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tion’s position on the ability-to-e in Snags segotiations, Reconversion Director

or | a TOARCS, oan granted, and to what extent, can. Ir the A analysis only be judged by asking a ; much of an increase can the individua company afford to pay if it is to meet its payrolls and stay in business? If a company cannot stay in business, obviously it cannot continue to employ workers.” "If we were a labor leader—and from that point of view only—we would want to take a good second and third and fourth look at such a policy before cheering it. = Especially, since the policy is one that would be administered and ennot by labor and management, but by government. at being the ultimate purpose of the administration. While Mr. Snyder speaks of increases in-this matter, , primarily affects successful industries, where might policy finally lead labor? -. ; We say again—ours is not Just a profit gystem. It \ a profit and loss system. ‘More businesses fail than succeed. To repeat from the record: Nearly one-third of * new business enterprises fail in their first year. Another Sor 12 pes ent fofl In thelr second year, - And very nearly | handker : years. ras

NOW, APPLY to labor, over the long haul. The Snyder of “How much can the individual company afford if it is to' meet its payroll and stay in Business?” + would the government agency, enipowered by law lo enforce its decisions, do when the losers come up? Might “pot rule that wage cuts were necessary for the losing inion to meet their payrolls and stay in busidess and maintain em t? The answer could very logically be yes. And the decision would rest in the government. *" We think one vital thing is being overlooked by both tion spokesmen and labor leaders in this whole nin It Is the element of risk capital. From such capital—the accumulate savings of those who are willing take a chance—comes the payroll in losing ventures are being operated in the hope of ultimate success. " Nothing could be more unfair to the worker than that ‘should be paid less than a good living wage just because company employing him was losing money. But it could happen under the governmentally admin- : enunciated by Mr. Snyder—the principle “of how much can. the individual company afford to pay if it w stay in business? that's the danger—not ‘to capital, but to labor.

DETHRONES A MYTH

Hirohito took off his false face as a god he made history. It is the biggest thing that has happened in Awan, ‘next to allied victory. i ap militarism was based on twin myths. One, was the i divinity, The other was the related chosen seople dogma which gave them the right and the unbeatable e power of conquest. These two superstitions made e Jap docile to command and fanatical as a warrior— and came very near paying off in the promised supremacy. + They ‘did not do so, thanks chiefly to the heroism, e and superior skill of America’s democratic fighting forces. When Japan was not only defeated

f occupation, one of the twin myths was destroykd. The root myth of the emperor's divinity remained. Gen. MacArthur struck at this by outlawing state Shintoism — the official mechanism of the obligatory myth. But this root cannot be destroyed by foreigners. the emperor himself may not be able to do it.

‘as completely poisoned as the Japanese; the mental cure will be slow at best. : But of all conceivable means of convincing the Tape Shas Hirao is not a god, certainly his own public disavowal divinity should be the most potent. oui a Hivinity sho Year's imperial rescript, the most binding n of law to a Jap, the emperor announced that his ties Sv, k the people “do ‘not depend upon a mere legends and myths.” Specifically he added: “They are not predicated

citizens have just cleaned up the most trepus job of its kind ever done. /» Dec. 381, was the last day for reporting Tosult 1 y Loan campaign, last of eight wartime funddrives 1t was also the day Ted R, Gamble, $1-a-year Ji the last six drives, resigned to go. back to private

‘war Saies division started operations on , the people of the United States bought bonds at $184,800,000,000. In all history, there

contrast, Liberty Bond sales World War I totaled

cost of Promoting. selling and delivering World War II bonds in a period of nearly five years is about : ‘That amounts to a selling cost of 1/41 of 1 pra Another way, it cost 2.4 ls per

citizens did the_job that cheaply ‘because x million volunteers sold the bonds, Saks provided free services, ums provided, free, the |" ) talent and most of the

auta.can be proud n satisfied custothe people:

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whole landsca) ing that looks as if it mi had a chance to investigate. I'll bet, though, that most of the people living afbund there are good Catholics.

too, but for the life of me I can’t remember, [ quite possible that she attended mass before I fot up in the morning, in which case I wouldn't know anything about it. Be that as it may, it always struck me that our Amelia had the kind of good conscience that it takes to make a good Catholic,

Amelia a Kitchen Prize

than a good conscience in her hired girls. Our Amelia had that, too. She was especially good in the kitchen, I remember, and I still recall the kind of breakfast rolls she made, thing around here, and I guess if I'd dig into it I'd find that they, too, were something indigenous to Teutopolis.

