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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
TO RECEIVE LETTERS

kalamazoo. Mich. Nov cap
The Kalamazoo College Athletic
Board announced today that %
members of the schools football
squad would receive letters. The
letter winners are Harold Blakely.
Steve Dalla, Dick Elsby, Richard
Lemmer. Mickey Van Keuren, Paul
Van Keuren. Robert Wearne. Ge--
aid Gilman, Neil Gleason. Francis
Thompson, Roberr Vanderberg and
Don Rayman. all Of Kalamazoo:
Clark Bowman, lansing; Claude
Cranston. Linden: Leo Lythe. Rob
ert Heistand and Ronald Smith, of
Galesburg; Ernest Wood; Douglas
Graham. Long Beach, N. Y; Joel
Clay. Galesburg: Richard Haas,
Wilmette. H.: Robert Anderson,
Evanston, ILL.,, and Tommy Thomp-
son, Detroit.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29

READING BowLERs

Flint Mich Nov 20 ~ Joe
Bodi- and Walter, kenet. cleveland
bowlers Who won the doubles title
a year ago 81 their home city. ar
the hcadiucr> of bow crs who Wi.l
participate over the week end 600
the -eud annual CnuM States
To uament ar the Flint Rr.ca
ton
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
SPiTFIRES WIN

Windsor. Ont. Nov. 29-lNS
The windsor Spitfres OF the Michi-
gan Ontario League "Wednesday
night defeated the Toledo Babcocks
G to in a Michigan Ontario Hook
ey League game.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29

meet winning streak to q straight
this season.
Following is the summary OF the
first ten finishers:
Lash, Observation-Disclosures,
3O:25s.
Price. South Bend Athletic
Association. 30:44
3-Beccali, New York A. c.. 81
20.
Quinn, Michigan Normal, 81
%.
Temper, Michigan Normal,
1926.
8 Rafferty, New York A. c.
32:41.
7-tPentti, New York A. c., 49,
AZ.
S-venzke. New YORK A. C, 81
43.
9 De George, New York A. c.
32:49.
10 WIT Observation-Disclosures,
32:53.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29
CONTEST FOR Y.H.S.
NATAT0RS POSTPONED

Ypsilanti High Schools swimming
team will get some much needed ad
ditional practice before It will have
to engage in its first meet OF the
season. since the meet with Ann
Arbor High, which was scheduled
for this afternoon. has been post
poned until December II. The meet
with the Alumni next Tuesday eve.
ming will thus he the initial test
OF the season for the Braves.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
Elizabeth Curley
Flynn to Speak
In Butte

| In her first visit to Butte since the
days of the old Western Federation of
Miners, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Irish
American woman leader, will speak
at the Miners Union Hall on Thursday
evening, August 18th, under the au-
spices of the local Communist party.
Gurley Flynn is well-known in Butte
war in defense of labor prisoners. She
was one of those who remained true
to the working class and continued the
fight against war in the face of the
terror of the professional patriots.
Today, she is continuing that fight as
of the Communist party and secretary
of the Defense Committee for Civil
Rights to Communists, speaking on a
national tour in defense of American
civil liberties and against the war
drive.
An authority on the revolutionary
traditions of Ireland, Mrs. Flynn was
pleased to accept the invitation of the
Butte Communists to speak here even
though Butte is well out of the way
of her tour. She recalls the militancy
of the Irish men and women of Butte,
and was glad of an opportunity to re-
new old friendships.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn has rich
background in the labor movement.
She joined the IWW in the early days
of IFS existence. She was one of the
organizers of the defense committee
for Big Bill Haywood when the min
ing moguls were trying to smash the
Western Federation of Miners by
framing that most militant of metal
miners leaders. She was imprisoned
in the great Spokane free speech fight.
She was active in the Patterson Silk
strike.
Mrs. Flynn is well acquainted with
the traditions of Butte and is proud
of that knowledge.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL TRADITION A
FACTOR IN CLOSING OF BURMA ROAD

