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HITLER TRIES AGAIN

O Hitler is putting out peace feelers again. He wants to make a deal. But he should know .by this time that allies will have none of it. Why, then, does he keep on? Far be it from us to figure with any certainty the way his criminal mind works. But it looks as though he is trying to frighten the allies into believing that their “unconditional surrender” terms mean that Germany will fight to the last drop of blood of the last German. He wants us to think that the Germans will rereat into the southern mountains and wage guerrilla warfare for a dozen years, meanwhile rebuilding a Nazi super-state. As an expert in fear—and how he must fear unconditional surrender—he apparently assumes that, if he can scare the allies enough, they will fall for a “negotiated peace.” All of that is a gigantic bluff. Despite Goebbels’ propaganda to make the unconditional surrender demand boomerang against us, there is no evidence that he has sold the . Germans on the glory of becoming permanent guerrillas, At least in those parts of the Reich already occupied, German civilians observed the entry of American troops with equanimity and without great fear of what was going to happen-to them.

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STEADY JOBS, STEADY PAY IXTY million jobs—if that’s the right number—won’t rake the American people happy and comfortable and safe after the war, unless they're the right kind of jobs. Just work isn’t enough to satisfy anybody. What Americans want is useful work, creating wealth for them and their families to enjoy. Well-paid work, of course. And steady work, at steady pay, so that they can plan for the future. That's security. That's real freedom from want and fear. And it isn’t an impossible dream. Quite a few wageearners in this country already have it. Several hundred companies have tried plans for stabiliz. ing employment and pay. Some of the plans haven't worked, but others seem to have been highly successful from every | viewpoint. Workers like them, employers find them good business, and communities where they operate enjoy more prosperity because of them. : = a » . . WE WANTED—and you might like—to know more about these plans. Some. of them call for “guaranteed annual wages,” 52 regular pay checks each.year, sharing of the profits of production, or perhaps only for a guaran“teed minimum number of weeks of work. The one thing common to all of them is the protection they give to employees against being laid off suddenly from their jobs and their incomes. So we asked Allan L. Swim to study a few of these plans and write about them, and the first of his articles The second is on Page 11 today. We hope that, as a result of this exploration of this subject; many employers and many employees will become .interested in it. “And that, perhaps, some of them will get together and work out plans of their own for steady jobs and steady pay: : = Mr. Swim; by the way, is a labor leader as well as a ‘newspaperman. He is assistant city editer of the Memphis. Press-Scimitar, a Scripps-Howard newspaper; a member of the American Newspaper Guild, and president of the Memphis Industrial Council of Ca. I. O. unions.

VICTORY GARDEN OUTLOOK

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WORLD AFFAIRS—

Which Is It?

By John W. Hillman

THERE WAS A TIME when | the modern . equivalent of the | gypsy’'s curse was: “May all your children be radio announcers.” That, as we recall it, was back in the early days of broadcasting when a good many of thes oracles of the cairwaves were simpering elocutionists, or frustrated bari=They

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tones had become ‘famous overnight and had developed their own headv brand of egotism. Humility was not in them, nor sin=-

cerity—how could it be when it was their-destiny to lather the air with hammy rhapsodies on the. life« giving qualities of kidney pills, stomach elixirs. laxa-

tives, hangover remedies and headache -nostrums, not. .to mention the soap chips, ungents, mouth washes and other symbols of our civilization?

Curse Has Become Too Horrible ° BUT WE HAVEN'T heard that imprecation recently. Perhaps that is due to the higher caliber of announcets® Or perhaps it is because there is a war On and, wish the commentators struggling with the umlauts and sibilants spewed up in the wake of our advancing armies, the’ curse has’ become too horrible, It's something that even the most vengeful would not wish on his worst #nemies or their heirs and assigns—to spend a lifetime trying to pronounce such words as IJssel and Przemysl

Before we get down to cases, we ought to make it clear that we're not casting any stones. ‘We can't afford to: -~ we're just sympathizing. Fer we're not so fluent ourselves with the spoken word, and our pronunciation is strictly catch-as-catch-can and rule of tongue. On the rare occasions when we are goaded | by more or less popular request, to utter a few |

well-chosen words in public for the audience as it is for oratorically,. as a stumble: somewhere th

the result is as painful We're what is known, We, aim our remarks ee-quarters back on the ceiling, we get tangled ur our sentences-and have to fight our way out, and re we should pause for dramatic effect (and to catch our breath), we say “ahuh.”" In fact our remarks are chiefly “ahuhs” And our voice is either way up in the soprano register

