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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Thomas Paine, Long on Fame
But Short on Worldly Goods
BY DAMON RUNYON

IN contemplating the career of
the greatest columnist Amer
lea has ever known, we are
minded to advise Mr.. Winchell.
Miss Thompson, Mr. Pegler,
General johnson and all other
columnists to save their moo.
lest they wind up in the same
sad financial ease as this fellow
we arc going to talk about. He
wound up a bum IN the matter
of the worlds goods
Our man was not only Ameri-
cas- all-time greatest columnlSt.
but in point of Importance he
was a towering giant. His pen
was more potent than George
Washington sword. Were he
alive today and had he not writ
ten one certain item of his
works. he would be valuable
newspaper syndicate property
With that item standing against
him. however. he would not be
worth a nickel. Too many read
ers would boycott his papers.
His name was Thomas Paine.
II is not much heard nowadays
One line he wrote is sometimes
quoted, but probably few Of
those who quote if know what
comes next, if, indeed. they
know the name of the author.
This line written by the flick
ering light of a campfire in the
dark. uncertain days of the rev.
olution. is the first line of an
immortal document. II reads
These are the times that try
mems souls"
II is the opening line Of the
first of a series Of what today
we would perhaps call columns,
entitled The Crisis"
OF COURSE we know VIC are
" taking some license in plac-
ing Paine as a columniSi. He
was a newspaperman but he did
not write a regular column as
the columnistS do today He
wrote pamphlets because in his
time that was the way YOU got
:. things before the. public. but we
think psnaphleteer--e Corresponds
to the columnists Of the present.
II is cinch Miss Thompson
would haze been a pamphleteer
in Paine's day. and probably a
good one, though we reckon She
would have demanded more
illumination than a campfire az
fords. Most likely She would
have required at, least baby
spotlight.
We looked up the only refer
ence we happen to have at hand
al the moment TO brush up
bit on Paine. II is an encyclo-
pedia. and we marvelled at the
paltry space and credit given
this tremendous man, whose
passion for liberty did so much
10 arouse the revolt against
oppression. who may have writ
ten the declaration Of independ-
ence, and whose words seething
from his peH-.''E'-sPiritual fire
and blood preserved the very
soul of the Revolution through
the weary years.
Maybe if Paine had not writ
ten his injudicious attack on
religion. The Age of Reason =
his stature would loom greater
than any other individual against
the background of our most
critical and the most important
period Of our history. II offended
the many. But that was long
after he had written his cry for
freedom. Common Sense of
which over 100000 copies were
distributed. a regular Winchell
circulation for those days. and
after The Crisis"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
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BAERIN9 DOWN on lie NEWS
Some Tins for Ma
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Ma Perkins poured for the House Military Affairs
Committee and the boys soaked their bbs
Ma also told few fortunes in the soggy and
when Congressman Thomas asked she believed in sabo
tage. Ma said II think will wait eghdollar question"
I'm quizzline kid but after reading Mas answers m
convinced she older than her testimony The
Ike Snow White breaking the candy door knob eff Ali Babas
Ma told the committee that when she hears Of a Com
muns IN labor strike she busy little fingers
Whereupon the committee pulled hair BY roots
dropped mickey finn t punch and reported progress
Ma strikes Just like lunch where the indus
tous little workmen gossip about trivial affairs like world
wars and curl up with good 6Sipage book
In the meantime the nation is sailing salt Creek
leaking Ike water tank abandoned railroad
by International New SERVE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

II REVEALS tactical informa-
ton that might otherwise not
have been available but the ar
rival could not have been con-
cealed in an open harbor and il
was high-handed and silly to
suppress II.
This inexperienced and arbi-
trary aspect of war government
has put pressure on the most
experienced and expert manu-
iacturerS TO locate. and manage
plants IN areas where their own
Judgment and exhaustive expert
surveys have indicated that
prompt. economical and effi-
clehi operation Is impossible
1t Is showing an ever-increas-
ing impotence with any other
opinion than its own on tech
meal production problems. Al
ready the courage even 10 argue
against II is becoming rare. It
is all not merely bad democracy.
II IS also the worst kind of
judgment for production. This is
an axiom of good factory man
agement. even Of forcmen. Sell
en-. Don't show en-
DISTRIBUTED by King Features sgnd In,
Reproductiau IN whole af IN part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

