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apartment houses. In the other
the Hungarian Defense Minister
appealed to Hungarian peasants
to organize watches to save the
crops which were being set afire
by "incendiary balloons"
From two sources therefore,
and within a few days of each
other, we hear Of outbreaks of
incendiarism in the Axis coun-
tries Of Central Europe.
The Hungarian incendiarism-
scorched earth policy makes
military sense, for Hungary is
the chief granary Of Germany.
But it Is also a country of deeply
oppressed and embittered peas
ants, and any revolt in Hungary
will come from them.
At Source Of Rebellion.
The burning OF Berlin apart
ments, on the other hand, Is
senseless in any direct military
sense. But it occurs In the
greatest city in an urban country.
German rebellion will originate
in the cities.
Let us ask ourselves therefore
what this can mean. Who can
be doing it?
The Berlin award issues from
the Gestapo; Herewith, the au-
thorities indicate that the fires
have political motives.
1t Is hard to believe they are
the work Of foreign agents or
trained saboteurs. They would
60 after military objectives. Their
activities would be concentrated
on railroad communications, in
dustriA plants, storage ware
houses and bridges.
Spiritual Explosion.
The incendiarists are not i'm
portant as individuals. They are
people in whom a spirit is ex-
ploding, that under all the op-
preston and terror surrounding
them can find no effective outlet.
1t is the spirit that cries: 1t can't
90 on like this; something must
happen; I am fed up to the eyes;
I must be something-anything
t-snd I can't wait for some one
b organize 1t.
In other words. these are acts
Rising out of Illustration and
despair. nihilistic in their i'm
pulse, and anarchic.
A spirit is sweeping Europe, and
nothing is more contagious than
a revolutionary spirit. 1t knows
nothing about frontiers and Moth
ing about nationalities, nor of
con9ueror or conquered.
Hitler understands the con-
tagion Of revolution. He intend
ed to canalize it and use it. But
this has been his most prodigious
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be plain speaking about this. The
trouble is not with the people. They
are neither complacent nor apa-
thetic. The trouble is with the war
management. which is neither
competent, intelligent nor single
hearted.
That is the simple truth, and Mr..
Roosevelt would serve the Nation
better If, instead of assuming that
the public needs to be stirred out Of
it's lethargy. he would weed out the
incompetents whom he has placed
in the highest posts and give the
country the sort of leadership it
ought to have.
1t has not had that kind of lead
ership and it has not got it now.
The clearest and most convincing
evidence of this is the almost incred-
ible mess in which the war manage
ment is steeped-a mess which, too
obvious to be denied, is gradually
being sensed by the people.
They are not complacent, but they
are concerned, and they are getting
more so. Men who recently have
been through the States report a
growing conviction about admins
tration incompetency and general
feeling that our best brains are not
being utilized in this crisis.
This feeling is we'll founded. 1t
is fact that the real ability and
experience available in America have
been either by-passed or barred by
the administration. The first-grade
men are outside, not inside.
This is attested by any analysis OF
| personnel. Those in the highest
posts are definitely not topnotchers
Either unwilling or unable, the Pres
ident has failed to bring the best
equipped and available citizens here
and clothe them with power.
That would have involved putting
aside his personal prejudices anc
asking help of men who have effec-
lively opposed him politically and
whom he does not like personally
Instead, he has largely manned his
organization with personal and polit.
ical friends.
There are plenty of good men here
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peace without victory. But the
Nazis rely on the intensity of
their propaganda and on their
sympathizers In the United States
and Britain to convince the
people that even II Germany
were defeated after a long war
there would be no gain for any
one, and that 1t would be wiser
to stop the whole thing right
now, when America and Britain
are not yet completely ruined by
astronomical war expenditure.
This type of propaganda has
not yet come into the open. 1t is
being used in many important
centers In the United States and
Britain As a primer" but 1t will
certainly come to the surface the
day Hitler decides to make the
last call for a negotiated peace.
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The Great Game of Politics
Roosevelt Urged to Weed OUT Incompetent;
People Reported Sensing Bod Situation