or somewhere in the back of our throat, coiled desperately around a suffering larynx. Our Typewriter Stutters, Too NO, WE'RE NO Demosthenes, though we do sound as though we were chewing rocks. Even when we

sit down at the typewriter, where we are more in our element, we have a tendency to stitter—as the compositor who sets this column well knows, . Fortunately the xxxxxxx's, the le tte r jum ps and the interlineatons and afterthoughts don't show on the printed page—but when we make a speech we don't have any printers to pick up after us. So any criticism of radio techniques is not made superciliously. We know what ti® boys against, and we couldn't do any better. And when battles are being fought in Holland or Poland, the broadcasters may be pardoned if they splutter a bit over the communiques. Those names | are tough— in fact we've sometimes wondered if the | food situation hasn't been so had thereabouts that the starving citizens have gnawed away all the vowels

the more Jgdible consonants, leaving only a ie _pot podtri of j's, k's, y's and z's. Muffirtg Some Easy Chances

BUT WE'VE NOTICED that the newscasters. also have been huffing some &asy chances. A couple of weeks ago, we were startled to hear one of them announcing the loss of the destroyer “Mon-ag-a-hah” and we imagine that he heard from the *Monaghans on that one. Our learned editorial writer, feeling the influence of spring, published a little -rhyvme yesterday about the difference in the pronunciation | of Remagen. We've noticed some other variations, also, so we dashed off a couple more verses as a postscript to his editorial. The editorial writer may be puzzled over Remagen, but after listening to some current broadcasts, we can’t decide whether: Victory .can not be very far When we take the Ruhr and Saar, or whether: "Along the River Rhine is where ~ Patton's sweeping past the Saar.

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“Lest we be accused of ignoring the proverb About the mote and the beam, we'll add although the newspapers are immune to the vagaries of. pronunciation, they seem to have a hard tinre making up their minds

whether it's “Teheran” or “Tehran”; Roumania,” “Rumania” or “Romania”; and whether there's a “Yug” or a. “Jug” m Yugoslavia. Or maybe it should |

“be Yugoslavakia we always have to ask which it is,

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N one column of your favorite newspaper it says food is scarce (as if you didn’t know), and may become scarcer. Then the paper says almost 21 billion pounds | of meat and about 175,000 pounds of butter were exported | in the 18 months ended last Nov. 30 for “relief and other | than military requirements.” To this the OPA adds that | civilian supplies of meat and butter, along with other food items, are at their lowest point since-the beginning of | the war. - Although this casts gloom over the supper table out-. look, there is one bright spot. OPA hints that victory gardeners may be able to coax extra gas from ration boards this season, provided each gardener cultivates at least 1500 square feet of ground not more than 15 miles from home. Please note, however, will,” allow the gas,

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TAX TROUBLE

M?® FE soldiers are worried by income tax troubles than r faithless wives, the War Department reports. Six per fret over domestic crises as against 26 per cent sweating over taxes. The judge advocate general, Maj. Gen. ‘Myyon Gs Cramer, says the fireside squabbles generally can be adjusted by exercising “common sense and fore-.| bearance.” » Okay, judge, now tell us how to use common sense on income tax blanks.

RADIO SHIFTS COMMERCIALS (COMMERCIAL announcements will be eliminated immediately from the middle of news broadcasts on radio stations owned and operated by NBC, according to Niles To this, a:CBS spokesman adds that this network considers it preferable to postpone -commer-

To listening America that is welcome. Harkening to, some broadcasts, we-.often have wondered whether the. fighting was in the Pacific or in our alimentary canal.

ANOTHER SHORTAGE

AN shortage is reported. in news dispatches: a re getting shy of $1000 bills, $500 bills and $100 ills. ‘Moneywise. men say these are being salted away by gu a few others in an effort to dodge income. “shortage that most of us ean } Ange in

| American people are “selfish.” They have been under

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Mah The administration's use American public as its boy whenever anything goes on. the home front, impression abroad as errone it is harmful to our national tation, Recently I spent some five months in England- The overall impression there seemed to be that the American man-in-the-street is

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more or less lukewarm regarding the war and that but. for President Roosevelt the whole American effort might go .to pot. That why foreign: opinion was so overwhelmingly for him

in the last election, In Britain—and, to some extent even among own armed forces—I found a widespread Potion here in the United States filet mignons are as

