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i tic, during its siakiona) convention here, to the current uor situation in Indiana. As Noble Reed pointed out yesterday, whisky supplies reaching Indiana have been cut to about one-half of normal because of war needs for alcohol. And immediately black “ fnarkets and bootleggers flourish and whisky shipments ‘begin to change hands at the point .of guns. This looks dangerously like the beginnings of the sordid sequence that ensued when we had national prohibition by constitutional amendment, and which, more than any other one factor, led to eventual repeal of that amendment. Supplies were less than demand, a market willing to pay fantastic prices was waiting, and more than a decade of lurid crime and unbélievable political corruption was a direct result. | committee the story of his life.

re unequal to apparent demand, | ~~ At this, Posner, apparently uneasy, replied that | Today supplies again 3 eq pp I. his story would, indeed, be very interesting but that

“and a market again exists which seems willing to pay high |,’ yn juene it would not have anything to do with prices. Instead of letting prices seek their own level, OPA | the investigation. has undertaken to hold them approximately. to pre-war | levels, for reasons only an OPA theorist could understand. So already an estimated one-half of all the whisky that enters this state flows directly into black markets and bootleg channels, where the state loses all control of its distribution and much of the revenue from its sale, and a crime wave that was too bigto- be handled back in the ' twenties is right on our doorstep again.

“definitely a force in had “risen to the top.” He then. read. an publication Aero Notes Maas of Minnesota, who had taken ave house to be at Guadalcanal as a marine corps officer and said: “Rant and rave, Congressman Maas. We in the shop will decide and we alone, who our president is. and will be. You can have your Rickenbackers, . will have our De Lorenzoes.”

Story of His Life

“ANY TIME, 21,000 people prefer any individual to Eddie Rickenbacker, that man must have some“thing,” Mr. Hebert said, and asked him to teil the

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are modest about it.” Warily, then, the unioneer sketched his beginnings, revealed that he had joined both the C. 1. O, and A. P, of L. unions, playing safe to keep his job no matter which one won the election and sald with preening mock-modesty: “I believe that what you call my remarkable rise to the adulation of 20,000 men is not entirely justified.” After much more of this {.and some further parley by Mr. Hebert, the congress-

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man suddenly moved in-and, in a TG SEP} knocked him for a loop.

Half a Dozen Others

“WHAT IS YOUR real name, Mr. De Lorenzo?” he asked. When the witness admitted that he had | used De nso, Posner, Harris, “and half a dozen others as they came in handy,” Mr, Hebert tore him apart and fed him his own gory chunks, After. that the subcommittee of the house naval affairs com-mittéagot-one of the most despicable stories in the entire sordid record of vicious unioneering in this war. The man admitted that he was a liar by choice

Before the Prohibition party—or any other group— _. can make much headway i in the direction of state or national prohibition again, it must convince the voters that it has ~ found the answer to this problem.

_ HITLER 1S HYSTERICAL

- YWHHIN the past four days the heads.of four major : belligerents have spoken. The public has had this -.;unusual opportunity to contrast the words and attitudes of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin with those of Hitler. The - hing that impressed us most was not so much what was “said as how—the allied leaders’ calm soniddsee compared

any criticism of the Brewster management for failure to produce navy planes, even though the management does seem to have been awful at times, because his | union's’ contract with th “the firm’ left the inanagement : emt _no_authority over its own work and placed the final isnot’ only. that Germany. is. now. in, retreat—the. | authority in the _hands of a man whose record was 90

lies themselves were on the ‘defensive a long time. But, | €00d, even under Gath, meaning himself. Bb nstead of being sobered and steadied by adversity, Hitler | | Admits Trial Charges ~ rows more hysterical.

"MR. HEBERT made him admit that workers® who There is something obscene in the yammering of this | | refused to strike were tried on charges by his union,

srrorist who cannot take it. He whimpers: “What I | thas some of them were fined $50 for this, and one ersonally have had to go through, no one can imagine.” | bed ALLL Sh Bg Juspended tor w le whines that he and his Nazis have it harder now even | the Washington Post, the reporter who broke the aan when they were infprisoned in 1923: “Our sorrows SE, rote that the flight inspector had a plane in “hen were smaller than those that are pressing on us| (0 Sl A the Ime A5C refused to desert his reday.” With shrill fright. he shouts that he is not afraid. | “Called before the board,” Mrs. Meyer wrote, “he - In one pathological passage he unconsciously ‘reveals | | ia on fone Janguage iat he siuliny leave his e air,” was charged w “unbecomhat he is haunted not “only by military defeat but by the | ine" janguage” and for: that was ene nee sar of insanity: “You may rest assured that, although | days although be was classified as irreplaceable, " verything is possible. inthis world, - it is absolutely im--| Unless the department of justice proceeds against