but they are not the key men with
the real power. It is not necessary
to call the roll to prove this. All one
need do is point out that the two
most important figures in the picture
are those OF Harry Hopkins, who has
been directing the gigantic lease
lend operations, at the same time
acting in various other capacities;
and Leon Henderson, who as price
administrator, has almost life and
death power over our economic
system.
To contend that these two men
are the best in the country for their
jobs is to be absurd. And so far as
Mr.. Nelson is concerned, while he is
honest. earnest and hard working.
he got his job primarily because he
had become the favorite business
man of the little New Deal group
about the President. When you say
that Mr.. Nelson is pretty good" you
have just about gone the limit.
The fact is that the job is much
too big for the type of men trying
to do it. This is unhappily demon
strated by the situation in which
after nearly two years we now find
ourselves. We find, for example,
that through mismanagement and
lack of foresight many factories
with war contracts are now threat
ened with stoppages by the shortage
Of basic materials, chiefly steel, cop
per and rubber.
We find, too, that no one here
knows the facts about these short
ages or what to do about them. We
find, further, that without a firm
labor policy the effort to keep down
prices has been futile and that de-
spite the vast amounts expended to
prevent imitation, imitation steadily
becomes more of a reality.
We find that the tax problem has
been botched and that the pending
bill falls farther short Of it's avowed
purposes than any other tax bill in
history. In the vital business of
military strategy, the President has
increased confusion by appointing a
personal chief of staff without max
ing it clear whether he Is to be SUI
perior to the existing chiefs of staff
or is to supplement them or CO.
operate with them.
Further, we find that the sub
marine attacks upon our shipping,
which we were told months ago
would be stopped, are becoming
more devastating all the time. And
finally. we find the President and
his aides wasting time and energy
OF incalculable value upon political
activities, which force the conclu-
sion that their thoughts are on the
nominee of the next Democratic
National Convention.
Few men can consider these facts
and they are without being
disturbed. 1t is unthinkable to ac-
quiesce in them and 1t is not in the
national interests to ignore them
Rejecting upon them, 1t is rather
sickening to be told that the people
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RebelIious Spirit in Europe Needs Hornessing
For Proper Direction and Goal

failure, and in the end will prove
to be determining factor in the
outcome Of the war. For the
Nazi revolution is a flop. No
where in Europe have the masses
arisen to its banner. On the
contrary, his troops have re-
leased another revolution-the
inarticulate revolution against
slavery and senselessness, and
against sapheads tricked out In
an arrogant authority that has
no inner basis. Its origins are
in spiritual revulsion.
Fire Fighting Fire.
The places where it rises do
not matter. If it arises in the
occupied countl 'es, 1t spreads to
the occupiers. t swamps the
whole question of who is win
ming here or there, and cries out
against the war itself, and the
incendiarists OF that war-the
Nazis 1t is fire fighting fire.
Now this seems to me very
important. Such a chaotic re-
vulsion of despair and disintegra-
ton plays in the long run against
our enemies, but in the short run
not necessarily so. 1t is a blind
spirit that can be exploited either
way. And in the long run, unless
canalized, it will rise against
civilization itself as a volcanic
and untamable force.
There is an enormous oppor-
tunity in it, for the breaking up
of conventional ties provides the
chance Immediately to reform.
Out of chaos comes creation.
But, on the other hand, it merely
offers an opportunity to be seized.
A rebeliious situation such as this
one cannot be left to develop by
itself; If 1t is, it will not develop
into any kind of order, but into
anarchy.
Lacks Rational Aim.
am compelled to believe that
the picture which the Allied
authorities-our state depart
ments, foreign Offices and propa-
ganda bureaus, for instance
have Of Europe is distorted in two
ways. The progress of disinte-
grafton is farther advanced than
they think, but without nearly as
rational an aim as they think.
All the free movements in exile
speaking for Europe are pro-
grammatic and rational. But
Europe, on the contrary, is sick.
Rebellion is not of itself revolu-
ton. Rebellion is revulsion-the
nay spirit. Revolution must
create. 1t must say yes to some
thing.
Now, it is our business to give
an aim to the rebellion-and We
are not doing so. To do so re-
quires much more courageous
thinking than is being done in
any official quarters, either here
or in Britain. There is more at
stake than the military consider
alton of using this spirit as an
aid to q second front. We risk
losing all our influence over the
mind of Europe. 1t is urgently
necessary to analyze the ingredi-
ents Of this rebellious spirit and
out of them to form an organized
democratic revolution Of our own.
And this is the function Of
the clearest-eyed thinkers OF our
world. It will never be done
by foreign ofiices or state
departments.
- -.
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BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Nazi drive into the heart
Of Russia is considered by many
high officials in Washington as
more serious for its political i'm
plications than for its military
consequences.
In the opinion OF our high
ranking officers the Germans
would not defeat Russia even II
they capture Stalingrad, Moscow
and Leningrad and push the Red
armies behind the Volga into the
Ural Mountains. Such setbacks
for the Soviet would lengthen
the struggle immeasurably. but
50 long as the Russians keep their
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Nozi Armament Chief
lnspects Western Forts
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts. Aug. 5.-Albert Speer. Min.
lister for Armament and Munitions,
has completed an inspection OF
German fortitlcations along ths
western coast Of Europe, it was
announced yesterday.
Particular attention was given to
skillfully camouf1Aged long g-range
cannon guarding the coast.
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ptuuyu I n e
way 1t as been
handled.
Japan Is only
about 100000
tons and Hitler
has only 4O0o,-
900 tons ofteel-
making calcity
to draw ON,
whereas Anri-
ca alone IA S
close to 90.N.-
900 tons and >
fore the end VI
1912 this WI
hoyyA Nna,. ~
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hints In wash
ington that 1t
was only a mat
ter Of time until
meats. d a r Y
products a n d
other foo d 5
would Join sugar
In the stamp
collection and
be parceled out
on al ern a I q
ues ays OF
each month.
When tha 3
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This Changing World
Hitler Expected to Offer Honorable Peace
ToU. S. and Britain Before End Of Summer

