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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03

OUR OWN GALLUP POLL ON THE
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Question No. How do you feel
about America being the arsenal for
all victims of aggressor nations?
Yes 46 per cent.
No 4 per cent.
Not sure what the word arsenal
means so per cent.
Wouldn't mind being an arsenal if
it didn't interfere with weekend mo-
tor trip 8 per cent.
Question No. 2-What do you think
of the all-aid-short-of-wa idea?
Yes AZ per cent.
It's okay with me if it's okay with
you IL per cent.
All right if the emphasis is put
on the "short'' !. per cent.
Any man who calls what we are
doing short of war is a bad judge Of
distance 80 per cent.
Question No. 3-Do you think the
lag in our defense program is Sc
rious?
Yes and no IS per cent.
Undecided per cent.
Think what America needs most
is a lag in microphone 60 per
cent.
Wouldn't know a lag if I saw one
/ per cent.
Question No. 4-Do you think
America is menaced as never before
in its history?
Uhuh q per cent.
Who am to argue with the Presi-
dent? 40 per cent.
Too frightened to answer after lis
tening to the last two messages on
the state of the nation 80 per
cent.
Are you willing to make any sac
rifce?
Who? Me? s. II per cent.
Wait till I ask the missus IL
per cent.
Yes, but I want to be sure all you
fellows who are asking me that
question in polls like this are not out
playing golf 60 per cent.
Are you in favor of an about war?
Not too far out Is per cent.
I am for an call out" war if it
doesn't leave us call in" IS
per cent.
What do you think of the situation
in the Near East?
Yes 40 per cent.
No 10 per cent.
Undecided +. 80 per cent.
I tried to find out about it, but the
wire was busy 20 per cent.
Mussolini is so quiet these
days that you can hear a gen.
eral dropped.
Sonia Henie's husband has been
called in the draft, but the soldiers
would much rather see Sonia in
camp.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
FISH STORY

1t may be old, but it's new to this
department. The story of two fish
ermen returning from Florida trip.
Asked if he had had much luck, the
first fisherman told of landing 600
pound sailfsh first time out. "What
did you get?" he asked.
II hooked into something and
when l pulled up I had big brass
lantern from an American ship sunk
back in the War of 1872 and it was
still burning!" he replied.
"Say," said the first fisherman,
"I'm a reasonable fellow. If you'll
blow out that light, I'll take $50
pounds off that fish,"
Yehudi Menuhin, the famous vio-
linist, has been given Class rat
ing in the draft. But lot of us
will wonder why great violinist is
taken when the country is so full
of bum fiddlers who ought to be shot.
Smile by Vincent Lopez: as mod
ern looking as the hat grandma used
to wear.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-07-03
FAIR WARNING!

They say somebody dropped a
bomb over Kilkenny the other day
from 1900 feet and that Kilkenny
man picked it up, threw it back and
destroyed an enemy at 10000 feet
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
Common Sense Report

1T SEEMS never to have occurred to the administration
that one of the most vital forms of DEFENSE is TO
keep the individual citizen SOLVENT.
This can be accomplished by reducing taxes and thus
giving the citizen wider scope in the distribution of his
income and by practcing rigid economy governmental
nondefense expenditures
This latter supreme need has been clearly by the
minority members of the House ways and means COM
mttee in a formal statement supporting the new S5oZ9-
100000 tax bill
"While we must superior the ground of imperative
need-an increase i'm the tax burden, said the report
signed bv all 10 members of the minority group I'VE at
the same time insist there should be coupled with such
increase A MANDATORY REDUCTION IN ENPENDi-
TURE FOR CIVIL PURPOSES"
THIS is patriotic loyalty of democratic opposluoh
| plus COMMON SENSE.
The report says further:
THE President sent special letter to the ways ana
means committee sressing the need Tor addOhai taxes
but he has either neglected purposey avoided sending
letter to the appropriations committee stressng need
for economy in ordinary expenditures His very silence
offers eloquent testimony as to the underlying cause Oh
OUR COUNTRY'S PRESENT FISCAL INSECURITY.
It was our President himself who some months ago
asked for rigid economies nondefense expenditures
But now that slashes could be made in this direction
he remains silent.
The report regrets that the PRESIDENT mas ieluScu ~
assume leadership in this matter
i Aii"'"" "~N'
u wordv promise and concrete performance the part
of Mr. Roosevelt.
1t is an eight year-od habit
This country cannot continue TINS nondeIense
souandering bender without landing in the jug OF the
bankruptcy court. :, A.,
Taxes and wild spending will eventually dry up the
sources of our income.
Figures that show that total national income is
rising are purely specious. ,,,,r,>,,,
The sources Of this rise are the GOVERNMENT
ITSELF.
1t merely records the increased expenditures OF
Washington These billions in alleged increased income
are paid out of the United States treasury TO our
citizens.
II is vicious circle "trck"
Congress should take President Roosevets carrier
recommendations lterally-and cut nondefense appropr-
atoms to the bone.
Let us at least remain HALF SOLVENT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
Entertainment First