Posne f ossible that 1 should tose my reason or have a nervous | | fe ome Su faddeni, oi N ig ig reakdown. Nothing can hit me.”

| and he cannot be removed. His actions all come under ® . ”. » . »

| the head of “legitimate union activity” and the labor | laws have been carefully designed so that his Yi : HOWEVER MUCH the German people have been taken | | character cannot ‘be held against him or even = aby this creature in the past, certainly they must begin | questioned. “And, although he is only 35 years old, 1» wonder about their precious leader when he goes on i i occupational deferment in the gant 43 « . . 1 ke that—and in publie, too. Suiog. so many Germans are | PE an

= eakening, he has to curse “If the German people | We the People

- espair, they will-deserve no better than they get. If they 40 ‘pair, I will not be sorry for them if God-lets them. down.” —— After-such-evidence-of Hitler panic; -it-it=all too-easy+ or us to count on quick victory and to forget that he stiil By Ruth Millet asx personal army of a million or two besides 400 divisions | z 4 ; ; the front. | © - SOME STORE Owners, espeSo we need thie Churchill warning: “We should, how- clally in small towns and neighder, be foolish and blameworthy if we allowed our plans, Soren Shire, A om ii ! action to be based on the prospects of an early collapse | ; ying ! Germany. Unless some hippy event occurs on which | ey aren't actually rude to e have no right to count, 1944 will see the greatest sacri- | ie Sanger oad 4 looking ze of life by the British and Americans . . . battles far | rger than Waterloo and Gettysburg will be fought.”

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item, they. make ¢racks.about her the minute she is out of the. store. “Never saw her before in> wy : * the store owner will say as { though, it is a hin "for a customer to try to buy

- GALLANT AMERICAN EAGLE 5" the things she éeds.

"F these were other times, the return of Secretary Hull | quae antagonism toward thé “riew” or “one-time” from Moscow should certainly occasion a gr eat popular | customer has been growing by leaps and bounds ever debration -by way of welcome to the man whom Mr, | Since America first began to feel shortages. __hurchill has just saluted so aptly as “that gallant Amer- Expects Cool Treatment ~ an Eagle who flew so far on strong wings.” I mri © Mr. Hull's countrymen not only admire and respect him | S $0 strong now (hel SURE Ton 4 swarot tei op the solid a plishments of his. | , in a store where one is not known is almost as emby th coom Of -his- long career, NOW | parrassing .as going to a bank to borrow money, «owned by the success of the Moscow meeting. They also | | The customer knows she will be treated coolly— ave for him ‘a warm’ affection, inspired by his rugged | unless, of course, she is & “regular customer,” and seadfastness of character—and perhaps to some extent by | that if she does get what lie wants it will be handed ie accumulating legends about the homely and salty qual- | over grudgingly.

camera film, or some other scarce

So today's cash customer, unless she is in a store y of his private diction when persons or events offend him. “Could you possibly let me have . . .?” she nowadays -are of necessity . kept secret. It would be | + After all, the man who owns the store is making to encourage it anyway. | he looking down his nose at ber? And if he nasn't 4 State who formerly served with great distinction | when she says “Could you possibly let me have . . .?"

where she can call the owner or clerk by name, feels Mr, Hull merits a national reception—vast parade, | She as to apologize for wanting to do r tape and all. But the departures and arrivals of states- | and yet all the while she is being apologetic, ihe 1s yom boiling mad inside. impossible to arrange such a to-do on the spur | ; | his living ny selling goods isn’t he? And if he ‘has moment. And Mr. Hull, being } Mr. Hull, Would not be | the goods and she is willing to pay his price, why is | suggestion of William Philip Simms that congress, | 1 8004s. why can't. he manage to sound sorry, inthe people, give an official reception to the secre- | RE By and “senate—is Worthy of attention at the ued of o as Rughi-10rvan SE

that didn’t make her feel she wus begging when wanted to buy.

