6. Protect from Separate sexes at an early age. chicks daily, and don't let the get : pi w

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“FARMERS DO WELL TO HAVE 8120 LEFT” Br Maude Servies, 2387 Prospect st. Good luck to Rep. Jennings, may he find what the trouble is. No one else has. Evidently Ray D. Johnton, project director, and H. L. Ab-

| bott, leave officer for the Japs at

McGehee, Ark., seem to be afraid the American farmer will mistreat the Jap, make him work long hours or perhaps not provide him with a proper place to live or food good enough for him to eat. Our boys spend their time in foxholes, long hours without rest, being thankful for one good warm meal a day and being paid a scldier's wage, which is certainly not $120 a month. The American farm boy would gladly be doing this farm work today, were it not for the Japs and Germans. Many farmers, after paying their taxes, do well to have $120 left. They don’t quit tilling the soil or wait te find out what they are going te be paid for what they pro-

duce. The Japs might be better than] these pencil pushers who ought to| have to trade places with one of] Gen. MacArthur's men or face the Germans in North Africa, but not better than our farmers and soldiers.

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“JEFFERSON HAD FAITH IN THE MASSES" By Marion Priest, 1106 Castle ave. It is, it seems, an unusual paradox, when among the sincere, there are thousands, and perhaps | millions, who make a farce of re-| vering Jefferson, one of our greatest men, when in reality they stand

and work for the opposite for which he stood. In the recent celebrations in Washington, there were undoubtedly many silk-hat politicians who acted on the surface as though they respected and admired this great idol of the masses. Jefferson was the first great leader of the common people. He, at that time, headed the Republican party which afterwards became the Democratic party. The Federalist party, the other party of that time, believed in the inability of the common people to rule, and was composed of the most successful and intellectuals of the time. Jefferson, having confidence in the ability of the common people to rule, believed, among other things, in government economy and simplicity. He was ridiculed by many for his careless dress, often appearing in

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public in his stocking efeet. He assumed that a man’s worth did not depend on his dress, but what went on in his head and heart. He was our first proof that the masses can bring as great men, and often more conscientious men, to power as can the “upper class.” There can be little doubt that, had he lived today, he would have been labeled a Communist. I wonder where the “Martin, Barton and Fish” were during the recent celebration. They were probably in the midst of the celebration aceclaiming the great man who stood for the opposite te which they subscribe. If spirits can look down on earth, and understand what is going on, Jefferson must have had a very disgusting day while the memorial was being dedieated. . . . I would like to have the chance] to say to these men face to face]

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“Jf you revere this man for what] he stood for, why do you fight so ruthlessly for the opposite?” Jefferson was not a union man, there were no such things. But he] had faith in the masses. He be-| lieved in actual democratic government, and not sham democracy, where congressmen act like puppets, manipulated by strings, which are pulled by farm blocs and other powerful minority groups. He had confidence that the masses knew enough to actually rule, and he transferred these ideas to the preamble to the constitution: “We, the people, etc., do ordain and establish this constitution.” Thank goodness, there are still a few who still think and believe these things which Jefferson stood for. And like “Abou Ben Adam,” may his tribe increase.

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® =» “BUSSES PACKED, SMOKING DANGEROUS”

By Mrs. I. C. Alderton, 1509 S. Belmont ave.

As I was returning from Marion, Ind, Sunday on one of the Greyhound bussss I was confronted with | a situation which might have proved to be a serious one. These days of travel the busses are packed to the limit, and with a larger number of people smoking,

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‘| to make “silly noises” and “scuffle.”

the traveling in busses is not very pleasant and is becoming a more dangerous one. Two young men boarded the bus between Marion and Indianapolis and were seated in front of me. I was seated in.the rear of the bus, but not by choice, It was the only seat I could find. These boys immediately lighted up their cigarets and at the same time proceeded to look at a funny paper. One of these boys was very varelessly handling his cigaret along the edge of his paper, and I sat there nervously watching what might happen. And surely enough in a very few seconds the paver caught fire from the cigaret, and I immediately, grabbed for the paper and smothered out the burning portion. This could have been a very serious situation. The bus was packed and people standing, and this boy probably wouldn't have realized that he was setting the paper afire until it would have had a good start, but I was, of course, watching him closely and grabbed at it and put it out immediately. Something should be done to prohibit smoking in the busses, espe-

cially now since travel is so con-|

gested and the number of people smoking in a bus makes it suffocating to babies and people with delivate throats. The danger of smok-

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943,

Wage Quiz

By Fred W. Perkins

WASHINGTON, May 12-—~The Hon. James F. Byrnes, known to his former senate and supreme court associates as “Jimmy,” is this week's standout choice to be on somekody’s quiz program. He has a lot of questions to answer, all dealing with kinks in the government's program of trying to keep wages and salaries down, as well as prices. From the new White House wing where Mr. Byrnes and his.corps of assistants are quartered come promises that before next week-end they will try through official pronouncements to untangle many puzzles resulting from presidential executive orders under which Mr. Byrnes is operating as national economic stabilization director. The national war labor hoard, which is concerned with wages, has put several questions to Mr. Byrnes, and so has the internal revenue division of the treasury department, which has been given the job of preventing undue increases in salaries. The dividing line between wages and salaries is roughly $5000 pay per year, but that is not final.