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ful as ever and that the public give little or no thought to the rest of the world. The President's week-end statement on the food situation, carrying with it the implication that’ some | Americans would let others starve rather .than si ib | mit to a small cut in some of their own abundance, will add to this unfortunate build-up. Personally I have yet to encounter an American | who objects to sharing whatever he has with his less ! fortunate ‘allies, I have observed, however, that there is a fairly general feeling that food rationing | and distribution in, this country had been badly | bungl od. -

They Do It Better in England CERTAINLY they do it much better in England. 1 saw beautiful cuts of meat in London butcher-shops, | for instance, choicer than I have observed here in

Washington, That was not because there was an abundance in Britain. There wasn't.. But whatever there was, was available to all alike. One's

weekly ration might call for only a few ounces but he got those few ounces if he had the necessary points. In Britain practically everythihg is rationed and the rationing is made to work. While I was there one of the empire's most popular actors cheated a little en gasgline and was given two months'in prison for his error. Nor did they coddle him while there. He wore the same garb, ate the same food and made little rocks out of big ones just like any other common criminal, w

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the impression that literally billions of dollars worth of American food has already been shipped abroad—‘through UNRRA, for example, If UNRRA isn't func-+ tioning, that again is not their fault. It is because (1) shipping space is lacking and (2), certain political regimes io 1a Slow nd to go even to their own e unless do the distribut them- | saves and can make certain that Wy,

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“ELEANOR LIKES

- TO GO PLACES” {By Mrs. G. B. Jackson, South Bend First, why do you keep Eleanor | velt's column in your other- | With a shortage | | of paper, her's is one column that |

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wise good paper?

| could be dispensed with. It is made | | up of platitudes and sounds as if |

it were written by an eighth- grade |

|-student. I sometimes read it instead |

of the funny columns. In Tuesday's paper, “Miss Thompson and I left on the night train to come to Raleigh, N. C.” Just like

{ that! And I will bet most anything { they didn’t stand up nor go without

any meals on the way. Maybe some | soldiers and sailors and service-| men’s - wives with small children I have a: sister in North Carolina’ whom 1 have not seen for several years. I would like very much to go and! see her, but my government has

‘asked me to stay off trains unless

it is really necessary. ‘They say that all the seats in

d every train are needed for service- |

men and- their families, and for people who must travel for business |

lor goverment purposes But Queen | REICH a dozer tinTes— We woud -be- SHOR. What. to da. | Eleanor likes to go places, and, by

golly, ‘she goes. We should be thankful, I suppgse, that she didn’t | decide to take an army plane or|

| two--with - their crews and some]

secret service men,” too. She has

done. i, Fou ‘KDOW, Oh well, we're riety! 2 aw “THE GREATEST N

By Henry W. Reger,

When we issued our uncondi-| tional surrender ultimatum to the {Germans we pulled the greatest blunder of all times. It the rankest kind of sheer stupidity. Anyone with an ounce of brains must realize that any render must of necessity he governed by a certain set of conditions, regardless of how harsh the terms might be. In issuing our ultimatum to the Germans we prolonged the war six months with a huge loss of Ameri« | can life and countless millions of | wealth, It was stupidity that sur- | passed 3ll ynderstanding, when we | issued our ipconditional surrender ultimatum. It has been the only means by! vhich Hitler- has kept the German! army at its post. Seventy-five per'

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| REPORT FROM EUROPE—

to express their views in MORE BUILDINGS?” these columns, religious con- [By An Ex-WAC. Indianapolis troversies excluded. Because I have followed with great ine of the volume received, let- [terest your articles concerning the ters shou'd be limited to 250 | memorials and statues to be erected words. Letters must be |for our veterans. I wholly agree signed. Opinions set forth | With “Discharged Veteran,” March

here are those of the writer {12, that something should be done > s Nose © 8 writers, |about the returning veterans’ jobs

8nC Pucucation > oY 1 have a brother who is serving] Impiies agreement with those | gverseas. He has been gone since opinions by The Times. The |January, 1941, He was just out of|

Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts ana cannot enter cor-

respondence regarding them.)