A FTER monotonous gloomy and depressing series
"A of propaganda pictures that have made the round
of the nations screens for the past few years, some
definite conclusions have been reached as to their erect
They have all been box office fops.
They are all unconvincing
People resent them and show their resentment by
staying away from them.
Audiences pay for the bread of entertainment and
they are given the stone of special pleading
The Hearst newspapers pointed this out long before
other SURVEYS confirmed the facts.
Now Will Hays forward with a candid II some
what beated decision that films shall first of all be good
entertainment.
Those who demand that the screen subordinate ITS
Wholesome function recreation for cause however
sincere" said the motion picture policy maker ARE sadly
mistaken.
Significance is not achieved at the expense of enter
tainment; il is the result of entertainment
"There are those who would use the films to bemuse
rather than amuse the American public The screen has
no room for such propaganda
AS matter fact such propaganda is an 1die waste
Of money and effort.
1t fails in the first and only task OF propaganda when
is TO convince Add that lamentabe failure the serious
financial burden of producing pictures which consistently
fail 10 make return and have situation that spells
nothing but the consequence of stupid blunder
Let producers directors and writer's retrieve Their
mistake by turning pictures of real dramatic worth Oh
high entertainment value
Let them repudate the shabby trick of Disgusting
specious arguments and gded lies as art OF diversion
and we al-specaly hemseves-wil be gamers thereby
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05

tons Legion and he led it at
the first battle of Bull Run.
Thereafter Hampton served with
the army of northern Virginia in
Jeb Stuart's cavalry corps.
Following Stuart's d e h,
Hampton distinguished himself
in fighting Phil Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley.
He was made a Lieutenant
general and commanded all of
Lees cavalry. He joined with
Joe johnson in the attempt TO
stop Sherman's march through
Georgia.
He was governor OF South
Carolina. United States senator
and United States commissioner
of Pacific railways, and he lived
10 the age of 81 in the town
where he was born, Columbia,
S. c.
CEN. WADE HAM p T O \
VI HAYES. who was born in
Norfolk. Va. is a distinguished
citizen in his own right. A raft
of important business connec-
tons are listed under his name
in Who's Who.
He was Gen. Fitzhugh Lees
chief of couriers in the Spanish
American War, communicative
107th Regiment of the New
York National Guard. which was
in the old 18th, and was the only
national guard officer on Cen
eral Pershing's staff in the first
World War.
The London correspondents
state that the Americans eX-
PLOTS may cause the British
army officers TO review their
airdrome defense for possible
defects, though we like TO think
the capture" was not due 10
the defenders shortcomings but
to the inherent military skill OF
the American commander.
A man named Wade Hampton
would just naturally have 10
have a touch of genius in that
department.
Copyright 1871 King Features synd, In
Distributed by international News serv
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
| EFT ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
DLEASE accept the apprecia-
i ton OF the Dearborn branch
Of the National Association of
Letter Carriers for your views
expressed in the editorial APP
pearing in the July 30 issue OF
The Detroit Times.
In these times of rapid rising
prices, and with a salary scale
that has not been adjusted but
once since 1925. and that down.
ward, the postal employe is in an
unfortunate position.
He is taking it on the chin in
the forTp of an automatic wage
cut; and this in the face of con-
stantly rising SURPRISES shown
by the post office department
for the last four consecutive
years.
Your editorial was especially
timely, as the Flannery longev-
ity bill was passed by the House
of Representatives on July %.
This bill is designed 10 afford
n small measure of relief 10 the
postal employe.
1t Is TO be hoped that Congress
will see the justice Of our re-
quest and pass this much needed
legislation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
Connolly Answers

1-ta Babylon; (b) Florence;
(C) Pisa.
Pa Or close the wall up with
our English dead; tb) At
least wei die with harness
on our back; (c) May live
to fight another day"
3-(a Uncle Toms Cabin"
tb) The Lady or the Tiger
tc) The Monkeys Paw"
4-ta) George Meade; (b)
Nelson: (c) Don John of
Austria.
5-ta) Andromachc. "lliad" tb)
ClytemneStra, gam @ M
non: tc) Katherine The
Tanning Of the Shrew
Sal white; (b) green; &c
red.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
ROBERT LYLE.
1888 Cherrylawn.