He was bald and every bit of. 60 years old. Nor did

\| self again. By that time she was going with a robust

ruled by an American supreme commander and army

Superstitions do not disappear overnight. In a population |

-| chinery is too powerful for that.

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Chances are that our Amelia was & good Catholic, It >

OF COURSE, mother demanded something more : They were unlike any-

That wasn’t all there was to Amelia, however. Among her more remarkable gifts was the ability to finish her work around 3 o'clock: in the afternoon. That's when she did her reading and writing. She .subsaribed to two papers, 1 remember. One was The Fireside Companion; the other, a weekly published by a Chicago matrimonial bureau, the purpose of wiiich was to bring lonely people like Amelia together. Thé two papers were kind of complementary inasmuch as those were the years that The Fireside Companion published the stories of Laura Jean Libbey, a dependable author who never failed to deliver the loving couple into each other’s arms while bells banged the nuptials and friends wept into their handkerchiefs,

Pen Pal Admitted

1 GUESS it was about a year after Amelia came to work for us that she took me into her confidence. I was about 10 years old at the time, and I still remember how it tickled my vanity when she asked me to help her with her letters. It turned out-that she had been corresponding with a handsome fellow, one she had picked up in the matrimonial paper. There was no mistaking his good looks for Amelia had shown me his photograph. It was that of a man about 30 years old with a priceJess handle-bar mustache and a luxuriant growth of hair on his head. The letter Amelia and I wrote that afternoon was an invitation urging him to come to Indianapolis. I knew he’d come because we put everything we had into the writing of that letter. I remember, too, that just before sealing the letter Amelia slipped in a fistful of greenbacks which, I strongly suspect, represented her savings of the past year. Mother, I remember, paid Amelia $3 every week, the top price of a first-rate hired girl; at any rate, on the South Side.

Not Dashing, Not Young THE VERY next Saturday the man showed up.

the white hair on his upper lip reveal any of the vigor of a handle-bar mustache. Amelia didn’t say a word, but she couldn't hide the fact that she felt sorry for him. Next morning she put him on the train and never once mentioned the money. The quality of Amelia's baking fell off after that, but not for long. Inside of a year she was her old

young clerk who worked in a McOarty st. butcher shop. They got married without a single letter passing between them. After that, mother had to find another girl and, believe it or not, she went all the way to Teutopolis to look for one as good as Amelia.

WORLD AFFAIRS— Soviet Moves By Carl D. Groat

NAPLES, Jan. 2.—Russia is demobilizing slowly — and Russia is also calling up new classes. The nation’s slogan ‘now is industrial : and military reconstruction. Russia has won her big war. But she won at a terrific cost—officially it has been estimated at 670 billion rubles, which at the so-called diplomatic rate of exchange would be more than $50 billion, At Russia’s own over-night rate of exchange the total would be nearly double those rubles in dollars. Apparently in manpower too Russia suffered heavily. The toll is put at six million—or ‘the equivalent of ner ariginal army—in dead, wounded or missing. “The nation Is néar exhaustion, but its leaders sometime ago heralded a new five-year plan to which many eitizens privately at least responded: “So what! We want more food and clothes and shoes and luxuries which we haven't had for so long.”