{ school when he left here. He had never held a job in his life. Why| | shouldn't this money be taken and Igiven to these boys and give them a decent chance for re-adjustment

{cent of the Germans Here ready to | when they come back.

call it “quits” a year ago. If we. I know what it means to go to had used our common sense -in WOrk immediately after returning pointing dut to them it was a hope- [rom the service. I was discharged | less battle on their part, the Euro- from the Women's Army Corps on| pean war might now be over. {Jan.-12 and wert to work Jan. 22. It seems to me the idea should be YOu have no chance for re-adjust-to promise the Germans anything ment at all in that length of time, to get them to lay down their arms. and therefore are dissatisfied on your | Once they laysddwn their arms, we 10D. It is just as hard to -adjust can impose any kind of peace on yourself to civilian life as it was to {the Germans we like. We'll be able adjust yourself to military life. In| to march several armies across the | act. 1 is harder, because you don't | Oh, yes! Your ‘for ‘all 8overnment is in back of you in everything you do, but you feel like a little canary out of your cage and ‘would almost rather go back than face people. Just as .“Discharged Veteran” said: “People do promise you every ‘thing when you are going

able to disarm® Germany time. We could 6ccupy with an army indefinitely. For anyone to say that the present debacl le wonldn’t have happened if we had marched to Berlin during | World" War I, is to. admit _he knows, 0 the: service, but when you re

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zailles “tteaty, -It i ita ia 1 was plenty stiff gotten their promises.” (in its original form.' It was our f t stupidity that nullified it and made 1 can’ shink of a better way lo

use the money than to give the ex-! | service people a little bonus, either | upon discharge from the service or|

the present conflict possible. Regardless of what terms we im-

pose on the Germans at the war's 1 hor Ww end, we must remember that we ©°° a oe Hite Jute? . hy bute cant extort any more than what mpfe Jungs. 8 nave. #ll of

are able to pay or produce. The 3 Seen all of the ones we already

build , roads, etc., we destroy im. : | Germany now will, without a: doubt, nn = have to be rebuilt with -Americant “SERIOUS DANGER IS

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greater cost in life and money. If never. miss the water until the well | (We can save one American life, it goes dyy. {would be just as wise to do so. In! I have often wanted to call some-| ithe words of Ben Franklin, “There | one's attention to the serious danger | (never was a good war or a8 bad|that is in front of us all right here! peace.” It's our conduct after the!in Indianapolis. {war that will ‘determine whether| I wonder what. good it will do for| | justice or anarchy shall rule the! some governor (several years hence) |

(world. We can preserve peace in-|to tell us that the situation is de-| definitely, if we set our hearts and! plorable.

That's the original alibl | "hands to the task of peace.

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

good. When 1 was a boy, Fall creek, | Pogue's run, Pleasant run and Lick

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your hands nd say the grouhd i is too herd

creek were running full all of the! | year and were well-stocked with fish | Now 90 per cent of the time, they are all dry. This is caused by the fact that the level of the under-. ground water supply. is so low that! {it cannot féed the springs that for- | {| merly kept these streams running | | naturally, | What good will | years to come, | the

it do to us, in| to have known that | large stores of our. city were] air-conditioned by wasting the] | water that we have for this purpose now and shutting down our shops and factories for lack of water in later years—and then the stores will have to closes as the’ factory workers will have no money to spend in these stores. If we took this water from the underground supply, we are just as able to put it back. For we do have abundance of rains, that flow] right back to the ocean. This matter should be called to the ,attention of those who can + | correct our mistake and get’ the heavy rains into the underground places that contain our future supply. It's really serious. ' Surface reservoirs will not kéep ‘us going.

DAILY THOUGHTS And they were offended in him, But Jesus said unto them, A ' prophet is not without honor, saye in his own country and in his own house, —Matthew 13:57.

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Purely Personal By Thomas L. Stokes

DEAUVILLE, France, March 20.-—This is a purely personal matter. It has nothing to do with the war, It has nothing to do with the business I'm on, except % as a means of transport from Paris f_ to. here to get part of the story I'm writihg. The means. of transport was a “Cub” plane. You've heard of the Cub—it's the model of the family= size plane for the post-war period, that is, if you don't have too big a family. At Paris, the army's public relations .office arranged for me to fly over here in a Cub. I got “to ‘the airport at 9-a. m. The weather over Deauville was reported to be “impossible.” The 10 o'clock report was the same. :- So was the 11, I went back to the hotel. , Then I got a hurried call from the airport. The weather over Deauville had suddenly cleared and if I rushed right out I could get off. I rushed.

'It Looked Like a Fancy Kite' THE PILOT walked ahead of me on the field to something about the size of a butterfly. This was it. It looked like a fancy kite. I looked around for the string. the ground and I was supposed to get in. I crawled up over a strut of the wing dnd got in. I am long-legged. I pulled my legs in, and curled them up as best I could. He told me to strap on my. belt, which 1 did. Then he went out in front and began to wind up the propeller, sort of like winding up a grandfather's clock. or a coffee grinder. The motor started noisily like a Model T. The pilot crawled into the front seat, pulled up the isinglass window—such a delicate thing it was— and there we were, sitting in this showcase of isinglass. "The only confident thing about the whole business was my freckle-faced pilot. He craned his neck to look down the runway. A big plane was warming up down the line. It looked awfully big, even from where we were. Then he ventured out with the boxKite. © On the runway we wandered. along for a While, then he gave her the. gun and we were off.

