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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12
Help Protect Your CITY

THE Office of Civilian Defense is pursuing campaign
this week to enlist 81 900 volunteers to air
raid wardens.
1t is citywide drive 1t is well organized and has
received great deal of publicity through every possible
medium.
But the response has been Disappointing
With the week more than half over, fewer than
10000 recruits have signed up.
This cannot be due to indifference. People simply
are not Indifferent to the welfare of their homes and
their families and their skins.
1t must be the result rather of inadequate under
standing of how grave the matter Of civilian defense
for Detroit
1t must be lack of realization that Detroit almost
certainly will be bombed by enemy aircraft if any
American city is bombed
DISCUSSING this situation yesterday, Mayor Jeffres
l. said:
THE response to the governments call for assistance
indicates that still too large percentage of pOpula
ton is willing to let the other fellow do it. If this
tnues too long nobody will do it,"
Detroit is important to all of us because we all
live in it.
And Detroit is important to the United Nations and
to democracy
Unless it continues top speed production Of
materials armies cannot conquer the Axis armies.
Detroit must be protected.
1t is up to YOU to help
You will help substantially by enrolling air
raid warden.
If you have reached the age of II and not in
Class la Class AZ in the draft you eligible for
this essential service in civilian defense.
Sign up today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12
ALFRED =. CALI,
800 Penrose avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

~ III mn RI.
A SAMPLE Of our war news:
"A A report OF one plane flying
over California. Then il was two
waves Of planes. The Secretary
Of the Navy Knox saying his in
formation indicated no enemy
planes. and the Secretary of War
StlmSon saying he thought they
were alien commercial planes.
And on top Of that 10 say that
none Of our fighting planes left
the ground 10 intercept them.
And the government is amazed
al the peoples apathy toward the
war.
] don't claim that il is 50 but
7 do maintain they are getting
the people into a dangerous way
Of thinking and sometime when
ii is the real thing. everybody
will be out in the street watch
ing the sky 10 see the fun.
Why can't We have an official
bureau OF information instead Of
all Of this muddle?
HAROLD $. BLAkNEY,
232S5 Chambers.
East Detroit, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12

Rep George Dondcro Of the Seventeenth District OF
gan an important member of the Rivers and Har-
bors Committee of thr House which is now considering
the admins ration bh.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12
| letters TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I WISH TO offer the following
suggestion to conserve the
present tin supplies.
The radio and newspapers are
continually urging the people
TO save the tubes of dental and
shaving cream.
believe the majority OF the
people are more than willing
TO contribute their empty tubes.
but do not want 10 go 10 too
much trouble in doing so. If
they can drop them somewhere
in their daily travelling. | believe
the results would be astonishing.
My idea would be 10 furnish
each bus and each street car
with suitable receptacle TO re-
ceive these empty tubes.
Multiply the above by all the
cities and towns in this land Of
ours, the tonnage in salvage tin
would be an amount sufficient
TO ease the shortage.
ALFRED =. CALI,
Q01 penroSe ayenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Your Hit Parade
BY ARTHUR (BUGS) BAER

BY ARTHUR (BUGS) BAER
my first big flight of planes this week ard u
makes thrill go your neck like window shade :
That psychology of combat is right But 20
the the who scored himself perfect
because every time he pulled the trigger the off,
That's why the hum of motors the melody
when your side is writing the music.
servss
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12
Write to Do dero

Write to Dondero
THE Great Lakes-St Lawrence Seaway is defense
| project Of major merit if there ever was one
President Roosevelt knows il and said so in letter
month ago the chairman of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors The President wrote, in part;
Certain waterway improvements for navigation
and power production are especially desirable Tor the
transportation and production of war materials IL
is extremely important however, that authorizing leg
sati0n be expedited in order that the appropriation
ommiticrs o Congress may prov Idle without delay for
projects urgcnI, needed account of the war emer-
gcncX.'
Eep George ponlcro Of the Seventeenth District Of
Michigan is an important member of the Rivers and Har-
bors Committee thr House which is now considering
the administration blL
Mr. DONpERO formerly was said to be enthusiastic
wi caly IN favor Of the 81. Lawrence bill
Recently ne has cooled He has cooled to the extent
of submitting substitute bill which hasn't chance Of
passing or even getting out of committee.
The administration bill which HAS good chance
Of passing confirms points so basicay sound that they
are beyond homes, objection They include:
Shorace Of electric power for national defense pro-
] auction requires development Immediately OF the
S. Lawrence Scaway. such power cannot be obtained
from steam plants because the two-ocean navy and the
needs of regions without available water power have
created need for steam turbine equipment which exceeds
the capacity of manufacturers.
disappointing facilities in the Great Lakes will be
- utilized to capacity for construction of both mer-
chant and combat ships vital to ultimate security
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT AND THE UNITED
STATES MARITIME COMMISSION STRONGLY URGE
THE PROJECT on THIS GROUND.
SCaW3y VIII relieve congestion in our transpor-
J taton system and provide protected inland route
to of.shorc bases in the North Atlantic.
1.-The project viii develop the most economic power
= generated in the United Statcs-17 mills per kio-
otoI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-12