Run by 'Gravy Trainers’

SAYS ONE Soviet journal -- remember, all the press in Russia’ is -government-controlled—‘Vjctory doesn't mean all dangers to .our socialist s have been eliminated. It's only -the immediate Hitler menace that has gone.” Russia is closely controlled by the “gravy train” group which needs to worry little over public re action. These gravy trainers reportedly are insiste ing on industrial and military reconstruction, For example, they are converting tank factoriesinto trans< portation machinery factories, since transport in Russia 1s bad. But qualified observers question whether there is anything approaching a revolt at hand—Soviet ma~

Meantime the Soviets have: raised the question of the desired U. 8. loan, which probably would be utilized toward some.gonsumer goods. Much of it would go for machine tools from Cincinnati for example. : ;

Lean Years Ahead

SOVIET authorities are hot too much concerned over home-front demand for. consumer goods; hence Russia has must “austerity” or lean years ahead. But it will be interesting to watch whether the original enthusiasms of past five-year plans can be duplicated.

hausted or apathetic, Their housing is bad. Overcrowding reaches new eights and Moscow food is not plentiful. Farmers are now permitted to sell their surpluses in ‘open markets at high prices, but government store competition tends to check too much of a price rise.. The populace has been much concerned over British-American differences with Russia, and now there is relief over the friendliness of the Moscow conference. But some American observers. say the nation and government are likely to continue jumpy and fearful, In other years the populace had something ahead

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are many millions in this great country. of ours who do not favor military conseription. Yes, we supposedly abolished the military setup in Japan and Germany. The result of our not being a military nation can be plainly seen by consulting our own casualty lists of world war II. Would this list have ‘been so discouragingly long if we would have been prepared for the chain of events following Dec. .1. 19417? ] Yes, the United Nations Organization will be a wonderful thing if its purposes can be effected In my opinion it is a big gamble. Can we afford to take a chance on it alone? Or shall we, as other world powers will no doubt do, look to our own interests first? We should know by now that we can only trust our worldly neighbors so far. I don't believe that all of the 1,250,000 boys: who reach the 17-13 year age group will receive military training, this year or any other year. There would be more than a few eliminations for physical reasons, to say nothing of many other causes, As for expense involved in training .these men, it would be a mere “drop in the bucket” when we consider the expense of killing the same number of young men in a future conflict. Perhaps the goblins would think more than twice about trying to get us if we had a, good booby~trap to frighten them away. It is well to also have a big stick to back the soft words of a smooth tongue. When will we awaken to this fact? Hasn't: it been well exemplified during the past few decades? Perhaps might does make right, if it is properly used. If we tried to raise a reserve

matter; by voliintary means I shudder to think of the result. It is an unthinkable impossibility to em= bellish any effective. army with even a small degree of the nibeties that are; for the most part, a requisite, in comparison, with a job on the outside. In conclusion, the army just isn't “nice.” Who can blame

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for having to be forced into service? The alternatives that you mertioned just “don’t hold water.” I, too. hope the: goblins don't get us. : : ‘ . » » “WHERE WILL G. M. FIND ITSELF IN LATER YEARS?” By J. L. B, Indianapolis How can C. E. Wilson, big shot of’ the General Motors, lay down and! enjoy a peaceful night's sleep after his deceitful way of offering his! compromise to the common labo r-| ers of his concern? We workers for| G. M. don't begrudge him his large | salary as he’s doing us. If it weren’t| for his employees down the line, sweating and toiling and all, he would not be making such a large yearly = salary. Of course, during the war the stockholders made a nice fat plece of change off of their holdings *with the company. Now | toys, candy, clothes, etc, are bein g rsold at very ridiculous prices to whomever has that kind of money to throw away for such junk. Now, G 'M., if we are granted a raise, wants to raise the price of their cars. Just how many loyal @G. M. workers can afford to buy the product they help to build and make about 15 per cent? Naturally if one doesn't make it, he or she can't spend it. If ne or she can, then G. M. and all other concerns are in the big time again. We have a new car-hungry nation, I'll agree But-—-when this has gone, I ask you, where will G. M. find itself in later years? All its faithful buyers should goross over to Chrysler or Ford and not forget the dirty roften deal it's passing out to the old-timers that oave been sticking by them so long. (t's hear from some of you other

any of our straight-thinking youth

Side Glances—By Galbraith

guys on this tople. .

A MAN may te » general in wartime, but in peace-

THE G. OP: elephant méeds {pr He's "developed a Spit: split. personality.