II We are to believe reports
from the few remaining neutral
countries where Nazi agents rub
elbows with those of the United
Nations, the Nazis intend to con-
centrate their peace effort on
Britain with promises Of respect
for the remaining portions Of the
empire and with threats of in
vasion If these promises are not
accepted.
So long as Winston Churchill
remains British Prime Minister
the Nazis have no more chance Of
obtaining a negotiated peace than
they have OF hoisting their flag
over the White House next
month. But Mr.. Churchill's po-
sition is not particularly Arm
right now.
Rely on Propaganda.
There has been tremendous
movement among the masses in
England the last Ave or six weeks
in favor Of creating second
front to save Russia. People who
know little about military oper-
ations wonder why the millions
of soldiers in Britain are not
being sent across the channel.
If the Soviet Union continues
to suffer serious setbacks 1t Is
possible the British people may
demand Mr.. Churchill's removal
because of the failure to save
Russia. In such case-which is
not yet a probability-no one
knows what kind OF government
may be established in England
and whether some who have re-
manned appears at heart may
listen to Hitler.
1t is highly improbable that the
British people will indorse any
government willing to make
ITS NOT TOO LATE
ESS3 TO SAVE OiIp SpINES
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lHe people HluSI
be told that we
can lose this
war. Intlmates
Of the President
declare he is
c nsi d er j n &
making either a
sta atement or a
"hreside chat
pointing out the
d a n er a n d
appealing ( o r
whole - hearted
sacrifices"
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THE opinions OF the oriters this their not
necessarily The Stars opinions presented in The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions interest to its
readers although opinions may contradictory among
themselves directly opposed to The Stars.
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I r o m I h e
B e Rim and
B u d a p e S t
radios. In the
one Heinrich
H | m m ! e r
offered t W o
m ! ! ! | o n
m a r ks re-
ward for in
or m a t i on
lea n & to
the arrest of
persons " h o
had set fires
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must be shaken out of their COM
placency" and made to realize that
the war can be lost. OF course, it
can be lost, but the place where It
can be lost Is not out in the country,
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but In Washington, where confusion
and incompetency reign and politics
is smeared all over the White House
doorstep.
(Copyrisht, 1912, BY Baltimore SUM
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Brenner Pass Reported
Closed for Two Days
H tht Associatsd Press.

- tnt AtS0cltC1u FfeS8.
NEW YORK. Aug. 6.--A British
broadcast heard yesterday by CHS
said the Brenner Pass, which link
Germany and italy, IA reported Il
have been closed for two days
There was no explanation.
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BY FRANK r. KENT.