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
GOOD ADVICE

The Army and Navy Journal re-
ports that Lieut.. Gen. Ben H. Lear
has given the following advice to his
officers on the handling of teen-age
draftees soon to arrive in training
camps:
eve must be careful not to overtax
these young men in their first few
weeks of training. We must build
them up slowly, but surely. They will
be full of pranks and not as serious as
older men in the beginning.
"They will need more fatherly ad-
vice from their sergeants, lieutenants
and captains. And we must overcome
that affection so often experienced by
our young men-homesickness Please
keep these things in mind"
Excellent advice, which it is to be
hoped all officers and non-coms will
take to heart. But why shouldn't it
be extended to the much older men,
particularly that part relating to the
overtaxing of recruits? As matter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

We're not driving through on the
last drive. We have been told that
this is not the beginning of the end,
but that it is the end Of the begin
ming. 1t was Churchill who said it
that way.
So all right. That's how it is. BUT,
it is movement. 1t is drive and ac-
tion and putting everything on the
ball, from factory to firing line.
In what's doing today there's lift
for everyone. We will get set-backs,
some awful maulings, some terribly
disheartening blows; BUT our armies
are out there fighting! The training
days are over. From here on out, you
Axis Apes, you've got fight on your
hands!
praise the Lord and pass the am
munition." Yes, and also, GREASE
THE WHEELS AND MAKE THE
AMMUNITION! Make it fast, pour
it out, let there be avalanches of it,!
Let there be no pause in this great
job of MAKING the ammunition Up
front they're passing it plenty.
Men and women of America, Praise
the Lord and MAKE THE AMMU-
NITIONl-C
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
Union Is Praised For
Record Breaking Job

A dramatic example of how union
workers are smashing records on war
production was brought to light in a
letter of praise received by Local No.
55S of the Electrical Workers at Shelf
field, Ala, from the Reynolds Metals
Company.
Members of the local were assigned
the. job of installing huge transform
ers, rectifiers and other equipment, as
well as 100000 pounds of cable, in
new plants to meet the company's big
program of aluminium production.
The management estimated the in
stallations would take seven and one
half months, but the unionists did the
job in five and one-half. "This extra
two months of aluminium production, )"
the company wrote, ''is equivalent to
direct contribution Of 900 war planes
to the war effort by the electrical
workers of Local No. 558."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

peace, then we shall be given only an
armistice and we shall begin to pre-
pare for third world conflict" the
statement asserted.
Truerer words than these were
never spoken. All history supports
them and warns against a peace of
vengeance. Undoubtedly the Catho-
lie Bishops, in voicing them, had in
mind the advocates of bloody smash
ing of the Axis populations. Already
these howlers for vengeance and blood
are raising their voices in the United
States.
Pledging whole hearted co-opera-
ton with the Government in the
prosecution of the war, the Bishops
expressed grave concern over the en-
ployment of women in industry and
the welfare of the home. every eff
fort must be made" they said, "to
limit, as far as necessity permits, the
employment of mothers in industry,
particularly young mothers"
Where it is necessary to employ
mothers, the statement asks that due
provision be made for the day care of
the children and that a wholesome
moral a m phere be provided
wherever women are employed.
Special safeguards were asked to
shield the youths of 18 years of age
who are going into the armed services
$50 that they may serve their country
without moral blemish."
In this country, the Bishops recon-
mended that colored citizens be given
full measure of economic opportun-
ity. "We fully appreciate their many
native gifts and aptitudes," said the
statement, (which, ennobled and en-
riched by a true Christian life, will
make them a powerful influence in
the establishment of a Christian So
cial order"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
NEARLY 200 LABOR
MEN NOW ON NEW ENG
RATIONING BOARD

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-A to-
tai of 1914 labor men are sitting on To-
cal war price and rationing boards in
New England states, according to a
summary issued by the Office of Price
Administration. These include repre-
sentatives from the AFL, and CIO
and the Railroad Brotherhoods.
Among the outstanding labor men
on local boards are Benjamin J. Dor
sky, president, Maine Federation OF
Labor (AFL); Joseph Salerno, presi-
dent, Massachusetts State Industrial
Union Council (CIO); and Francis
Hackett, secretary, Boston Central
Labor Union (AFL).
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
WHAT NEXT?

