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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

TTNVERIFIED tales of some
u waste. ineniciency and even
one or two broader suggestions
of personal deficiencies in the
defense program. are. being told
among congressman.
So far these seem TO be only
the usual minor offShootS of a
vast hurried drive for defense.
They are likely TO be cleared up
IN the executive meetings Of the
House appropriations committee,
now under way. 4 separate CON
CreSSional investigation by a
special committee is unlikely.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

az THE whole list of questions
" in this category. the message
is resoundingiy silent. Are we
to repeal the johnson Act for
bidding loans OF money to
defaliiting nations. or The Neu-
trality Act which keeps our
shipping and our people out OF
danger zones?
Are we 10 permit shipments
of contraband of war in Ameri-
can vessels or convoy shipments
10 belligerents with the implied
threat of naval action against
any belligerent blockade OF
them? On these vital questions
the message is silent.
As 10 the johnson Act, there
is an indication that we are go
ing to evade but not repeal il.
We are 10 be asked not 10 lend
billions of dollars in cash but
billions of dollars in equipment
for which we must spend, or
have spent, billions.
For this. IT is said. we shall
be repaid either by the return OF
that equipment or its equivalent.
or by shipments of goods and
commodities, rubber and tin for
example The absurdity of this
as 10 the equipment was dis
c,gsed here yesterday. AS to the
commodities. what is proposed
is a barter and to what end?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

ONE of the most debated ques-
" tons in the public's mind.
the Presidents speech on the
state of the Union, didn't say
much that he has not said be-
fore. 1t is far more significant
in what it did not say.
One thing it did not say were
the words short of war; in
promising aid. Many of our most
belligerent unofficial armchair
strategists who also began ad-
vocating aid but stressing short
of war" have now also dropped
that qualification, and some
want war right now.
The President followed these
only in dropping the words
short of war" which he was so
careful to include in his cam
palgn speeches. Nevertheless, he
did indicate that definitions OF
"acts of war" in international
law are "out" SO far as he Is
concerned, since the Axis powers
have disregarded these laws.
In this he is probably right.
hut most -ef-tffe- opposition to
his proposals has not rested on
purely technical acts of war.
which are not physically acts OF
warlike aggression-like trading
the destroyerS.
They have questioned our
taking physically offensive ac-
ton in foreign waters that would
automatically engage us in war
like crashing a blockade with
a naval convoy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

In Britain. the political truce
was threatened by the ousting
OF War Secretary Hore-Belishs
from the cabinet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

OUT ii sounded a new note In
- the nature of Woodrow Will
sons high emprise. but over
topped it by far, We are going
out this time not merely TO
make the world safe for democ-
racy but to do much more, TO
procure. everywhere in the
world four "freedoms"-of
speech. or of worship, from want
and from fear-to all people
whether they want them or not -
It's a lot of territory and
some job - Uncle Sam. old
Dutch cleanser For the whole.
grimy. cockeyed world. We tried
that once on a much smaller
scale. Can't we learn?
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

Friendship is Love without his
WingS,-Byron.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

THE British overnmen
L doesn't own the rubber and
tin. Its subjects in Asia and
Malaysia own them. Britain
will have to buy and pay cash
for them. If she can do so when
the time comes. why couldn't
she Just as we'll engage 10 pay
the same cash 10 us? We might
not then want a couple of bill
lions of dollars worth of rubber
and tin.
All that part of the message.
its silenceS as we'll as these
bizarre suggestions. remain to be
cleared up. With its main part.
about and greatly speeded arms
production and defense, the
whole country will follow him.
Some of it has been ahead OF
him for years. 1t is Just pos
sible that the unexpected OBJ
security of the other part is a
matter of necessary or prudent
timing controlled by something
that is happening or intended
abroad. and which Harry Hop
kins is going over to explore.
On the main questions of i'm
mediate policy we must Wait and
see. The message is not reveal
ing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-07