To the Point—

tions committee is to be congratulat- . approve a request for $15,000 by the et mania vit ou wil do

“WHO RECEIVED

the line on inflation, namely force labor to abide by the little steel formula. Labor, in my humble opin-

crease in the cost of living: plus

{and bullt gp: for: himself a cliaracter which- precluded | people will: ‘argue. otherwise, would

| $1.25- per; ton on _my purchase of

{damned dumb to understand” will | have to seek new material for thelr, “ferackpot

If merchants knew just how Mrs. America feels Ta ike |

$125 PER TON OF COAL?” By William Tayler, Bex 100 Morgantown ~ ‘We hear the familiar cry of hold

fon, if we fairly admit the in-!.

additional income tax rate, has held less than the: little steel formula would allow. Granting that some

some “know it all” please answer this question fairly? Who got my

coal? Sih Year vy soakoost #7 pet ton

of coal cost $850 delivered. Upon inquiry the dealer opened his books

was 25 cents over last year, per ton. The miner fever recsived the $1.25. The railroad employees never received the $1.25. Dear old mother earth was not the receiver of such glad tidings. Please would those attacking abr tell me who received my 5 25 per ton of coal? ©

“AMERICAN PEOPLE BECOMING AROUSED” By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis

. The political pendylum, having!

tutelage of socialistic minded New Dealers; is now back to the right and center of American common sense conservatism, or Americanism! . Too long we have been used as guinea pigs for left wing, political, revolutionary experimenters! The |,

radicals, “Americans were “too

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States are fed up with totalitarian

{schemes to reduce us to a state of

involuntary servitude, war or no war; and, the correct interpretation of the recent Republican sweep on| the political front is that the American people are bitterly antiNew Deal and pro-American!

that which we have lost. We want to stil consider the United States! God's. country, the land of indi-!

litical persecution.

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ism! That is why millions of hon< est, patriotic Democrats are voting|, ‘the. Republican ticket—to drive the New Deal Socialists from the temple of ‘American democracy! The American people are becoming aroused and aware of the irresponsible squandering - of their} substance and tampering with our economic and political freedom, The Republican party should be able to elect our next president easily, not just because their pres-

_{idential nominee is considered a

vote getter, but because the Amer{ican people. want to slap the New Deal down! Brother, we the people are agin it! So let the Republican party be careful that it doesn't let any socialist-minded “Trojan horse” candidate blitz his way to the head of their ticket! In this dark hour of political |erisis in the world, our American heritage and future destiny will be

Tugwells, Hopkins, Hendersons, and | safe only in the hands of whole-

who, hearted Americans! Let both the Democrats and Re- | pu Lod be prayerful and careful .LAD=| experiments a Put nothing but true and | _ We the people of .the United tried Americans on guard!

in their choice of

- oo » | “BASIC ENGLISH A FOOLISH IDEA”

{By W. H. Richards, 197 E. New York st.

Of all the foolish ideas promul-

! gated by Churchill and seconded by

Yes, sir, we want to keep what] | Roosevelt, the proposition to make liberty we have left and win back basic English of 850 words the uni-

versal language is the most absurd. | First of all there is prejudice in: all countries in favor of the native having any other nation making its own language the bridge between

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nations that is now such a crying need. Secondly, 850 words would be but a beginning in learning English and utterly inadequate for the expres-: sion ‘of thought and more so in understanding the language as spoken -by English speaking people. What person knowing only that meager number of words tould read an artitle in any of our Newspapers. and get any sense out of it? He would find half the words used beI had read that the average English speaking person uses not more than 700-or-800 words, and just for euriosity I took a*book of 404 pages written. by Aman man. without, Lollege “| education, throtigh Tt noting the words by The author had used 6313 ‘words, not counting some that were spelled alike but with differént meaning, as separate to segregate and separate the adjective. If I had’ rioted one these I may have come upon the other but did ‘not count it. This book was on one subject, “Advertising and Selling,” and it is to be sup- | posed that the writer had in his vocabulary several hundred other

"words that had no place in a book | |

on that subject, but would be used in other forms of composition. :

The English language is made up| :

of something like 30,000 words and knows them all.

tween nations. It 4s not the language of any one nation. It is made up of only about. 900 root words with 40 suffixes and prefixes which fakes it possible to form thousands of words. A person could hear

| Transylvania,

She was, indeed, a fish out of water.

other little countries around-about. All were depend=

Far Ragu rng Hi eal Ea ure—provided

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there is no one in all the world who ;