TO THE EDITOR:
I BELIEVE drastic action
L should be taken about the rat
situation in Detroit. Almost
every day some one Is bitten.
Would il not be a good idea
for the city TO give a bounty Of.
say, 5 cents, for every rat
killed?
A small investment OF 10 cents
for a rat trap, and the children
could run each other competition
in catching them, and also rid
the city Of them
The city spends thousands Of
dollars on other projects. why
not spend some on this one?
Let's start a campaign to rid
our city of rats
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
British Set Example
For Midd|e-Aged Men
By DAMON RUNYON

WE SEE where Wade Hamp-
w toms legion rides again. ii
only in spirit, and on shanks'
mares.
A bunch of about 20 American
business men in England. all a
little smooth on the tooth, and
some of them pushing cante-
loupes. or paunches, ahead of
them, got themselves a column
from London in the New York
papers the other day by pulling
off a mock capture of an i'm
portant airdrome in the course
of extensive maneuvers by the
British army.
The Americans are members
of the home guard and theirs
was the only unit of the kind
that participated in the maneu-
vers. They "snuck up" on some
500 British troops defending the
airdrome and. took the referees
decisions over them, though
some of the defenders echoed
the late Joe Jacobs historic
Squawk I'VE wuz robbed, y claim
ing the Americans came too
early. But as the Americans
Sagely remarked:
1.-THE Nazis will not wait,
ether
They seized maps, orders and
other army documents at the
airdrofrie but had to give them
all back so the army could con-
tinue its problem, after which
the vigilant home guardsmen re-
tired, probably 10 their respec-
tive dwellings to soak their tired
dogs in hot water and TO apply
linment where it would do the
most good.
A man of middle age gets
weary enough just propelling the
old canteloupe hither and yon,
without adding army maneuvers
10 his routine.
I IN THIS country we have not
L yet called on our middle-aged
men for such strenuous activi-
ties as the exploit recorded about
demands, yet we may come TO il
later on. 1t would not be A bad
idea for the old boys TO be get
ting ready.
There have been a few mus
tiers of oldSterS on their own
initiative IN some parts OF the
country and some desultory hay.
footlng-Straw-footing on the vi.
lage greens. but the home
guards thing has not been de-
veloped here TO anything like
the movement in England.
And ii is doubtful if our army
is as yet prepared to welcome
cooperation of this kind in the
manner of the British.
Perhaps you are wondering
where we get the connection
between Wade Hampton'S legioT
$ and the achievement of III,
American business men in cap
4 turing" the airdrome. so w
: must explain that the leader o
d the Americans was Brigadie
d General Wade Hampton Hayes
y an American banker 60 year
IS old. and named for one of IN,
% greatest citiZen-Soldiers of tn,
:, South, Wade Hampton of Soutl
~ Carolina.
'5 About the time General Hayc
y. was born II was the fashion 4
name boys for Wade Hampton
81 HAMPTON'S father. a quit
H wealthy planter of Sout
De Carolina. was also named Wad,
Sc. son OF still another Wade Hamp
81. ton who was captain IN th
Is American Revolution. In 1866
le young Wade Hampton raised
=. mixed command to fight for IN
ri Confederacy.
~ 1t became known as Hamr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
FRANK ALEXANDER
Secretary.
Dearborn, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR.