Grief knits two hearts in
closer bonds than happiness ever
can; and common suiferings are
far stronger links than common
joys --Lamartine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
Teachers Federation
Bans Totulituriuns

Detroit, Mich.-The administration
program Of the American Federation
Of teachers, AFL affiliate, was en-
dorsed by the 25th convention here
both as to policy and leadership per-
Sonnel, which was a clear cut victory
for the forces led by President George
S. Counts, who was reelected by 524
votes to blanks. The convention re-
affirmed the devotion of teachers to
academic freedom, demanded protec-
ton Of teachers living standards
through tax program that will
guard education budgets, and con-
demned totalitarian doctrines.
The prescription of totalitarianism
was included in the modified form of
the membership eligibility clause,
which now reads:
"No discrimination shall ever be
shown toward individual members be-
cause of race, religious faith or po-
litical activities or belief, except that
no applicant whose political actions
are subject to totalitarian control,
such as communist, nazi or fascist,
sail be admitted to membership"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
JOB DISCRIMINATION FOUGHT

MORE THAN 60 prominent union leaders and
NA labor editors in New York have given their un-
qualified endorsement to the objectiveS of Cover
nor I.ehmans Committee on Discrimination in
Employment, says an announcement by Industrial
Commissioner Frieda S. Miller, chairman of the
committee.
Replying to a letter sent them by Commits
sioner Miller these leaders, representing virtually
all branches of organized labor in the state, de-
clared they would be happy to do everything pos
sible to cooperate in the committees campaign
against undcmocratc employment practices,
which has as its objective equal opportunity for
all regardless of race, color, creed or national eX-
traction.
A few months ago Governor Lehman appoint
cd the committee, under the State Council on Ma
tiona Defense, to deal with the problem, pointing
out that discriminatory hiring practices deprive
our defense effort Of needed workers, in addition
to contradicting democratic way of life.
Commissioner NIiIler's announcement is good
news The discrimination the labor representa-
tives oppose must 90, if America is to remain true
to its ideals AS Jacob Rosenberg, president OF
Local S02, American Federation of Musicians
said
1--WE do not inquire into race, creed or color
when we call upon Americans to make sacrifices
for the maintenance defense of the democratic
principles which underlie our form of government
what his antecCdcntS were 4 prerequisite for
the purchase Of defense bonds Then why ask
him these things when he seeks employment?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
TEACHERS WARNED NOT TO STRAY

t,XCHANGE OF secondary school teachers be-
- tween the United States and the other Amer
lean Republics is limited at the present time John
W. Studebaker u. S. Commissioner Of Education,
announced recently: He puts crmp in this idea
of exchanging teachers "At the present time no
general interchange of secondary school teachers
between the United States and the other Amer
ican Republics appears to be feasible he says.
and cautions that a program of exchanges "should
and will take place in the future but these ex-
changes will need to be worked out carefully be-
forehand by the proper authorities in the United
States and in the other Republics" He adds:
Until such time as a plan can be worked out and
announced, teachers both in the United States
and in the other Republics should know that such
opportunities are quite limited"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
FROZEN FUNDS

IN APRIL LAST YEAR the United States Gov
ernment froze 267 million dollars of funds il
the United States that belonged to Norway ane
Denmark. That was the beginning of freezing
vaded countries from being used by Germany anc
others.
Today these foreign funds amount to more
than 714 billion dollars. Perhaps you may have
forgotten some of those nations that were
stormed and crushed by Hitler Those unfortu.
nate nations that are being defended by the
United States are Denmark Luxembourg, Hol
land, Belgium France, Germany, Japan, Italy
Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, Austria
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Portugal, China
Switzerland, Sweden, Spain Estonia, Latvia
Lithuania.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
GROWING TOUGH