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“l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

‘Ithings in life and to see them quit

}icold often, working every day, some

“PAPERS SAY NOTHING OF COMPANIES ON STRIKE” By Liberal, Lebanon The papers of lately have been full of strike news always blaming the workers, but nothing is said about the companies being on strike. _ The strikers are just asking for what is just due them. All they want is a fair wage and their share of the hig profit they have made for the big eompanies: The reason for these strikes is .to keep these companies from paying big taxes. After the first of the year taxes will be cut by two-thirds. If General Motors were working now they would receive just 12% cents out of every dollar profit they made. After the first of 1946 they will receive 622 cents out of the profit they make. Can anyone with brains at all fail to see who is to blame for the strikes? After the first of the year, the strikes will be over, but things won’t be good and, pientiful - until after June 30, 1946, {'vvhen ¢eiling prices and government i regulations are lifted.” That is the | reason why we can’t buy gloves, { shirts, dresses, radios, washers and a thousand other things because big business is on strike, not the work- | ers. Al] big business wants to do is (poison the minds” of the ignorant people against Jahor. Some people say, send the strikers to jail or the ‘army. If it hadn't been for them, {the average wage would be 35 to 40 cents per hour. It hurts big business to see the working people have the - good

work, for when the workers quit the big drones don’t- have it so easy because the ‘laboring people make the big profit for them. If

on any product is"made in a factory, who makes it? Why, itis the workers, but the big shot gets the credit. When the war was on and Uncle Sam was paying ‘the bills, labor didn't have to work quite so hard, but Uncle quit. They began to crack down, They would tell the workers if they got out less than 90 they were losing money, If over 90 they broke even, over 100 they made a very small profit. They call

cause of some strike some place, they are going to have to lay them off a few days and cut the hours for what is left, knowing then they wanted to get rid of the ones who signed for more money or if they didn’t, let some drone foreman run over them. They were left in the

going to school and working at night to help out the war cause. Some went to army, came back and were let out because some foreman who was deferred didn't like them, The farmers say, farmers would strike?” They are on a strike, won't raise chickens,

have to work.

hound drivers.

puts the almighty dollar. .above.. human life and wouldn't give in Now, working

DAILY THOUGHT Go to the ant, thou sluggard;

+ "If we make a lot & ro noise, dow’ t ook at Morn. i drop ad yous won't ee 8 ary ik looks!"

Proverbs 6:6; ii

The ‘Air Age’

By Randolph Churchill -

any new invention or improvement

a pep talk, tell the workers be-

“What if we

hogs and cattle because they don't ‘|lget a double price for them and a large per cent of them spend two thirds of their time in some county seat courthouse complaining how bad off they are and how hard they

The traffic jam the last two or three days was blamed on the GreyNow ‘the jam was all over the U., 8. A. and only 18 states were affected by the strike, These drivers offered fo drive these busses free of charge to take these soldiers home but no, the company

1g men, wake up and don't let the big shots poison your

consider her ways, and be wise. —

MORROW, fon tomorrow, not to-

ROME, Jan, 2.—~This is the time of year when one is supposed to" make good resolutions. My New Year's resolution fis, i possible, never again to travel a air in winter in Europe. My fervent hope for the year 1946 is that trains may start running and

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‘| that it will be possible to arrive at one’s destination

only a few hours instead of several days late. «Some weeks agdé I described how it took me four days to fly from Lopdon to Moscow. I have Just taken Hve days ¥) fiy:frm: Landen 19 Rowe. - The first Hay, the trip was postponed 2¢ hours owing to bad weather. The second day, we got 100 j miles across Prance and were then ordered to return to base—because of weather. i B On the third day, the flight again was postponed 24 hours. On the fourth day, we got as far as Istres,- some 40 miles west of Marseilles, Here a gust of wind blew the tail of our Dakota into a truck. RAR Teanspor, Command @ig Not haw the necessary. spare parts, Normally the RAF and the American Alr Teams: port Command, when sharing an airfield, help each other out in the matter of spares. ‘Unfortunately,

‘| the American colonel was away in Mee, and his

deputy was in Wiesbaden, The leutenant in ehargs- of the: Amerieas Unik was doubtful whether he could take the responsi bility of loaning the RAF the necessary spares. Eventually, however, he took the plunge and we got to Rome the following evening around 9 o'clock.