Again there is in Washington
much talk about how to shame" the
country out of its complacency."
Administration writer's insist that
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On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

Two small news items that re-
Gently appeared induce chain
OF speculation. Both came from
neutral sources but were taken
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Trouble Laid
To Bad Steel
Distribution
Producers Finally
Given Chance to
| Direct Supply
" DAVID LAWRENCE.

SOB idea of what the breakdown
AT wilmington on the production
front hAns and what caused it can
"oe dered from taking steel and
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McLemore-
Rotionine Of Food
Gets His Approval
By HENRY McLEMORE.

I. for one. am not too much dis
mayed at the thought of gen.
eral rationing Of food.
There have been several broad
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Buy bonds and stamps for the boys
n the camps.
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Overtime PdY In
Defense Bonds Or
Stamps Is Legal

Deductions made for the purchase
of Defense Stamps or Bonds, when
authorized by the employe, are recog-
nized as legal deductions under the
Fair Labor Standards Act, Acting Ad-
ministrator Baird Snyder Of the
Wage and Hour Division, L. s. De-
partment Of Labor, announced today.
Many inquiries had come from en-
ployers as increasing numbers Of
workers arranged for purchase Of De-
fense Bonds.
"Employes are urged to give serious
consideration to plan under which
they can allot their overtime pay to
be put into Defense Bonds and
Stamps" Mr.. Snyder said. Various
kinds Of these allotment plans are
now being worked out by A. F. Of l..
and c. /. o. unions in different parts
Of the country among workers en-
gagged in production for victory,
Where deductions are made for De
fense Bonds, they must be the amount
actually paid for the bonds and no,
the face value Of the bonds These de-
ductions are sanctioned inasmuch "a
they fit the requirement under the
law that such transactions involve no
profit for the employer or anyone con-
nected with him and are made at the
I voluntary direction Of the employe
! concerned.
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Building Service Workers
Request Wage Increases

New York City GLNS).-Negotia-
tions have been started at the office
of the State Mediation Board for a
new working agreement involving
1900 A. F. Of L. building service
workers employed in 4C0 New York
midtown buildings. The unions ask
wage Increases and a shorter working
week. The present contract expires
February 3.
The negotiations are being held be-
fore the State Board because a clause
in the agreement provides that if pri-
vate negotiations were not completed
by December Is the discussions should
be resumed before the board. Negotia-
tions had been started Nov. 26 under
the old pact.
Eve" Once we do this we can face
the pressing problem of national de-
fense and make us-aS well as them
-invulnerable. Whatever eve" do to
consolidate our resources is our in
surance against any threat to our Sc
curity in the future-threat to the
security of you as well as me. The
war is upon us-and it is eve" who
must fight.
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English Methods Urged In
Solving Labor Problems