Esperanto is the logical language! | to become the universal link he-|:

right, Up to 1018, Austria had been part of the Austro Hungarian empire with 261,000 square miles of ferri= tory and 51,000,000 population. Also included were ‘ Polish Galicia, the Trentino, Croatia,. Bosnia, Slovenia, Herzegovina and the Banat, At the Paris peace table, Austria was trimmed down to, 32,000 square miles and 6,500,000 people half of whom lived in town. From Vienna as a hub, her railway system ran spoke-like out into the country a few miles and there disappeared across a frontier— perhaps in the middle of a beet field. She was an economic impossibility and soon the league of nations was forced to take her over, in a sort of ‘receivership,

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Hungary was not much” better off. Nor-were-the

ent upon: their more powerfiil neighbors and eventue ally Germany swallowed them. Forced to buy from, and sell to Hitler or perish, it is not surprising that

they became Nazi vassals,

Planning New Europe

~ “TODAY THE allies are beginning to plan a new Europe. The job was. well..begun -at..Moscow. . To

- continue -it, they set up a joint consultative commis-

sion to sit in London.. Already they have declared for a free Austria. But unless they do a better job by her - this time than they did the last, her freedom will turn out to be a delusion and a sham. “ As a member of some sort of Danubian federation, Austria would have a chance. Economically, though not politically, it would restore some of the conditions enjoyed before the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Similarly a Balkan entente would add to the stability of that area. -1t is doubtful if the Jugoslav kingdom can continue as it was before the war because of the bitterness bee tween the Croats, Slovenes and the Serbs, They { might live side by side-with-less: friction if each-had -. its autonomy within a Balkan union. Up to the present, . however, Russia has opposed such_federations. The ‘Moscow pacts, however, may... change her migd. With each Danubian,and Balkans state inedependent and under a democt tic regime “of Russia would be more sec the “economy of these small states was made vighle through a a federae tion or federations, ;

Global Voting By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Nov. “10. —te though Chairman Frank Walker of the Democratic national com“mittee insists that state and local Republican victories have no na--tional significance, some Democrats were trying to put the elec= ‘tions on a global basis before the returns came in. An “example, of how this was being done was placed in the con~ = record by Rep. Miller (R.Conn.). It was taken from the Metropolitan 3 News, West Hartford, Conn. The story relates how a former Democratic con=

words he had never heard, yet they would be perfectly comprehensible, | for-he would know-the root and the. added syllables which combined gave him the meaning. “IE pules are simple. TU-I§miten

is still clear. For instance the German says, “the butter spreads man

“ _|on the bread” which when literally

translatéd into English means the opposite. In Esperanto the word order may in either form, but it would still that it was the man and not the butter that did the spreading. If this simple language were; taught in schools of all countries, in 10 years there would never be

Let the United | States and England take the lead in this and other nations would quiekly fall in line, have studied Esperanto and it fluently, but having no one

clearer than English and no matter | Europe will know that we have let them “down,” Mr.

.|what word order is used, the sense |

gressman, Herman Kopplemann, in a pre-election broadcast called upon all ¥patriots to support the Dembcratic candidate for mayor of Hartford and nob | let our allies down. “If Hartford does not elect a Democratic mayor, the | people. -in-the- villages, towns..and. Cities. of.

Koppleman reportedly said.

If Republicans Win

~ “IP THE REPUBLICANS win the Hartford die. tion it's just too bad, the war might as well be over right now. : “If you don't want to let those conquered people | down, vote Democratic. Remember they are watching the ejection and only a real strong Democratic mas jority will assure those people that we are still in there to fight and win this war and release them: from their bondage.” That speech brought the following reaction from | the West Hartford editor: “We could just visualize the contrasting scenes in Europe,” he wrote, Mrs. Propokovski dripping her plate of borscht and shouting for glee as she heard that Denny O'Connor had been chosen mayor of Hartford. “Tito Korovetz of the Jugoslav guerrillas dashing | out to knock off a few more Nazis t celebrate the

“Or, on {he other hand the more poignant scenes, as all those poor downtrodden people under the heel of Hitler listen to their radios and cry in their (needled) beér in despair as Mortensen (Republican) is elected.

Europe Let Him Down’

“WELL, BILL MORTENSEN was elected, ww stayed up all night anxiously awaiting some late news ‘flashes from Europe revealing overseas reaction to

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