HERE are the German subs
II which in 1918 ranged around
our front yard. sinking ships
with no retaliation. U-53, U-I5I,
U-l56. U-l40. L III, U-155.
U-152. U-139.
What about today. with The
tremendously increased range
and power Of the German un-
dcrSea boats? There's nothing
10 get jlttery about and our
defensive resources are by no
means limited TO monkey
wrench.
But Mr.. James thinks IT
wouldn't do TO feel too safe and
satisfied. He writes:
"If America did not learn It's
lesson of unpreparedness from
its experience with the U-boat
raiders. there il none to blame
hut its military advisers. II
haif-dozen submarines could
wreak havoc under such I'M
favorable conditions as the
t-boats operated in 1918. what
might he the result should n
Snpet-poueF sent II entire fleet
Of super-submarines to our
shores at the outbreak of war?
Those who cry for peace
when there il no peace, and
bemoan the enormous expendi-
lures for capital ships TO be used
extensively. could have little
grievance toward naval pro-
gram that provided for the con-
struction of fleets of destroyers.
sub-chascrs, patrol boats and
minesweepers. which could he
used solely for defensive pur-
poses"
Distributed rs kinE- Eealufes synd-r IAA-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
BY HUGH =. JOHNSON

GAN FRANCISCO. April IL
- This question Of voluntary
press censorship To prevent mill
tary or naval information reach
ing a possible or potential enemy
is a prickly one.
In the first place, il is not
-pupely voluntary There IS no
statutory authority as yet to
demand the submission 10 some
GoStapo of news an editorial
comment for revision or editing
before publication But, as was
explained in a recent column,
there IS statutory authority to
punish by 20 years imprison-
ment any disclosure ei th er
through inadventence or design.
You publish al peril
Nobody doubts that there
should be the utmost care not
TO reveal in press dispatches IN
formation that might help an
enemy. But what kind of infor-
nation is in that category? It
is a question of judgment That
judgment will be exercised by
the publishers under the afore-
mentioned threat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
DETR0T1s TIMES

Published every Week Day Evening and
Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
Company al 1925 Times Square. Detroit,
Mich.
Entered at Detroit. Mich. as Second Class
Mail Matter.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Censorship
Big Problem
For Editors
Trying 10 Hide OverlooI
Eye News Impossible

1.-THE opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not ncees-
sariIy those Of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

mentioned threat.
If THEY don't exercise IT well.
we shall have a compulsory
censorship and then as nearly
afffi authorities agree soo41-tby
freedom of the press and good
by democracy - unless the
rarest kind of judgment is eXer-
ciSed by the military and naval
CenSors.
That may come later but. at
the beginning. il Is not likely.
The official cenSors will be men
suffering through out slow pro-
motion systems from the effect
of years of plodding in positions
of no Importance and. by reason
of clustered lives, with only a
sketchy d Q a of anything OF
American life that is not found
in the army and navy drill and
other regulations and profess
Sional books.
Pushed overnight into posi-
tons of magically increased rank
and tremendous responsibility
this type is not likely TO be lib
eral, is apt to be completely CEN
serious. especially of criticism.
10 feel, like Atlas. The weight
of the world and with complete
authority, could be about as easy
10 get along with as y hybrid
cross between a ferocious tigress
guarding her young and par
tlcularly Self-Satisfied skunk.
OUT here in San Francisco. IL
" is already ''Verboten" 10
mention IN the press an event
which any one OF hundreds of
thousands of a very mixed popu-
lation on these hills can see on
the very visible bay by simply
lowering his eyes the arrival or
departure of a naval vessel.
Afler departure from Los An
geleS from whence this column
described its first encounter
with the growing Gestapo. the
press carried a report from there
that. before wheeling the super
bomber BIG out into the yard
for engine tests. canvass wall
had 10 be built around her TO
shut her off from the public
gaze.
1-can't understand this. Pho
toCraphS OF her have been pub
lShed to the four corners and
reams Of press writing have been
published about her. Thousands
of people have seen her. She
would be about as easy To con-
ceal with canvas wall as the
tower of Babel in the Sahara
desert on = bull in a china closet.
Al rest, her rear tail-fn rises
as high as a four-story building
and she is half as long as a
short, city block.
a damaged British battleShip
steamed into New York harbor
Under the eyes of millions. II
1l-----t'4fff tt-f,rii crafty suggested thai Tho
press not mention that and |
wouldn't if ii had not already
been published with photographs
Of tho damage. Il Is "A good
case IN point The photography
should have been omitted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

j. r. BROWNE,
1884 Sycamore street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