Development Restricted HERE WE found Field Marshal ‘Lord Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, on the last lap of a 40,000-mile round trip which had taken him in a British 8tork "from England to Burma, Singapore, Tokyo and Australia. In the whole of the trip, he never once was delayed by bad weather until he got back to Italy, where he had been stuck for four days. ; There seems no doubt that, of all ne flying weathér in the world, that which prevails in Europe in the winter is the worst. This is going to have a restrictive influence on ‘the development and expansion of European air traffic. ‘ To nine passengers out of 10, reliability and punctuality are more ‘important than mere speed. The train may be three hours late, but even in post-war Europe it seldom is five days late, Even with the marvels of radar, it seems doubtful whether reliable year-round European air services can be provided, for a long time to come. On grounds of economy, the British government decided not to install Fido, the wartime invention of the British ministry of petroleum, which enables fog over any airfield to be literally burned away. This device enabled hundreds of British and .American bombers, returning from Germany, to make safe landings when the weather closed in completely.

Some Improvement Seen MY FRIENDS in England often speak enviously to me of my ability as a newspaper correspondent to travel about Europe. I always tell them they have no conception how disagreeable and uncomfortable traveling is today. ; But things are beginning ‘to improve. Already you can travel from London to Paris by train and boat, via Newhaven-and Dieppe, in about 14 hours, which compares favorably with the three days and one hour or four days and one hour which it would very likely take you by air. Weather forecasting is one of the sciences which is supposed to have made made advances; but it still is in its infancy. Predictions often are inaccurate; they change from hour to hour, A decision to cancel a flight never is taken until all the passengers are assembled at the airport and then very likely it .is only a postponement and you are kept hanging around the airfield halt a day. All of which explains why I in 1846, the second year of thé Atohife Age; to be able te travel in a nice, old-fashioned train drawn by a steam locomotive which pérhaps would take me where I want to go on time. I would gladly sell all my rights in the brave new air agé to the leisure classes who can afford, if any of them still exist, to conduct their journeys leisurely by air.

IN WASHINGTON—

New Homes By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Even if all goes well it will be nearly #27 spring before veterans can move °° into-any of the 100,000 temporary 4 housing units which Uncle Sam plans to make available for big cities. Temporary housing units now vacant must be dismantled, moved and re-erected. Army and navy barracks, which are to’ provide 25,000 of these units, must be converted and in some cases move and reerected. Philip Klutznick, federal public pousing authority hgad, said the schedule is to get these houses moved and re-erected within 60 days after approval of the application "of a city or university. But there are many complications. First; if. the

must have the land available and. utilities ready to connect.

Shortage of Labor THEN THERE is labor. The moving will be done by contract. Many contractors report a shortage of labor for this type of work. Applications for available temporary housing are now being received at federal housing regional offices. In some areas, such as in Texss, applications already have been received for more temporary housing units than are available: Mr. Klutznick said‘ that the available “100,000 housing units “certainly will not last long” A virtual flood of applications. is expected to hit regional

the bill making $191 millon available to pay the costs of moving and re-erecting these units. Mr. Klutznick said the regional offices would allocate available housing to meet only the most acute situations. , “The available supply.” he said. “is not nearly sufficient to meet immediate néeds but it should be enough to take the edge off: a desperate need.” Surplus housing in excess of current demand In one area will be available for assignment to fill needs in other areas.

Selection of Tenan}s CITIES and universities receiving temporary housing will select tenants. They must agree to

and their families, and to fix rentals within the tenants’ financial means. They also must agree to tear down the temporary structures after they are no longer required for veterans*-use. This is in accordance with the Lanham . act under terms of which the housing was built to accommodate war workers. Most of the vacant war housing is in small t where it was used by war workers, War h that is not moved or converted will continue to be made available to distressed yelatans or service fams{lies as vacancies ooour. «= No new construction v contemplated tthder the .| removal program. Except for the conversion of army and navy barracks and for the completion of some temporary houses on which construction was stopped at the war's end.

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offices next week now that the President has signed .

limit occupancy to distressed veterans or servicemen

“IT I8 a terrible commentary on America that in a few short years we“shall kill more people on the roads

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