move is significant "We," he says
have persistently asserted our desire
| to see assured to China a free and
independent future, and we have as
frequently expressed our desire to i'm
prove our relations with Japan"
Besides, Mr.. Churchill told the
House of Commons, the British are
engaged in a life and death struggle
in which evidently they are willing
to sacrifice any number Of obligations
and commitments and the property
and lives of a considerable number of
Chinese.
The issue is clearer than most.
British rulers were compelled to
choose between Chinese freedom and
independence, and imperial Japans
victory and domination. Like good
old imperialist Mr.. ChurchilPs gov
eminent has once more followed it's
customary imperialist line and sided
with Japan.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
By SCOTT NEARING

The Chinese ruling classes are fight
ing a bitter war of independence tc
free themselves from the invading
unequal. The Chinese superiority in
man-power is more than offset by the
immense Japanese superiority in war
material.
The Chinese must import vital war
equipment such as artillery, planes,
tanks, trucks and oil. Since the oc-
cupation of all Chinese seaports by
the Japanese navy, the Chinese have
been getting their supplies through
French Indo-China, through British
controlled Burma and across the Cobb
desert from the Soviet Union.
Before their defeat at the hands Of
Germany, the French had yielded to
Japanese threats and agreed to close
the IndoChina route. Japanese bombs
completed the embargo by Gripping
the railroad. That left the Chinese
with two corridors to the outside
world-Burma and the Cobb desert.
The British ruling classes, in the
udLlC VI uOiuOCldCy anu OuI lSlidu CIV
ilization, are fighting bitter war of
survival against their great European
rivals, the ruling classes of Germany.
1t is life and death struggle, with
the odds thus far against the British
British statesmen would be glad,
for the moment at least, to let the Far
East alone until they have settled
accounts with the Germans, but the
statesmen of Japan are using the
European crisis to squeeze the British
out of Asia To this end, they have
affronted, insulted, bombed and ex-
cluded British subjects and British
interests in China.
Now, after months of negotiation,
they have obtained an agreement I'M
der which Britain will close the Bur-
ma road for three months to arms
and ammunition, oil, trucks, medicines
and railway material destined for
China The agreement makes it i'm
possible for the Chinese to get war
material except from the Soviet I'm !
ion. In effect, the British agree to |
throttle the Chinese government for |
80 days while the Japanese stab it |
to death.
The Churchill explanation of this
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
Planning For

CONTINUED From Page One)
| System terms. But regardless we hat
an ABUNDANCE.
| Did the farmers make a lot more
money because of this increased pro
duction? The Commodity Credit Cor
poration's books don't look like it. Il
a man makes money he pays off his
loans, or at least keeps up the inter
est; but the CCC had defaults in con
Injection with crop loans so that the
government now owns 6,S67O 900 bales
of cotton, or more than half the
amount of the 1899 crop; also Uncle
Sam now possesses 80 million bushels
of wheat and vast stores of other COM
modities.
The Farm Credit Administration re-
ported a few weeks ago that on jan
uary 1, 1910 the Federal Land Bank
had delinquent installments on loans
totaling 1862, 5S5,OOO just about one
quarter of the total of all loans.
Those items don't indicate that the
farmer had been making money hand
over fist. Perhaps here are few of
the reasons why: Using the period
1904 (very prosperous times) as a
base for comparison, we find:
Average prices of commodities
bought by farmers are up 1870.
Average rates paid in interest and
taxes by farmers are up $3.50.
Average unit exchange value of
farm products is down 20%.
Let's quit calling this 1.-THE Amer
lean Way" and name it properly: The
Price System Way.
The very basis of price" or "Value"
is SCARCITY.
But we continue to produce ABUN-
DANCE in spite of the various meth
DDS of curtailment. We can not help
1t, for a man has to produce some
thing to sell in order to live. You
can not suspend the inevitable laws
Of nature.
Our agricultural scientists make it
tougher on Uncle Sam each year, too.
For instance, in six years the average
U. S. yields per acre have increased
119o for cotton; $40 for corn and
26% for wheat.
The sooner that we reafize that we
are headed for ABUNDANCE, and
start planning on ways to handle it,
he better off we will be.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
TEXAS EDUCATORS
CHALLENGE DIES
TO NAME REDS