Production of an artificial rubber
from wood products, capable of being
vulcanized and suitable for use in
bicycle tires, shoe heels and plastic
products, but not for motor car tires,
was recently announced at Stockholm,
Sweden. The process has been de-
veloped by young Swedish chemist,
and an experimental factory has been
opened at Gislavad by the Swedish
Cooperative Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1912
COOPERATION is WORKING

Union management co operation,
now being given a test on the largest
scale in history, is working, as the
American Federation of Labor always
contended it would. Government re-
ports show the unmistakable success
of such cooperation, with more than
100000 workers aiding in the job of
boosting war production through
more than 1850 Encouragement
committees throughout the nation.
Huge increases in output have been
reported to War Production Drive
Headquarters of the War Production
Board, since the opening of the cam
paign to build union-employer coun-
ellis in every war plant.
In addition, there have been hun
dreds of reports on successful salvage
uIiNeS, Oh tHe eiiiiiiHdtloH u WdSIe,
on the speeding up of operations; on
the substitution of readily available
materials for scarce items; on i'm
provement of production; and on the
reduction of absenteeism
Americas unions have led in calling
for the establishment of active labor
management committees, the War
Production Board says. 1t might we'll
have added the results have fully
justified labor's advocacy of this
means of worker-management CO.
operation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

| CAFEGUARDS around employment
~ of women were urged and an end
to discrimination against the hiring
of Negroes in industry recommended
in Statement on Victory and
Peace" issued recently in the name
of all the Catholic Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States.
The statement, significant in many
ways, warned against peace of ven-
geance, but took a firm stand against
a compromise in the conflict between
totalitarianism and the free nations.
Made at the annual meeting of Catho-
lie Archbishops and Bishops, the
statement called for united action and
sacrifice to achieve "a just and endur-
ing peace through the victory of our
armed forces"
In comprehensive document which
referred to the war as ''the most i'm
portant moral issue of today" the
Catholic Hierarchy condemned those
nations which are waging war to
bring about "slave world" and de-
clared the conflict of principles
makes a compromise impossible"
Gwen while we meet here" the
document stated ''the exigencies of
war have driven our armed forces
into unexpected areas of conflict in
Africa. Our President :. has given
solemn assurance that the United
States has no designs of permanent
conquest or sordid interest. We
Bishops are confident that the pledge
of our Chief Executive, not lightly
made, faithfully mirrors the mind anc
conscience of the American people
Neither secularism nor exploita-
tion nor totalitarianism can write g
"real and lasting peace" the Bishops
said, adding that these peace terms
can be dictated only by the Spirit OF
Christianity"
IF we are not to have Christian
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

The bitter fact is that there is nc
hope of success for these conferences
unless the CIO representatives are
prepared to lay their cards on the
table and agree to an impartial audit
of the paid-up membership of THEN
affiliated unions.
The representatives of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor agreed to dc
this at previous conferences and in
sisted on similar action by the CIC
but it was not Forthcoming. Essen
TALLY, that was the cause of the break
down of the former conferences. The
| CIO representative stalled and
evaded but they would never agree
to showdown.
Common sense indicates that there
can be no merger of rival unions un-
| less full information on membership
and finances is available. Common
sense also dictates that there can be
no unity between the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the CIO unless
there is prior merger of theil
affiliated unions operating in the same
fields and claiming jurisdiction over
the same workers of the same en-
Iployers. Any other course would
mean complete confusion and continu-
Gus civil war within a united labor
movement.
The Time Is Ripe
The obvious conclusion from the
CIO convention is that the right-wine
element in that organization, led by
Sidney Hillman, sincerely desires la
Dor peace and will continue to press
for it. However, the left-wing fac
ton, which is more of political than
labor movement, clearly prefers to
preserve it's own identity rather than
be subordinated in united labor
movement.
CIO President Philip Murray
speech to the convention on labor
unity was a grievous disappointment
Instead of offering aggressive leader
ship for unity, he displayed fear. In
stead of breaking down the obstacles
to peace that do exist, he erected new
and phoney ones. He gave the i'm
preston that he is knuckling down to
the left-wingers in the CIO rather
than divorcing himself from their
obstructionists policies.
It's too bad, because if ever the
time was ripe for labor peace it is
now. If ever the needs of America
and the welfare of American workers
demanded a united labor movement, it
is now.
A number of influential and dis
concerning trade union leaders in the
CIO see eye to eye with the AFL on
the necessity of united action by or
ganized labor to further the war
effort and to protect the interests of
workers in war and peace emergen-
cies. 1t would be indeed unfortunate
if Mr.. Murray rejects their counsel
1t is up to him to decide whether to
exert his leadership for reunited
labor movement or to let the CIO fall
into the disintegrating and destruc-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
Much Scrap Cleaned
By Blue Ball School