‘Like Sitting on a Greased Pole’ I WATCHED the land disappear with misgivings. 1 had flown across the ocean in a C-54 and had flown about France in a C-47, but those were big planes with room “enough in them to breathe and to move around. When we got up about a thousand feet I looked down. It was like sitting on a greased pole a thousand feet up. It reminded me of one of those dreams vou have of being on a-very high .place, all by vourself. You wake up from those, but I couldn't do anything about this 1 quit looking out the windows-—and it was all windows—and started to. look down between my feet’ trying to think of something, anything. But all 1' could think of was: “How did you ever get mixed up in anvthing like this?” I blamed myself. 1 blamed thousands of other people. 1 cussed everybody I could think of. My hands got clammy. 1 was going to be up there an hour and a half. How could I stand {t? Finally I summoned my dourage and looked up. The pilot was looking at ‘a road map. Then he would peer out, each side.

'He Thought It Was Funny’

ONCE HE pointed up. A great string of bombers was coming.

looking at his map. Finally we were over a fairly large town. He motioned to me. showed me the map. He had gone out of the way. He laughed. I guess he thought it was funny

He kept

A few minutes later the engine began to sputter,’

and we started down fast, swooping. Out of gas, | I thought. We kept coming down, twisting this way and that, like a swallow. All I could see was a

I saw other planes. Must be some sort Before I knew it we had bumped 1 scrambled

Then of an airfield. the ground. This was our destination. What an experience! The Cub may be the family plane of the future, but not for my Tamiiy!

IN WASHING TON—

Manpower Problem By. Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 20.=A .

really critical situation in heavyduty rubber tires and tubes is made “doubly bad by a manpower problem piled on top of inadequate manufacturing facilities, Its elements include a 100 pér cent industrial ‘expansion over pre-war levels, a shortage of skilled workers which has necessitated furloughing men already drafted for the armed services, a wage controversy that is longstanding, and management charges that labor is producing at only about 80 per cent eReiency. Take Qese factors one at a time. In 1939 average factory employment ww tire and tube production was 54,000. It rose steadily to 94,200 in Jamuary, ‘1944, dropped off to 93,000 by December, but in January of this year was 95,300. This includes 1500- ex-tire workers furloughed from the army ‘for 90 days to help meet production schedules. The furloughs mpy have to be extended, one experienced tire worker being worth a dozen green hands.

| 4000 More. Men Needed

THERE WAS an additional demand for 4000 tire workers, however, to obtain full employment for three-shift operation of all the “within existing walls” tire-making machinery. Over half of these 4000 have been recruited. On top of this will come a demand for 6000 men and 2000 women to man the new tiremaking facilities ordered built by the war production board + within the next three months. These new factories will not be in production until 1946. Every kind-of incentive has been tried. The presence of soldiers in uniform working in the factories helps tremendously in impressing civilians with the urgency of production. Each day's output is hauled

| away from the factories as fast as possible, to im-

press workers with the fact that every tire is needed immediately. - Every tiresmaker who works every

day the first three months of this year gets a cers...

tificate signed bv Gen, Brehon “Somervell, The results have been good. Tire workers have responded and ‘production’ has soared, even though this synthetic rubber is hard to work and the big tires are back-breakers. Absenteeism and labor turnover rates have dropped.

‘Wage Issue Is Tough THE WAGE issue is tough. In May, 1943, the war labor board granted a Little Steel formula increase of 3 cents. an hour, though 8 cents an hour had been asked. There , was a short strike in protest. Buf then the United Rubber Workers, C. 1. O.,.came in with new demands for 17 cents an hour Increasé in base rates. There was a preliminary hearing on this ‘demand before the war labor board March 5, but labor and management representatives were both sent

back to prepare briefs which will be presented March

20, hearings going on from there. Management charges that labor isn't producing all it could is ‘the result of an old feud. In the days - before the industry was organized, labor charges that management indulged in a program of cutting peace work pay rates every time a workman got efficient and found ways to increase his production. It is difficult to unsell labor on the idea that management will not do the same thing again if it has the chance. The future or emergency tire production will be settled when this iin Mos up for renewal

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