Angry board members from seven
Texas state teachers colleges have
demanded that Rep. Martin Dies d.,
Tex either put up or shut up on his
charge that one of the colleges had a
communist president and basketball
coach.
Refusing to name the suspected col
lege, Dies admitted the charges might
not be true. Homer Brooks, secretary
of the state communist party, de-
scribed the committee report as an
out-and-out fabrication.
Dies said a student from a state
college attended gathering of COM
munist party members in Fort Worth
last summer. Brooks was supposed
to have claimed college officials as
members then.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
More FILA Loans
Sought in Montana

Montanans applied for building loans
totaling $2,453,800 from the federal
housing administration during the first
seven months of this year, gain of
1867 over the number in the same
period last year, according to Ben
Hill, director of the FILA for Montana.
May of this year set an all time
high for the FILA in Montana, with
applications totaling s553,000 received
at Helena. The figure for July was
slightly less, 100000 The July ap-
plications came from 35 Montana
cities and towns.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
|Industry's Strike
Against Covenant
Recalls Nye Finding

| WASHINGTON. 1.-THE only lesso
that history teaches is that history
lessons are never learned" Thi
adage was again borne out during tn
recent skirmish between the govern
ment and armament makers over ma
4tional defense orders.
In its report to the Senate in 1893
the Nye committee said of experience
in the last war:
"A strike is "a stoppage of produc
ton in order to gain certain demands
The term has generally applied to the
actions of labor, but the committee
has pointed out that in time of wal
corporations and industries can ant
will take course of action which is
really strike by industry against the
government. :"
Though strikes by labor were pro
Ihibited as unpatriotic and treasonous
during the last war. the Nye commit
tee charged that industry frequently
struck against the government. At a
crucial period in the war, for example,
when the government was desperately
trying to induce a certain company
which controlled 5000 of the smokeless
powder output to increase production
by building new plant, the Nye re-
port states that a strike of several
months duration ensued.
1.-THE government offered to pay
every dollar of expense to advance
S1,000,000 on account of profit, and to
pay additional profit as determined by
arbitration. This was rejected by the
board of directors upon the
of Mr.. Pierre dupont.
He wrote that we cannot assent
to allowing our own patriotism to in
terfere with our duties as trustees for
the stockholders AT the time, he
was one of the ten largest holders of
the company's common stock"
Having finally secured the terms
that it was striking for, the company
built plant called Old Hickory with
put risk to ITSELF; and although the
plant operated for only a few weeks,
It yielded a net profit of $1,961, $50.
1t is now evident that recent delays
over the signing of airplanes and naval
contracts allow this same pattern. In
iustry has been out on a general
strike refusing to embark on the ma
ional defense orders until three con-
litions are met:
l. That they be permitted to write
,ff' plant expansion in five years
'ather than at the low legal rate of
IS years. Thus, revenue otherwise
axable as profits" can avoid taxation
md be written off as depreciation
This results in higher prices on gov
,rnment orders as overhead costs are
written up.
2. That present law (Vinson-Tram- |
nell Act limiting profits on aviation |
nd naval contracts to so be repealed |
3. That the Presidential program |
of a steeply graduated profits tax |
o be applied to all individual and all
organizations" be with
Irawn.
Though the Administration has al
eady accepted these conditions, in |
ustry is insisting that Congress pass
he necessary legislation before it ac-
ually signs any contracts. Press re-
eases from government agencies stat
1g that contracts for airplanes had
cen completed" are completely mis-
sading, since they have not been
igned but only drafted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
MEDICAL CARE URGED