IF THERE is one thing the American mind has
a tough time grasping, it probably is the diplo-
matte train of thought in foreign relations This
is probably most true of Japan The Oriental
seems to us to think backwards half of the time.
This country has never attempted to train
statesmen as have the older nations which TACT
has made our representatives clay in the hands
of the skilled men of public affairs with whom
they must deal. We invariably appear to come
home from across the Atlantic with the empty
poke
Probably our biggest fault is failing to be-
come hard-boled enough. We never seem to stick
to our convictions under the stress of the hOneyed
hammering from the opposition. But at present,
with Japan at least, we have grown very tough
indeed Perhaps we are growing up and learning
fast
In spite of the fact that if we intend to aid
Britain in the Atlantic, cannot afford war
with Japan in the Pacific which would be playing
into Hitler's hands, have taken the mailed fist
attitude with Toxic and it is working splendidly.
1t is hard to foresee the final outcome, how
ever With the tide Of the struggle in China slow
ly turning against rather than for them, you
would expect the Japanese to steer clear OF any
brush with powerful United States, but to save
face the militarss who lead the little yellow race
may decide they would rather be defeated while
fighting great odds and further provoke this
country.
OF course, much depends upon Germany's war
in Russia If Stain holds out over the winter,
sapping the strength of the NaZ Hitler will be
doomed and Japan will not care to stay tied to a
loser.
In any case, new attitude appears to be
the best solution for keeping out of a shooting
war in the Pacific and holding down the I'M
perialistc advances of Japan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
AFTER-WAR PERIL EMPHASIZED

DANGER OF AN economic collapse after the
~ war and the urgent necessity of planning now
to avert the danger were emphasized by William
Green, George Meany and other Labor Day
speakers.
Green demanded the immediate start of plan
ming to cope with unemployment at the end OF
the defense program. He warned that the mo-
ment defense production stops, millions of work
ers will inevitably lose their jobs and the worst
depression this nation has ever seen may ensue
The American Federation of Labor Green
said, had called on President Roosevelt for the
start of planning now "for expanded peacetime
production which will take up the slack of wal
production when the time comes.''
1--WE have asked the President" he added, "tc
invite representatives of business, finance, labor
and agriculture to sit down with government rep
resentatives and draw up long-range program
This is only common-sense insurance against eco
nomic collapse
Nothing except the problem of winning the
war can be more important than the planning
action asked by President Green. 1t should begr
at once, be pushed with all possible speed and the
nation should be kept fully informed of it's prog
ress and of the necessity for action.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
TAXING THE POOR

For several reasons The New
Leader favors paying the largest pos
sible fraction of our defense bill out
of taxation. 1t makes US war-con-
scious. 1t is one of the bars against
imitation. In times like these it would
be a curmudgeonly citizen who would
groWl about payments which go for
our mutual protection.
But taxing a man who makes SIS
week-even if the man is proud to
make his contributions pulling
whole timbers out Of the social struc-
ture which we have been building
during the past generation. The Sen
ate Finance Committees proposal to
that effect is a good example of not
letting the right hand know what the
left one is up to. During the entire
New Deal period we have been pass
ing laws to protect the workers
standard of living. The Finance Com
mittee's proposal to lower the income
tax exemption for single persons to
$4,000 is a direct jab at living stand
ards and health.
1t is generally agreed that the
average family cannot live in the
American way on less than $4,000
per year. On this basis $3.50 would
surely be too little for a single man
or woman. 1t is just about what is
provided by the minimum standards
written into the wages and hours law.
By one piece of legislation we push
a mans earnings up to this figure,
acknowledged as a minimum, and by
another the Senate Committee pro-
poses to push them down.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
SHY LOWELL MELLETT

THERE is AN old story in Washington about
Lowell Mellett being told to answer the tele-
phone-"the White House wants you right away
Mellett refused to go to the phone and said: Tell
the boys to go back to their drinking and stop
playing jokes But, President Franklin ID. Roose-
welt wanted to ask Mellett to oversee all Govern
mcnt publicity Mr.. Mellett holds the office Of Di-
rector of the Office of Government Reports, and
while he remains at that post there will be no CEN
sorship of the press in the United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
DEFENSE AIDS GOOD HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT OF defense homes is