Middletown.-Pup and faculty of
Blue Ball Rural School, on Route %,
four miles east Of here, believed their
-the-scrap records is one of
the best in Ohio. The schools so
pupils collected Is tons of scrap metal
and 600 pounds of rubber and copper,
an average of more than $50 pounds
a pupil. Proceeds will be used to buy
playground and other equipment for
the school.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
WISDOM

There can be no real freedom for
the common man without enlightened
social policies. In the last analysis,
they are the stakes for which democ-
racies are today fighting Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with cur Little Hatchst we tell
the truth about many things. sometimes
profoundly. sometimes Hippantly. some
times recklessly.

The military gents and the type
writer strategists" will tell you al
you need to know and lot you don't
need to know, about the military
value of the invasion of Africa, but
there's something equally important
that we all need to know.
1t is the value of that great and
dramatic enterprise right here at
homel
The American people must have
something doing" Do you remem-
Der the apathy that began to grow
and envelop us all during the latter
half of that first year that gave birth
to the name "phony war;?
1t can get to be tough drag pour
ing out production for a war in which
the action doesn't seem to CORE
spond to the effort expended
1t can seem like something that
isn't too important to keep the pro-
duction lines hot when the shooting
doesn't seem to be fast enough to call
for such effect.
But now it's different! The shoot
ing is going plenty. There's action,
motion, great sweeps of blistering
breathless action.
Americans are storming all over
North Africa. And all of those great
machines and that monstrous array of
guns and ammunition are going with
the men who fly and roll and walk
over and on that vast stretch of ter
ritory.
There's reason! And how!
And in the Pacific - and almost
everywhere. Action! Mighty Ameri-
can and Allied armies are on the
move, going FORWARD!
And we know that wherever
Allied armies go FORWARD
they're going TOWARD Berlin
ana IOWARD TOXIC!
Now we see it as good team work
that Stain cried in pain and anger
for US to open second front. The
enemy believed we were NOT doing
it. But, man, howdy! Look at it
now.
And today there's reason, reason
that can be seen and understood by
everyone, for turning out every last
ounce of production. There's reason
for rationing at home
We KNOW where the supplies are
going. We can see pictures of the
tanks and the planes and the landing
barges and the guns and the holy
smoke of battle that calls for supplies
in such prodigious quantities as man
never needed in any other war.
WE KNOW where the beef is going
and where all the other foods are
going. We can SEE why we at home
must cut down, must be rationed with
enough for all but none to waste.
We KNOW that today's soldier eats
as much for breakfast as many civil
ians need for whole day.
And HE shall have it, in abundance
and good luck to him
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
STORES TO OPEN LATER

Effective Tuesday, retail stores in
downtown Hamilton will be open from
$50 o'clock to 6 except on Monday
when stores will open at IL noon and
close at $50. The present hours, ex-
cept Monday, are 8 o'clock to $50.
The new schedule, announced by M.
E. Kellogg, President of the Hamil-
ton Merchants Association, is de-
signed to stagger bus transportation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
GASOLINE RATIONINC

Oxford, Ohio. - Oxford Township
and Village motorists who failed to
obtain "A" gasoline books last week
may apply for them this week, Rich
ard Serviss, Chairman of the Ration
ing Board, announced. During sup
Elemental rationing this week table
will be set aside for belated "a" regis
tration
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

of fact, it would probably be more ap-
plicable to the men of 40 and older
than to the young ones.
Many of the men of 40 and over
have been forced to try to keep up
with the men in their 20's and 30's in
the early training. This has been too
much for many and has contributed
to putting them in the hospitals,
which has surely not been good for
them, the Army or the nation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

Free organizations of workers and
employers have become now an
integral part of the machinery of
democratic government. And it sure
ly follows that we should build more
surely, more effectively and more
solidly if they are associated with
all the international decisions regard
ing the future peace and the economic
well being of the world.-Edward j.
Phelan, Acting Director, international
Labor Office.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
WREATHS, BUT NO LIGHTS

Christmas wreaths were placed on
poles in the downtown section in
preparation for the holiday season. In
accordance with government requests,
the usual outside electric trimmings
will be omitted.