WASHINGTON (FP) - Adoption
of program to provide medical SUI
pervision and care, which health edu-
cation and proper nutrition with Sc
lected diets for industrial workers, for
young persons in training for industry
and for children who are future work
ers on national defense is advocated
by Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07

NEWARK.-(FP)-The plant of the
American Hair & Felt Co., manufac-
turer of material for mattresses, was
shut down Aug. by strike of $50
workers. The walkout was called by
Local 163, United Furniture Workers
(CIO), which is seeking 15c hourly
wage increases, closed shop and
seniority rights.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-07
reason be affected.

reason be affected.
All of this proposed legislation
should meet with utter defeat in con-
gress. Individuals should write per-
sonal letters to Senators and Con-
gressmen asking that they act and
vote against every item mentioned
above.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

Constantine Brown. of heavy tanks
Is no longer handicap. These are
not needed in the event Of a German
invasion. The Atlantic fleet is ready
for any emergency and the morale
Of the men is high.
This is the picture of Great Britain
as it awaits the German onslaught,
expected within few days-f not
hours.
Britain Weak in Air.
But In spite of this rosy picture,
which offlcial quarters have received
this week from observers, there
is great apprehension regarding
Britain's ability to Withstand for
long a co-ordinated Italian German
attack.
What The German strategy will be
Is, Of course, undssclosed. But 1t
is believed the Reich will not ven.
ture landing until 1t has hammered
down the British defenses by strong
air attacks.
While Britain has in all probability
between 1000 and 5000 airplanes-a
respectable defensive force-the
combined German-Italian air might
Is put at upwards of $1,000 planes.
Because the British Isles are narrow,
determined raids can bring about
severe destruction in spite Of the
bravery of the defenders. The to.
talitarians are supreme In Europe
now and do not fear any attack in
the rear-not even from Russia-at
the present time.
The German submarines and mos
quito boats, strengthened by soma
Italian units and by the French SUBJ
marines which were captured in the
Atlantic ports, will exercise a severe
blockade of the British coasts.
Food Supply Is Problem.
Food supplies from the continent
no longer are forthcoming. Sup.
plies from the dominions and COL
onies are still arriving, but as soon
as the German blockade by sea and
air starts in earnest it is doubtful
whether any supply ship will be
able to put into British ports. Tho
ports, 1t is believed in military quar-.
ters here, will be the main targets
OF the German attack.
Ninety per cent of the British
warehouses and factories are on the
surface. Britain started belatedly
TO initiate the Germans by building
suoterranean stores and aircraft
factories. The landing fields are
close together because of the mar
roWness of the isles, hence they are
exposed to attack. The Reich gen.
eral staff undoubtedly will adopt
the same methods it has used in
Poland, Norway, the Netherlands.
Belgium and France. The German
dive bombers will endeavor to at.
tack and destroy the British air.
planes on the ground. while the
nghters will give battle in the air
Since the totalitarians have at least
q three-to-one air superiority the
balance weighs heavily in Their
favor.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

mended, but no reference is made
to any particular amendments as
expressing the platform objective.
The platforms commendation of
social security and a continuance Of
benefit payments in agriculture Is
not surprising. The Republican
campaign this time is apparently
to accept most Of the objectives of
the New Deal, but to insist that
the New Deal has failed to carry
them out in fairly written legisla-
ton or in a fair or efficient ad-
ministration.
Impersonal Attack.
The declaration against third
term takes the form Of proposal
that the Constitution be amended.
This is about all the Republicans
could do, for they do not know
what the Democratic convention
intends. The challenge uttered by
Herbert Hoover to the Democrats to
renominate Mr.. Roosevelt shows
that the Republicans aren't going
to make any personal attack on
the President, but on the idea of
"a third term for any President"
Altogether, the Republicans have
wiggled out Of some uncomfortable
situations in writing their platform.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

