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date. His survey of the military situation is masterly. Hig mie of the home front he is less frank, ns because his civilian staff is not working as smooths the military. He is more optimistic than realistic passing over the manpower muddle reach tion schedules in heavy planes. But, without akes have been made—a rare Roosevelt confession. In his military review his purpose is to prove that our gratifying advances have not brought us within sight of victory, that over-confidence at this critical stage can be disastrous: “1 state only a blunt fact when I tell the congress that we are still a long, long way from ultimate victory in any major theater of war.” bier "To drive this home to the public, to production workers and to congress, for the first time he emphasizes our military risks and our “severe losses of men and materials.” This grim note should sober wp the country, which has been on another spree of wishful thinking about peace before : . 00 s 0 = WITH justified pride he recounts the achievements of our heroic force in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. But, he adds: “We face 3 hard and costly fight up through Italy — and a major job of organizing our positions before we can take advantage of them.” He is lyric in his description of the daring exploits of pur airmen over western -Europe and Germany. He is sornful of that genius of intuitive military blunders who built an impregnable fortress of Europe, “but neglected to ‘provide that fortress with a roof.” nim "His tribute to Russia is unstinted: “Every American is thrilled by the sledge-hammer blows delivered again the Nazi aggressors by the Russian armies . . . (they) have forced the greatest military reversal since Napoleon's retreat in 1812” He also cites the aid by the western-allies, whose Mediferranean campaigns and air offensives over Europe have . engaged large numbers of Nazi planes and held many Ger"man ground divisions which otherwise would have fought on the sagging eastern front. Likewise in the Pacific: Though Gen. MacArthur has yelieved the immediate threat to Australia, though he and ‘Adm. Nimit# are forcing back the Japs from the North and South Pacific, ough more American help is. flowing, still holds strong positions on an

= a 5 0» } ® 8» THIS realism does not mean that our commander-in-chief * is down-hearted. On the contrary, he is so confident "out armed forces and our home front will be equal to the : increased demands of the future that he reveals the general lines of allied strategy. "In addition to the Burma offensive, the allies will in‘crease the bombing of Europe from all directions, including air bases we will take in Italy. Plans are already complete, ith definite times and places, for other landings on the "continent of Europe and elsewhere.” And the Russian § campaigr will move “toward: the invasion of Germany rw

: Finally, the president clears up a few of the many mncertainties regarding the peace settlement. Not only fier and the Nazis must go, and fascism in all forms, but also “the Prussian military clique” and the Tokyo milifarists. Japan never again will have authority over manfates, or lands stolen from China and others, We seek t international relationships of justice and friendto prevent aggression, he says. Perhaps he will soon be more specific regarding these t-war plans. He should be.

HY NOT A SIMPLE INCOME TAX? MRDINARY taxpayers should feel a little better about their intellectual capacities after reading of Rep. Doughs confession that he had to employ the services of an ert to make his Sept. 15 declaration of estimated income. The North Carolina congressman is chairman of the ‘ways and means committee, which drafts the tax s. And if he couldn't make heads or tails of the income forms, it is not surprising that the rest of us were n too. :

‘Mr. Doughton has now joined with Chairman George | senate finance committee in insisting that the in ix be simplified. That issue is certain to be popumost of us, not schooled in the intricacies of tax ving forgotten about all of the mathematics we gmed in school except simple arithmetic, the actual h tax money is less painful than the mental if filling out the complex tax forms according to and regulations. Especially since we have to do

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THE CHAIRMAN of Curran’s draft board, local board 18, is the Rev. Dr. Francis K. Shepherd, &

ly essential” to the operation of the union, that the union was essential to the war effort and that Curran therefore was indispensable.

rine, and ‘has so effectively obstructed the work of conscientious officers and civilian officials in the government service, that they have given in all the way down the line in order to keep the ships sailing. Curran and the Communist penetration have had the help, however, of some highly placed officials of

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the national maritime commission, an official gove ernment agency. A number of fellow-travelers have planted themselves in influential positfons and Curran’s transmission belt has received valuable recognition and even praise.

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DR.. SHEPHERD may not know all this, but a man in. his. position should know. it. and he should be removed. This party-line organization of Curran’s, from the nature of its name and by-the exercise of the prestige and power conferred on it by Communist sympathizers in the government, fis: able to carry on before the public a plausible pretense that it speaks for the merchant sailors. The truth is that it is held in low repute by real unionists and even by the real rough and tumble revolutionaries of the old Trotsky school. ~ :

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (U, P,).~Officlals of the “National Maritime union, contesting the 1-A draft classification of their president, Joseph Curran, maintained today that he was essential to the war effort. Curran, previously deferred, was reclassified 1-A yesterday,

The chiiracter #hich permitted Curran to pose for pictures in New York as a South Street salt, while real sailors were risking and losing their lives on the

commanded little respect hitherto. It will command less now that he admits that he chose the traditional

‘vacation session to go to sea, to escape “adverse

weathér ” Real sallors are not afraid of seasickness. An estimate of Curran was published in a recent

organ of the old I. W. W,, discussing Curran's attempt to suppress revelations concerning him and the N. M. U. In these dispatches, the Industrial Worker sdid an old-time seaman in New York made a check along the line of Curran’s patrols around the premises of the New York World-Telegram, challenged 13 of them, and found that five were department store workers, two were paid officials of unions controlied by the Communists and one was an employee of the Communist organ, The Daily Worker. Of the other four, one was a tugboat man, two were sallors who had “scabbed” a seaman’s strike, and only one was a genuine, active merchant sailor.

Veterans of Jersey Port

“IF HIS OBSERVATIONS of the 12 hold valid for the remainder of the picket line” the I. W. W. paper-.said, “it means that the seafaring. experience of 75 per cent of these Nazis amounts to New Jersey as passengers.” The Trotsky revolutionists always identify Stalin Communists as Nazis. “Yet,” the editorial continues, “these people are giving sll decent marine transport workers a black eye with all union men throughout the world, “The purpose of the picket line is a direct blow at everything the union man holds dear . . . “He (Pegler) could not expose union corruption and blackguardism if none existed. The fault lies not in Pegler's comment on the facts, but in the facts themselves . . . “We know the N. M. U. of old. We are aware that the rottenness or corruption was within it from the very beginning . + “Issuing cards to Union Square floozies and calling them stewardesses; issuing cards to unemployed garment workers and vast hordes of subway sailors, the ComRats packed every sank and file meeting, and machined their stooges into office.”

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“TIME TO BEGIN TO LEARN AND REASON" By Mary F. Wright, 120 Miley ave. 1 am wondering how: many Forum writers ever wrote a senator or representative in Washington on bills that affect every person in America? : If you will, learn the truth about the manpower shortage and the bill No, 8666. This bill would not only destroy our American republic as a sovereign nation, hut would

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the men between the age of 18 to 65, and the women between the age of 18 to 50 regimented. This bill would give power to the president]. to shift groups of people to hreak up unions or for political benefits to defeat groups of people. It

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“Are Americans on the home front so deep in selfishness and complacency that they will give children for war to save themselves? Children cant vote; they can't mairy: they can’t even get a regular driver's license for the family car, Their strength should be absorbed In healthy growth—not bearing bur-

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war. They did not develop the political mess that plunged us into war. Now

Side Glances-By Galbraith

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