TO THE EDITOR:
I JUST want to say a few
L words in reply to Mr.. Car
ver'S letter of July 28. How
does this proposed candidate for
office hope 10 receive any sup
port when his platform consists
chiefly of proposed laws that
the people already have vetoed
or driven out?
II does not sound like a
"social-minded candidate who
has bingo and gambling on his
platform. -----------
| believe that since we are in
The process Of Kidding our city Of
dishonest politicians, we don't
want advocates of pinball ma
chimes and bookies in our City
Council.
As far as the idea Of more
trade instruction in schools. Mr..
Carver must realize that all
students are not training for a
factory career
/ hope that Mr.. Carver will
think better of entering the race
for the Common Council or else
revise his platform considerably.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
Quiz Answers

Twelve. New York'S dele
gates in Congress had not
yet received instructions from
their colony.
2-Twenty-siX.
3-South Africa.
Ali Boy.
5-GIiding is a downward mo-
ton; soaring is upwards
6-San Francisco. 1t has Ass
telephones to each 100 popu-
lation.
7-GettVSburC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
3AERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Staying al BNl
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Wonder if Carl Squres remembers talk we had IN
New Mexico last year this time?
Carl had lust come back from being bombed out of
Holland Belgium France Spain England He told me he
had seen eight barges lined hub TO hub
He said il would be all over in 10 days Yet it was Carts
bombers that destroyed invasion barges and
see he lust sent his thousandth big bomber
This war will be decided by air power and here's one
thing remember you only while your side
is a the bat
know they call me a screwba. but know enough not
70 carry q bundle BY the sting
~ Nevt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-05
JOHN G.. DIETZ.
l1S Davenport avenue,
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

London says reports from
many quarters indicate NaziS
increasing preparations for in
vaSion OF England.
Raj in Cairo reports shooting
down five Italian planes.
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11

vrednost svog rada. Ona priznaje
j zahteva revolucionarnu politicku
partiju, jer je civilizovana. Ona
je civilizovana jer zahteva mirno
probanje snaga da bi Sc tako re-
silo Drustveno Pitanje. Ona je si-
gnrna u .svoju pobedu mad burzo-
azijom jer je ona sama fizicka si-
la - nepobediva sila, koja mole, u
slucaju vrdanja kapitalisticke kla-
Sc, da kapitalizam fizicki razori.
Ona mole biti toliko jaka silna da
ne bi morala nj jedan prst da po-
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11

prolazti kroz isti process, samo obrnutim re-
dom. Obaranje kapitalizma &c doci kao rezul-
tat revolta, koji &c oboriti militarizam.
Industrijalni Junionizam tesko da ie
poznat Evropi. Drzanje Socijaisticke Rad
nicke Partije prema militari8mu jeste: "Or-
ganzujemo radnicku klasu Observation-Disclosures
jalno!" Samo tada &c Sc revolt protiv militia
rizma rezutirati u Waterloo "a klasu spuzve,
mesto pokoj "a klasu rada.
JULIA 81, 1907.
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11
Sve veci profit pljacka.
uSke plut0kratije.
(Nastavak sa l. strane.)

(Nastavak sa /. strane.)
ca gladuju boluju 40 po sto rad
nika i njihovih familija!
Da bi halapljiva plutokratija
sto ve6i "visak vrednosti'' izrabi-
la cd sve vece produktivnije rad
nicke klase, ona Sc trudi da cd rad
nika oduzme pravo ma strajk, da
Sc owl ne bi mogli bar do nekle u.s.
pesno boriti protiv njenog sve ve-
ceg nasrtaja.
Ova je krasna zemlja. Ona je
bogata zemlja. Ina svega svace-
sa. 0 jos kako je covek bi mogao
neograniceno voleti da $ njom ne
vladaju kapitalisti njihovi fe-
keri, prevaranti sve sto NINA
neograniceno voleti da njome ne
sluzi!
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11

digne protiv kukavicke kapitalis-
tickle klase, jer Sc poslednja tada
ne bi igrala sa sudbinom- zavede-
ne radniGke klase kao sto je danas
sluGaj, nego bi ona p o b egl a
cd straha tvrsto organizovanog o.
gromnog americkog, proletarijata.
Takav Socijalisticki Radnicki
Junionizam propagira Socijaiistie-
ka Radnieka Partija. Ona govori
radnicima da mira nece biti dogod
radnicka klasa ne usvoji tn spaso-
nosnu preporuku. Mi smo to rekli
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11
Rodilo Sc "demokratsko" ,,sunce" u Chicago.

