The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
Straight From
Washington
By STEPHEN NJ. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

law should be amended in many re-
spects. Certainly the maximum age
should be lowered Too frequently
there is too great an economic loss in
volved in taking from his employ
ment or position young man in his
late twenties or in his thirties. Fur
thermore, the younger the draftee the
more years he can give active service
IN the reserve in event of emergency.
Very likely boys Of Is who have
graduated from high school and young
men Of 10 and 20 should be called up
on to register rather than young men
Of 30 to 80. 25 would be good maxi
mum.
Poison Gas
Germans for months have been pur-
chasing ten times more arsenic than
| they purchased in normal times Does
this Indicate that German poison gas
| factories are working overtime to
| manufacture poison gas for final
| devastating invasion Of England? In
| cidently, our people should know that
Uncle Sam is alert and our well armed
forces are prepared to use poison gas
to meet poison gas attacks of any
country. This form of warfare is out
lawed but no nation seems to pay any
| attention to international law now
adays.
Panzer Divisions for America
In speeding up the national defense
program we must not become jttery.
We should not call from their homes
into camps millions of young men. We
| now have more than one million five
hundred thousand young men in the
American armed forces. 1t would be
well to bear in mind that it took only
one hundred twenty thousand we'll
| equipped, well-armed, German SOL
diers to conquer all of France Twelve
completely mechanized German Pan
ger divisions supported by few
thousand airplane pilots destroyed the
French armies and the French Repub-
lie. The rest of the huge German
army simply followed and occupied
the territory which Hitler's mechan-
ized troops had taken.
| America needs a compact, COM
pletely mechanized army, two ocean
navy, and the strongest air force in
the world. America does not need
to draft two million men into our
armed forces.
National Defense Profits
| Higher excess profits taxes should
be levied by this Congress. Such taxes
will touch profits accruing to industry
from the natiopal defense program.
Nobody has made many sacrifices to
national defense except the boys who
have been drafted.
Mans lnhumanity To Man
| A Congressional investigation would
not be amiss to investigate Georgia
prison camps; In fact, prison camps
in any states if it is said that prison.
ers are mistreated. In Little Alca-
traZ," prison camp in Paulding
County, Georgia, three boys Of II, Is
and 10 serving sentences for robbery
deliberately broke their own right
legs. This occurred less than a month
ago. 4 year ago six convicts delib-
erately shattered their own legs in
the same camp.
Churches
Congressman are working on a new
tax law. 4 few want credit for con-
tributionS to charitable, relief and edu-
cational organizations to be eliminated
from income tax returns. 1t is said
that if the churches got all the money
people claim in their income tax re-
turns to have given them, our churches
| would he rolliOcr II, u-aal-b
South vs.. North
\ tip off for the real Congressional
anti-Strike activity was revealed when
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas
wrote to Massachusetts,, Bring your
industries to Texas. We know what
to do with strikers. We throw them
in jail Some Southern leaders are
trying to build up the South at the
expense of the North. Southern Con-
gressmen seem more hot-headed and
warlike than Northern Congressman.
At this time were a vote in the House
Of Representatives to be taken Of only
Members from below the Mason Dixon
Line, believe large majority would
favor immediate declaration of war
against germany. Were the question
Of conveys to be submitted to these
Members there would be an almost
unanimous vote in favor of conveys.
No doubt it is fortunate that Congress
is true cross-section of the Ameri-
can people. Southern Congressman
are the "fghtingest" and most fire
eating of all. One attending Con-
gressional debates can readily under
stand how the Civil War, which they
refer TO as the War between the
States" lasted four years instead of
the three months which it should have
taken US in the North to subdue the
| South