Thousands of Cases Pending

THE INTERNAL revenue bureau, for example, has received hundreds of requests for information on how to meet situations in which wages of subordinate em= ployees now exceed the salaries of their foremen. The war labor board has thousands of oases in which raises in pay are sought for individuals not

been deciding wage questions. Both agencies are hoping that Mr. Byrnes will elucidate within the next few days—either by giving specific rulings under the executive orders, or by giving the agencies final and complete authority to make interpretations. The revenue bureau and WLB have been taking the rap for failure of a large number of persons to get a raise from promotions or change of duties,

Safe to Raise Wages—'But'

UNTIL MR. BYRNES speaks, the war labor hoard and the internal revenue bureau are freezing all official opinions on raises for individual earners of wages and salaries. Off -the-cuff opinions are being given to employers that they probably will be safe if they go ahead with raises they think justified on the basis of previous policies—but most of the recipients of this unofficial advice are afraid that eventually they might be hauled up to pay a fine or go to jail. Most of the revenue bureau's frozen cases now concern supervisory employees not within the jurisdiction of the war labor board. Most of WLB's cases are those of wage earners not ‘subject to its group treatment. When problems of these workers are decided they may be recompensed retroactively.

Only Mr. Byrnes Can Answer

OTHER QUESTIONS before Mr. Byrnes’ office include such a puzzler as one from WLB on granting of equal pay to women for work equal to that of men, and removal of inequalities between workers doing approx« imately the same work in the same industrial plant, The confusion arises from a section of the president's executive order No. 9328, of April 8, conferring supervision over wages and salaries to the war labor board and the internal revenue bureau and stating they are not to be prevented, “subject to the general policies and directives of the economic stabilization director, from authorizing reasonable adjustments of wages and salaries” in certain cases not likely to encourage inflation. The important word in the quoted section is “reasonable.” ‘What is “reasonable?” WLB and the internal revenué bureau want that question answered pefore they begin to interpret. They are hoping it i will be through authority to approve wage and salary increases in harmony with previous practices of the business concern involved.

ing in the busses alone should

hibit smoking in the busses. There are a few people in the world vet today who can get along | without cigarats and would be much happier if we didn't have to be choked to death with cigaret smoke in public places.

2 ” ” “THINK THEY ARE BIGGER THAN THEIR BOSS” By Gertie Armstrong, 615 E. 10th st. It is really disgusting the way our public servants think they are bigger than their boss, the people. Who are they, that they should presume to tell us what we should wear, what we can eat, how much we may travel, and so on?

It seems they are trying to imitate Hitler and are trying to pattern after the country we are fighting by thinking they can dictate to us. I also wish to refer to the wearing of slacks. If those who criticize the war worker for wearing slacks would try doing even half as much to help win this war as the ones who wear the slacks are doing, we could get moré done and perhaps bring this war to an end quicker.

” = = “WOULD YOU KEEP CHILDREN UNDER LOCK AND KEY?” By Mrs. H, F., Indianapolis My dear Ruth Taggart: It's just too bad the “punks” are always where vou go. I suppose you were never young, although judging from the tone of your letter, it probably has been too far back for you to remember. You say parents let them go to get them off their hands. Have you ever tried to keep a healthy, normal boy or girl in your sight eonstantly? ... Kids just aren't made to be seen and not heard. Every normal child goes through a certain period, usually around the high school age, where they are more demonstrative. I would rather see a rowdy boy or girl than a frowning, disapproving old sourpuss. You say something had better be done. What would you suggest? Keeping all kids under lock and key? That's about the only way you'll stop kids from acting normal, like “punks” as you and Mr. L.

if the “punks” are so repulsive to you, I suggest you stay away from where they go, and if they go “everywhere” may I recommend the nearest publi¢ library for some good pooks to spend a nice, quiet evening alone where no “punks” are around

DAILY THOUGHTS If any man have ears to hear,

By Ruth Millett

IN SPITE of the faet that women war workers are easier to supervise than men--it's difficult to find men who understand how to handle them. That is what the personnel di rector of one large company in war production said at a recent conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, He went on to explain that it is impossible to order a woman to do anything but that she will work her fingers off for a man she likes if he asks her, instead of telling her, to do a job. It isn’t surprising that war plants are finding out that men don’t know how fo handle women. Men simply have never made any effort to under stand women and to find out what they are really like. It has always been so much easier to assume that they are brainless, silly creatures who can’t be under-

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80 THROUGH the ages the understanding has com® the other way. Women have made it their business to understand men—and men have shrugged off women’s ideas and opinions and idiosyncrasies with the old “What will women do next?” comment, | Although. judging by the mail I receive, As many of more men than women réad my columne=it is sur > prising how many men feel that they must explain and apologize for reading a column of ment written by a woman. Letter after letter trom men begins: “I suppose you are surprised to hear that a man reads your column” or "As a rule 1 wouldn't dream of reading a woman's column, but=" Now why shouldn't men read what women writeif for no other reason than to find out how they think? No woman would dream of saying, “As & rule I never read anything written by a man. Won't it be a joke if the war forges men to learn something about women? $

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MUSSOLINI of the Americans | plenty of reason to whoop it up,

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