&C u N14lCdkOs
onare. U koliko je burzoazija bo-
gatija danas, u toliko je ona re-
akcionarnija, toliko je ona sve
wise "a sto vece zarobljivanje rad.
nicke klase. l nemojte verovati U
burzoaske lazi da Sc ona bori pro-
tiv fasistickog zarobljivanja rad
nicke klase, jer onaj koji ina oci
da vidi, moze jasno videti da il
usiju "demokratske" plutokratije
viri fasizam gotov da postepeno
grabi jedno po jedne mukom ste
ceno pravo do radnicke klase, "a
robljivajuci je tako sve wise wise.
SIoboda napusta svojinu jer ta-
mo Moi nema mesta. Ona Sc mo-
ze naci samo u grudima revoluci-
onarnog proletarijata, koji je jedi
nj u stanju da vodi borbu protiv
najamnog ropstva, kojem je ka-
pitalizam bacio skoro cello stanov-
nistvo owe zemlje. Njegov pro-
gram "a osvajanje, drzanie kre-
tanje svezemaljske proizvodnje
stoprocento je u skladu sa silama
drustvenog progresa Il tome sc i
sastoji velika istorijska misija re-
volucionarne radnicke klase.
Otuda, radnici sc grdno varaiu
kada misle da je njihova duznost
da potpomazu jednu iii drugu stra-
nu izrabljivacke burzoazije. Njiho-
va je duznost ne da pomazu razne
burzoaske novine, nego da svom
svojom silom potpomognu radnicku
stampu literaturu Socijalistieke
Radnicke Partije, koja zaista vodi
pravu borbu protiv ropstva "a o.
slobodjenje celog covecanstva cd
morije klasne vladavine.
Ono "sunce" koje Sc rodilo II
Chicago ma 4. decembra nije nista
drugo doll gusti oblak koji &c po-
moci drugim gustim oblacima da
sto uspesnije pokriju revolucio-
narnu svetlost da je izrabljeni rad
nici ne vide. Tamo drugamo po
swim americkim gradovima osta-
linn mestima, u swim kra jevima
sveta obasjace pravo sunce, rodice
Sc nova sloboda kada radnicka
klasa Amerike zagrli besmrtnu
spanosnu nauku neumrlog Daniela
De Leona - SocijalistiGke Radnic-
ke Partije.
Dole sa burzoaskom stampom!
Da zivi Radnicka stampa!
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-12-11

seduje vellki ducan Chicago, po.
red mnogih drugih manjih, u ko.
jima Sc cd jutra do mraka znoje
radnici radnice pretvarajuci "a
MEGA ukradeni "visak vrednosti''
u novac. On poseduje i tvornice
gde Sc drugi radnici znoje stvara-
juei tai cd njih ukradeni "visak
vrednosti." Drugim recima, cd
hiljada najamnih robova koji rade
"a mizernu najamnicu dolaze Mar
shall Fieldu 3. milioni godisnje.
U vidu ovih cinjenica, kako moze
iko pomisliti da covek, k o j
sedi ma hiljade najamnih robova,
izrabljivaju6i in do kostiju, moze
voditi borbu "a ikakvu slobodu
sto vazi "a plutokrata Zelda to
isto vazi u punoj meri "a pluto
krata McCormicka. Neka sc samo
malo pobune njihovi najamni ro-
bowl: neka traze povisicu najam-
nice neka pokusaju da te gava-
ne ma to prisile sa strajkovanjem,
vi cete videti jednog i drugog
gotovana da &c odobriti bajonete
protiv svojih izrabljenih radnika.
Ova borba izmedju ia diva pluto
krata podseca mas ma borbu izme-
diu "demokratskog' imperijalizma
nacistickog imperijalizma. Ne
maeki su kapitalisti bogati kao
sto su do fla boga bogati "demo-
kratski" plutokrati. Njihova bor-
ba nema nicega zajednickog sa
slobodom. l jedni drugi Sc bore
"a unapredjenje sistema izrablji-
vanja j JOS veceg zarobljivanja
radnicke klase. Oba razbojnicka
tabora izrabljivackog kapitalizma
apsolutno su nesposobni da vode
borbu "a slobodom.
Proslo je doba kada su bogatasi
zaista mogli voditi borbu "a slo-
bodom. Pre- obaranja feudalizma,
u koliko bese rasteea burzoazija
imucnija, toliko ona bese revo-
lucionarnija. | ona tada zaista vo-
djase borbu "a slobodu koja bese
u skladu sa silama druStvenog
progresa. Ali ia su vremena osta-
la "a mama da Sc wise nikada ne
povrate. Sada je burzoazija po-
stala isto tako reakcionarna kon-
trarevolucionarna kao sto bese feu-
dalna klasa oci pada poslednje.
Sada je posedstvo bogatstva po-
stale belega koja oznacuje reakci-