DEVELOPMENT OF defense homes is paving
- the way for future sum-clearance and low
trent housing in cities which have never before had
public housing, it is reported. This is good
Nathan Straus, administrator of the United
States Housing Authority points to East Hart
ford Connecticut, as an example of a city which
has learned about housing due to the defense
emergency.
There was no official housing agency, Mr..
|Straus said, when the Federal government came
into East Hartford to build 500 homes for defense
workers. Local people, anxious to participate in
this undertaking which affected their civic life so
greatly, formed an unofficial advisory committee.
BY discussion and negotiation, this committee, al
Though it had no power was able to effect certain
|changes in the houses which made them more
compatible with the special customs and needs of
East Hartford
Recently, Mr.. Straus reported, the town coun-
|cil established an official housing authority for
the city. Appointed as chairman member
of the unofficial advisory committee. Other mem
bers would likewise have found place on the au-
thority had not state law prevented the appoint
ment Of elective appontive town officeholders
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
TO SAVE SMALL BUSINESS

EDTIUK JUSTPH MAKIIN OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
- Chairman of the Republican National Com
mttee and Congressman from his State, says
that small businesses comprise SO per cent of all
business and handle 65 per cent of the nations
commerce. He thinks the small fellows are get
ting the worst of it, in the awards of defense
contracts, and he has declared campaign to force
the Government to adopt measures to save small
business men from being plowed under.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
w H A T NE T?
.:********:-:**:*:.:.:*....:

An experimental Ford sedan
with new plastic body was re-
Gently shown i'm Detroit. The only
steel in the whole super r-structure
is a welded tubular frame, carry
ing II nodded plastic body panels
with an impact strength declared
''ten times greater than steel"
The farm contributed many of the
new materials for the plastic-one
formula being wheat, flax, hemp,
ramie and spruce pulp plus syn
thetic resin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
"SllRTEREUGE'

A LOT OF LEGISLATION before Congress is
"A being promoted by a subterfuge under claims
for national defense. These issues include the st
Lawrence seaway, the Florida ship canal eXces-
sive highway appropriations, and other question
able undertakings ueStionable because they are
straight-out proposals that have nothing to dc
with national defense.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
THE PRESIDENTS MYSTERY MAN

HARRY HOPKINS is confidential and personal
representative of President Roosevelt. He was
the man who fixed up arrangements for the
Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at sea. So far he
hasn't made a slip, and he may do a great deal
better than Colonel House who lost favor with
President Wilson before the latter finished his
term of office. When Hopkins returned to Wash
ington few days ago he was wearing Winston S.
ChurchillS hat.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. MODERN WAR RATIO
. is 30 TO ONE
. ONE ON FIRING LINE
. 80 ON SUPPLY LINE