The struggle of mankind for
freedom has been struggle TO
limit the powers of the state"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

subscription rates tin advance by mail
10 any place IN the United states. Canada
Or Mexico
, 1941-11-12
SIX REASONS 0
ORGANIZATION
Article Two
insurance
BY III. ID. HussOng

What did people do before we
had unemployment insurance?
Some got by pretty good, they
were fortunately able to save
enough while employed to hold
over. Others through sickness in
the family, and many other ways
were not able to stand the strain.
The CLIO through its vast program
of organizing industrial plants
gained strength and then through
its legislative program helped to
put through this Unemployment
Insurance. The EIU of MGR is not
a real labor union unless it can
give the workers more protection
and representation in the making
of laws that help the workers to
gain more security through their
productive years. Through labor
representation the Ohio State I'm
employment Insurance has been
raised to $16 per week for an 1S-
week period. It Is certainly COM
ing in handy now, relieving the
many who are unemployed due
to the priorities of National De-
tense Materials.
The UE-CIO is the Union be-
cause it fills the bill. This is 1871
not 1901.
Join the CIO and be an active
member, help further this law 80
we can have balance to this per-
picking problem of unemployment.
, 1941-11-12

Brown Bear and the Big Brown
Bear. Each one of us is subject
to the same working conditions;
each one of us must petition the
same people in order to better
our situation. Individually we
might ask favors of the Little
Brown Bear. Collectively we can
bargain with him! Are you man
or mouse?
Figure it out for yourself. The
odds are all in our favor. There
are four hundred of us and only
two Browns. But in order to get
the top odds we must all move
together. We must support each
other, we must have union. You
join the Union, support the Union,
and support YOUR Shop Com
mittee. In return you get the
support of every other Union
member. You fight for the rights
of your fellow worker and your
fellow worker fights for you. If
you refuse your cooperation you
not only succeed in knitting your
fellow worker in the back, but
you do exactly the same thing to
yourself. The Union members at
Brown and Brockmeyer are ready
to fight for what we all want.
ARE YOU p?
, 1941-11-12

are you just foolhardy enough to
intentionally disobey the National
Labor Relations Act -. . for which
there are severe consequences, az
you will soon see.
Just because your pet, the EU,
doesn't care to enforce the law,
you're not safe. The Go not only
knows there is a law against dis
elimination of this sort-but it
intends to see that it Is enforced
at MGR For true bargaining rights
for better working conditions
-. for better pay and for
all your rights as an United States
citizen SIGN A CIO
AUTHORIZATION CARD NoWl
, 1941-11-12
PROGRAM ADOPTED

In the evening the conference
delegates, after having heard re-
ports from key areas in the State,
met for panel dismussion on De-
Tense Contracts and Employment,
Rising Cost of Living, and De-
tense Job Training. These three
panels lead by Glenn Gillingham,
Arthur L. Garfield, Alexander
Adie, Joseph Vejlupek, E J.
Kraft, Joseph Kres, respectively,
then reported their findings to
the assembled delegations.
The recommendations urged
each Local Union to Immediately
establish a Defense Employment
Committee, to keep in touch with
all government defense agencies,
such as the Labor Supply Division,
Contracts Division, and Training
within Industry Division of OPM.
Locals were urged to place their
names on the mailing list for all
OPM publications and bulletins,
including the magazine DEFENSE.
The Conference adopted a pro-
gram against freezing of wages,
but urged a ceiling be placed on
the cost of food, rent, and cloth
ing as well as other necessary
items. Government investigation
and prosecution of spectators and
profiteers was urged. Delegates
were asked to form committees in
their own communities to fight
against rising living costs.
Copies of the entire program are
to be sent to all Local Unions, and
the program itself has been re-
ferred to the UEs General Execu-
tive Board for adoption as the
basis for national UE policy.
, 1941-11-12
I1'os COLLECTION
> DELCO
It pays TO keep
your dues paid
to date

