The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-09-24
Straight From
Washington
BY STEPHEN NJ. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

Washington. = Brave Chinese work
ers have for months been sabotaging
Jap efforts to use the shipyards and
dock facilities of Hongkong, left intact
by the British when they surrendered
last December. 1t is unbelievable, but
true. that the British surrendered two
naval and seven commercial shipyards
and ten dry docks, representing the
greatest single concentration of marine
construction plants in the British En-
pire, without doing any damage what
soever to this property. English owners
of the shipyards eNerted every effort
to prevent British naval officers from
destroying their property. They argued
that destruction was wantOn waste of
property which would sometime be re-
taken by the United Nations AS a re-
| suit, no attempt was made to put the
vital pump rooms without which dry
docks cannot operate, out of commits
sion Secret plans of some British ships
were left on the premises of one plant.
Japs Immediately took over the nine
shipyards, ten dry docks, and have
| since been busy on the construction and
repair of warshipS, pressing into serv
| ice, Chinese workers at Il miserable
rate of pay. Some highly skilled
| Chinese have accepted jobs, concealng
their qualifications, and then on their
own have damaged Jap warships be-
ing repaired. The Chinese are doing
on small scale what the British com
mander would have done had the
owners not interfered.
Guns or Books
National Selective Service officials
directed that cripples be inducted into
the army for limited military service
| Now these same officials are giving
thought to the idea of permitting men
who do not have the equivalent of a
| fourth grade education to be inducted.
Sounds silly, doesn't it? Our Independ-
ence was won by patriots, many of
whom did not have the equivalent of
Il second grade education.
Brazil
| Look for concentration of Ameri-
cans in Brazil. The northern bulge of
Brazil is only 1900 miles from Dakar,
Africa. This bulge can he used as Il
hopping off place for Allied operations
against Axis powers. BY the same
token, it is the shortest route for Axis
invasion of the Western Hemisphere.
TechnicanS of our armOured and air
forces are already in Brazil. Brazil, Il
proud nation of 45 million people, is
an important ally against dictatorship
aggression.
Hotels
Uncle Sam is now the largest hotel
operator in the world. More than two
hundred hotels have been taken over
by our government. Thousands of
young Americans are now housed in
the finest hotels in Miami and Atlantic
| City while undergoing training.
America Firster
| EX-DemocratiC. Congressman Samuel
Pettingill of Indiana was recently ap-
pointed Chairman of the Republican
Finance Committee. He will help raise
money for Republican Congressional
candidates in ohio and elsewhere He
was formerly very active i'm the Amer
ica First Committee. Clarence B. Kel-
land, another America Firster is pub
| licity director of the Republican Ma
tiOnal Committee.
Nazi Spies
Most Americans feel that Nazi spies
in this country when caught should be
dealt with Summarily instead of fol-
lowing draWn-out trials. They want the
same thing to happen that happened
10 Bill.
| English Burglar: "How did Bill
die?"
His Friend: "'E fell through some
scalfolding."
English Burglar: "Whatever was he
doing up there
His Friend; Being 'anged."