tain her traditional business system for months while
provision the Reich with the materials for economic and military
at the minimum cost of reducing the United States
German economic colony while Germany
Western Hemisphere.
This is not fancy Last night
sat IN lofty apartment and listened to Of conservative Repub
means sip discuss
ADMITTED that 1t
ing over to Hitler the indemnity
coming getting " -
For here the the G. O p
trying honestly but confusedy emergency
average American will not work long hours sacrifice
iort ne is working Tor private employer who
th process the same American will work
ana Will life
this issue met both here and Washington
vntn in Chicago there's pretending
dend
100000
Evening star., 1940-06-27
The Political Mill
Thunderous Gallery Demonstration for
WiIlkie Brings Claim Of 'Pockinq'

nation for President. 1t was
: charged then that Tammany had
packed the galleries with its fol-
lowers, AL Smith being a member
Of Tammany in high standing. The
same kind Of thing took place in
the Chicago convention Of 1892,
when AL Smith was again a candi-
date for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination against the then
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York. In Chicago, as in New York,
1t was charged that Tammany, aid
ed and abetted by the chairman Of
the Democratic organization, had
packed the galleries for Smith.
The late Senator Thomas J.
Walsh Of Montana, who died soon
after he had been picked for the
post OF Attorney General in the
cabinet Of President Roosevelt and
before the President was inaugu-
rated, was permanent chairman OF
the two Democratic National Con-
ventions. It was Senator Walsh's
firmness that kept the conventions
from going into absolute chaos be-
cause OF these demonstrations. But
these demonstrations taught the
Democrats a lesson-and gave an
exhibition to the country that was
not at all f1attering to the organizers
OF such political strategy. The Smith
demonstrations ran for an hour
and that for Mr.. Willkie last night
was only 10 minutes. The Dewey
demonstration ran for 26 minutes,
and that for Taft % minutes.
Many Real Willkie-ites.
There is not the slightest doubt
that many Of the people in the gall
leries last night were strong for
Willkie and they used their voices
to show it. Perhaps there were
enough supporters to put on a good
demonstration without running in a
lot of specialists in noise effects
and cheering. There really seemed
to be no good reason at all for
issuing tickets to a Willkie claque-
If that were really done Mr.. Pryor
denies it fatty.
Representative Martin of Massa-
chusetts, permanent chairman of
the convention, is used to more or
less stormy times in the House of
Representatives, where he is leader
OF the Republicans. He showed him.
self equal to the occasion and did
not let the convention or the Dewey
cheerers get away from him. Mr..
Martins ambition is to be Speaker
Of the House, and this he will be
unless the lightning should strike
him here and he becomes the party's
presidential nominee or the Repub-
llcans fail to elect majority of
the House next November.
The last Republican convention
at which big demonstrations for
candidates were staged was that
in Chicago in 1920 when the late
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, former
Gov. Frank o. Lowden of Illinois
and Senator Hiram johnson of
California were the leading con-
tenders. There was in that con-
vention something like the bitter
ness that has developed in, this
between the followers of Taft and
Dewey and of Willkie. In those days
no restriction was placed against
the parading Of bands around the
convention hall. leading the march,
ing delegates in these demonstra-
tions, whipped up by the music.
Chairman Martin placed a ban on
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Girl Scouts to Hold
Fushion Show SATURDAY.

Members of Girl Scout Troop 153
will hold fashion show Saturday
afternoon, beginning at o'clock, at
1887 Connecticut avenue NV. They
will model dresses made during their
recently completed sewing course.
Three prizes are to be awarded fol-
lowing judging by Mrs. Amos A.
Fries, member of the District Coun-
Gil of Girl Scouts; Mrs. H. H. D.
Sterrett, wife of DR.. Sterrett Of All
Souls Episcopal Church, where the
troop meets, and Miss Dorothy
Faulkner, fashion stylist.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

The truth is, the nominee of the
convention has been given a series
Of planks broad enough to let him
fill in the details as the exigencies
of campaigning and changing events
may require between now and No
vember. And that's about all that
can be expected Of politically chosen
platform makers in the hectic days
and nights of national convention
Of either major party.
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