Eight members Of the Delco
Local 755 have found that prompt
payment of dues have resulted in
receiving benefits. Full payment
has been collected by these work.
ers who have lost time in the shop
due to illness.
You must have your dues paid
to date in order to be eligible! For
example, if you dues are paid on
the first of the month and you
lose time due to illness, you are
eligible. If the current months
dues are not paid, you are not a
member in good standing and for
felt your weekly benefits.
Make N. G.. IL. Next
, 1941-11-12

the Union operated on about the
same principle as Cinderalla's
fairy godmother-you know, the
old girl makes a few fancy passes
with her magic stick and every
thing turns into apple pie. It
makes a nice story but it does not
make a very good working system.
Your Union does not work while
you sit back and watch it work.
It will only work when you make
it work. It works when you give
it your solid cooperation and de-
termination. You give it this be-
cause you are smart enough to see
that your own individual problems
are essentially the same as every
other workers in the plant. Each
one of us has to bargain with the
same management the Little
Hold the Fort, N. c. r.,
, 1941-11-12
State Wide Conference On
Defense And Employment

A highly successful state wide conference on National Defense
and Employment was held last Saturday afternoon and evening, by
the Ohio District Council of the at Dayton's Van
Cleve Hotel
The conference was held to work out a solution to problems
raised by necessary curtailment of consumer production. More than
$50 delegates, representing $4,000 workers in many key defense in
dustries of Ohio attended. Speakers included Mr.. Robert Glenn, OF
oPM Mr.. George Weigod, of the Ohio Employment Bureau, and MIR.
William Sentner, UE General Executive Board member. The con-
ference was chaired by the Ohio District President, Victor Decavitch,
Il warren Ohio.
, 1941-11-12

Outstanding event of the after
noon session was a dynamic report
on the progress of national de-
tense, by Sentner, who came to
Dayton from conferences with
OPM and Army officials in Wash
ington. Sentner pointed out the
blunders of the $1-a-year men
in Washington, and stated, 1T is
time these men gave way to hard
hitting executives, who really
want to do a job for the nation,
and not for any special interests"
, 1941-11-12
Err
EVENTS

The Union at Master Electric is
now a real, progressive organiza-
ton. No longer are the workers
asking what THE UNION is 60
ing to do for them. They are be-
ginning to realize more and more
every day, hat THEY r THE
UNION. They now say, WHAT are
WE going to do to make our
working conditions better and our
standards of living higher?
Thru the UNION they are find
ing the answers to these questions
and in finding these answers they
realize fully the meaning of a
UNION, the value and power of
a solid, well built organization.
Join the UNION and help your
fellow worker, When you help
them you are also helping your
self.
DON'T WAIT, DO YOUR
SHARE, JOIN THE UNION TO-
x
In any shop the Stewards play
a very definite part in the func-
ton of the UNION. There is a
definite procedure to be followed
by the Steward in the collection
and recording of initiation fees and
monthly dues.
As soon as possible after re-
ceiving money from a member,
either as payment on initiation fee
or monthly dues, a white sheet
should be made out by the
Steward, in his collection pad. This
sheet should show plainly the
name of the Steward, the depart
ment, the date, and the amount
paid by the member. If the pay
ment is dues, the month should be
| clearly stated, if initiation, it
| should be stated. At the end of
the week this sheet should be
totaled and the full amount writ
ten in the proper place. Then,
this sheet, along with the proper
amount of money is turned over
to the financial secretary, who
then makes out a receipt for the
full amount. The yellow sheet in
the pad should be retained by the
Steward for his record.
The Steward also has a Stew
ards ledger. In this book there
should be the name, address, etc.
of each man or woman that he
collects from. A complete record
is kept in this book and it is very
important that this ledge be kept
up to date. We are sure sure that
the cooperation of all the Stewards
will be appreciated by your
Financial Secretary.
, 1941-11-12
The Story Of The Two Bears
or Little and Big Brown

Too many times at B Il B the question has been asked, Why
doesn't the Union do something about it," There is nothing wrong
with the question. The Union should and generally does do something
about it. The trouble here is with the way the question is asked.
People doing the asking manage to sound Is though they thought that
, 1941-11-12
MGR
Gle4
AND
gaAw4

We would really like to know
why it is that when MIR. Creamer
comes up to see MIR. Coleman, they
have to 90 back In a corner to
talk -. You wouldn't be Co
operating on discrimination, would
You, boys?
X
We have still another example of
fairness in equal pay for equally
good work" Our new foreman
raised the rates for some of the
underpaid boys up to the rate
received by the majority of hand
screw operators. This rate is $1.10
per hour as soon as someone found
out one of these boys belonged to
the Go, his rate went back to
% per hour.
X
Now, we say to the job bosses,
the foreman and the whole super
vision Of ECR . are you too
dumb to know the law 49,. or
, 1941-11-12
Gondert and
Lienesch Rates
Set u .