. ONE ON FIRING LINE
80 ON SUPPLY LINE
Thirty to one
One man on the fighting line
Thirty others to keep him equipped
and supplied
That is the modern war ratio of
production to distribution
That is what "total war" means,
when everybody has to get into it
Crossroads garages won't keep the
caissons rolling
When tank divisions start across
enemy country
Put wings on tanks
Then you add another factor to
production lines
Feed ammunition through anti-air-
craft guns to stop bomb raids
Then you must call girls and women
to assemble and load shells
Send cargo vessels through SUBJ
marine zones
Then shipyard shifts must climb
to "a hours a day
To keep that bridge of boats un-
broken across the seas
All Of which is just a part of total
X X X
Sixty per cent
Of Germany's production process
es-
Is given to furnishing war machines
with essentials
Same is true in England in days of
stress and fear
Leaving forty per cent to carry on
absolute essentials of living
Americas depression released 80
per cent of its workers.
Now we are turning that large
fraction of the production army
To the job of producing for de-
X X X
When France fell
America almost woke up
To realize the threat of the Nazi
drive on civilization
Should Russian fanaticism and me-
chanical military equipment
Fail to stop Hitler's gangs this
side Of the Ural mountains
Before snow flies, and winter bogs
down the panzers--
Another year will see Nazi rage
poured out toward America
Nazified French fleet will change
the Battle of the Atlantic
Into something more personal, even
to midwest isalationists-
Dakar, from being a point of irony
for scoffers-
Will become a taking-off point for
Nazi expeditions
Unless South America is integrated
better than it has been.
X X X
TO smash the Nazi thrust
Before it reaches American shores
Must be American military policy
End the Nazi menace, dig it's grave
in Europe
Rather than in free soils of our
Western World
Use policy of prevention, before the
fact
Rather than desperate battle for
survival
Against worlds resources, har-
messed to Hitler's hate
X x
England was slow to awake
She is now paying a price for that
sleep
America has not England's excuse
for incredulous astonishment--
Nazi ruthlesness, brutality, consci.
enceless rape of a continent
Shove object lessons under our eyes
in convincing frankness-
We lack only the damning proof
in blood to Britons-
We have not yet had bombs in oul
nights
AT worst, we have spies, and some
sabotage
Slippery Quislings, doublc-tongued-
We don't believe it yet, that wal
is coming to us
That the ratio of total war is
THIRTY TO ONE!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
Smith Ends 6-Yedr Term
As Labor Bourd Member

Washington, d. c. - The six-year
term of Edwin S. Smith as a member
of the National Labor Relations Board
ended Aug. 26
Washington observers generally as
sumed that he would not be reap
pointed. President Roosevelt said at
his press conference that no decision
had been reached.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
SOLDIERS HELP HARVEST FRUIT

Fort Niagara, n. Y.-Two hundred
soldiers at Fort Niagara were re-
leased to help farmers with the fruit
harvest in Niagara County. The SOL
diers received the regular wages for
pickers and packers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11

Every mechanical device that goes
into the kitchen seems to take some
thing away from the quality Of
what's cooked there.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
JOBS PLENTIFUL,

ACCORDING TO THE Works Progress Admin
"A istration four million new jobs were created
during the past year. Employment is almost
normal throughout the country.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11
w I S D o M

A good example is the best
sermon.--Benjamin Franklin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMM!IIEE -
ManufactuerA. G. DALE, FRED SUTTERLIN JAMES TURNEN
Operatives, L. WHEATLEY VIM YOUNG EDWARD SEYFIER1
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11

EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE >,
ID. HARDESTY E. CHAS GOODWIN
Operatives. L. MHEATLEY JOHN BALDAUF Jr. VIM OWEN
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-11

WESTERN GENERAL WARE STAMPING COMMITTEE % 81
CHAS GOODWIN, ARTHUR WELlASl
Operatives JOHN MGILLVRAY LOUIS PIESOCK. F. HAYNES
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-11-14
Quaint Chapel
Near Here Is
Visited Sunday

Saint Frances Mission on the
ella River reservation. little
known spot OF unusual interest
about SO miles southwest of here,
was visited Sunday by Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt ~ Dodge and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. Clark j. Wells.
who had been planning the trip
for some time.
Father Akchin and Father Ma
thlas Franciscans. are raising
chucker partridges at St. Francis
Mission from a few pairs import
ed three years ago as an expert
ment. from India Today there
are over 1000 birds TO be releasI
ed on the desert in the near fu-
ture for game The chuckers
weigh about three times as much
as quail and the novel experiment
was started at St Francis Mission
through the cooperation and in
terest OF a Phoenix man.
John Stevens. an Indian without
formal art instruction. has painted
murals OF holy subjects against a
desert background. that are out.
standing for their unique concep-
ton and faithful adherence to To-
cal background.