A meeting with management on
rate adjustments were held with
Mr.. c. A. Gondert and Mr.. Ted
Lienesch to work out a rate sys-
tenn for the plant.
Local BOG, UE, was represented
by Mr.. K. M. Kirkendall with the
Rate Committee composed of M. r.
Ross, Otha Gose, John jackson,
Harry Mcfarland, Edwin Lyons,
and Chief Plant Steward, William
Tootle.
Rates were adjusted Immediate
ly for members to bring them to
the even rates of the shop. A
graduated system of increase was
set up and accepted by the men,
bership at their last meeting at
UE Local 8O6 Hall.
BE WISE, JOIN THE UE,
, 1941-11-12
Wanted

The Ladies Auxiliary, Chapter
No. 1, wishes to announce that
they are going to sponsor a band
in the coming months. The
Chapter is asking that people
among the membership of the CLIO
in Dayton who are musically in
clined or talented, to please turn
their names into the Ladies Aux
iliary, Chapter No. I
, 1941-11-12

Hold the Fort, N. c. r.,
Here Comes the u. E!
, 1941-11-12

Make N. G. R. Next
Evening star., 1941-01-16

Hitler Paper Says Invasion
Would Have Avoided Grief

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 16.-German inva-
sion of Britain in the fall of 1910
would have spared the English peo-
pie some distress and grief because
the present form of aerial warfare
which was conjured up by Churchill
would have been avoided" Adolf
Hitlers Voelkischer Beobachter OBJ
served today.
The question as to why there was
no invasion after the retreat at Dur
kerque and after Frances defeat will
be answered by Germany at the op-
perfume time and mot only with
words" the paper said, warning that
the British must keep on expect
ing it.
1t added that vainly-waited inva-
sion had worsened England's stra-
tegic position and said the next six
months would not be idly wasted by
the Reich.
1t held that United States aid
could not be extensive in that pc
riod because experience taught that
1t was long way from the drafting
board to production.
Evening star., 1941-01-16
260th Coast Artillery
Gets First Mail TONIGHT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Jan. 16.-"Tent-
ing Tonight" is the theme song of
the rolling 26Oth Coast Artillery
Regiment of Washington as it
passed here shortly before 1890
o'clock this morning on the longest
individual lap of the 2466-mile
journey to El Paso, Tex. The dis
tance from Fort jackson at Colum-
bia, S. c., to WaycroSs, Ga, where
the men will encamp for the first
time tonight, is 262 miles. The
encampment is listed on the State
Fair Grounds on the edge of town
Col. Walter W.,Burns, commander
of the regiment, stated today that
the progress of the convoy has far
exceeded plans in speed. He is of
the opinion that the outfit will
arrive at the camp site today no
later than O'Clock. No mishaps,
due 10 engine Or tire trouble, have
occurred, which speaks we'll of
drivers and mechanics.
For the balance of the journey
the officers and enlisted men will
be quartered in tents Already the
convoy has passed out of the cold
weather zone and is now speeding
southWestWardly into the deep
South, where tenting is ideal.
At Waycross tonight, the first let
ters from back home" are expected.
Quite a large delivery of mail is
anticipated from wives, mothers and
sWeetneartS. Whether or not wave
of "homesickness" will be in evi-
dence after this mail delivery re-
mains to be seen. The regiment
departed from Columbia, S. c., at
7 o'clock this morning. Last night
it was quartered in heated bar
racks at Camp Jackson, similar to
those in which it was bivouacked at
Fort Bragg Tuesday night.
Col. Burns was particularly pleased
with the manner in which officials
at Fort Bragg and Fort Jackson
prepared for the regiment. Every
thing was in excellent order upon
arrival and Southern hospitality
was truly in evidence" at these
military reservations, the COM
mander said.