New York City GLNS)-Methods
similar to those used in Great Britain
to end labor disputes and to protect
small business as defense industry ex-
panded were recommended by Repre-
sentative Joseph c. Baldwin, New
York, in addressing the Advertising
Club here.
Representative Baldwin returned re-
Gently from trip to Britain, accom-
panied by five Of his associates in
Congress, to study the effects Of war
on English life and industry.
In talks with labor executives in
England, Baldwin said, he learned
that the disputes which had existed
between labor and management had
been easily adjusted" during the
war, even to the extent Of having
labor organizations make public their
| financial assets.
He quoted one British labor leader
to the effect that labor organizations
had gained more by getting wide pub
lie confidence than they might have
lost by letting management know the
extent of their finances.
Declaring that the rights Of the
small business man were important
both in England and in this country
Baldwin said the government in Eng
land gave ample protection" 50 that
the expansion Of industry in the war
period would not disrupt small plants
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I'VE" ARE
"1HEY"
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Each time the findings of a poll of
public opinion on current questions
appear, we scan the papers with
avidity that we may learn-what
"they" are thinking.
Public opinion is not something
aloof and apart, dealing with those
mysterious people known as "they."
In reality it is the combined thoughts,
opinions and prejudices Of you and
me. Whenever we use the phrase
"they say" what we really mean is
what 1--WE say" for "they" is
"we"--and eve" is you as well as me-
With the omniscience of hndsight,
we glibly and decisively state what
"they" should have done to avert the
situation which now menaces US, over
looking entirely that eve" are "they."
The "they" who said it was none OF
our funeral, that Europe could settle
it's own affairs, that what this man
Hitler did inside his own country had
| nothing to do with US, was simply you
and me. "We" were the ones who
shrugged and turned aside
Now at each new crisis we question
what "they" will do, never stopping
to think that in a democracy what
ever action "they" take is no more
and no less than what you and | de-
eide to go ahead and accomplish. eve"
have declared war-not "they."
| "They" cannot face and solve the
problem of today while "we" go about
our daily life, unchanged and un-
touched by what goes on around us.
1t is "our" problem, to be faced by
you and me, and the ultimate solu-
tion depends upon US.
One fact stands out in all accounts
of the months that preceded the fall
of France. 1t wasn't just treachey or
blindness which caused the catas-
trophe. The French people of all
classes simply did not accept the war
as theirs. Each group was 1--WE" and
the war belonged to "they"-and what
affected "they" could not touch "we -
Many times before in history has
this happened. The Medes and the
Persians fell before Alexander be-
cause of over-confdence that the wild
band Of barbarians planned to attack
''they" not eve" In our own history
the Deerfeld Massacre occurred be-
cause they were sure the Indians
would fall upon the 'they" of another
settlement. 1t was the same state of
mind that confronted the first light
ming rod salesman. Each farmer was
sure lightning would strike his neigh
bor's barn-not his.
| We must realize that "they" is only
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No. 175.-Sanitary, Trenton, N. J.,
Maurice Rizziello, 253 Elmer Street
Old Castlermini Hall, Clinton and
Mott Streets.
No. 176.-Porcelain, Macomb, Ill.
Sara Aemmer, 806 E. Murray St.
Meets first and third Thursday in
Lyons Bldg, Washington St.
No. III. - Sanitary, Robinson, Ill.
Lloyd Darnold, 21O E. Locust St.
Meets first and third Thursday in La
Dor Temple.
No. l7S-Artware, Sebring, Ohio.
June Abmyer, 333 w. Oregon Ave.
Meets first and third Wednesday IN
X. of p. Hail.
No. $50. - Artware, Huntington
Park, Calf. Cleo M. Motto, 1853 E.
6Sth Street, Los Angeles, Calf. Meets
first and third Wednesday in Towns
end Club Hall, corner Clarendon and
| Rugby Avenue.
! No. 181.-Tile, Porcelain and Art
ware, Trenton, N. J. Clara Bowers,
760 Pear st. Meets first and third
Tuesday in Falcon Hall, N. Olden
Avenue.
No. 183.-Generalware, Los An
geles, Calf Bert Madrid, 1850 Bimis
st. Meets first and third Wednesday
Of each month in Americal Hall, 227
North Ave- 55, Los Angeles.
No. 1S4.-Chinaware, Trenton, N. ].
| Waiter II. Smith, 666 Princeton Ave.
Meets second and fourth Thursday in
New Casteltermini Hall, Clinton and
Grant Streets.
No. 1S5-Porcelain, Trenton, N. J.
Samuel Marrone, 3l4 Elmer St.
No. 186.-China and Art Ware, Los
Angeles, Calf. James Johnson, 342S
Maceo ST., Los Angeles, Calf. Meets
first and third Monday Of each month
at 2209 N Broadway.
No. 187.-Porcelain, Trenton, N. J.
Leona Macorone, 36O1a No. Clinton
Ave. Meets second Thursday in Pol
ish hall, North Clinton and Brueing
Ave.
No. 1Ss.-Tile, Trenton, N. J. Gym.
thia McCauley, 1880 N. Olden Ave
Meets semi-monthly at Villalba Hall
] Local Union No. 189.-Feldspar
Erwin, Tenn. B. E. Cousins, R. D. No
l, Box 214. Meets first Monday night
after the 5th and goth of each month
No. 190.-Porcelain, East Liverpool
Virginia Jackson, 1857 Negley St
Meets first and third Friday in N. B
O. p. Banquet Hall.
No. 191.-General and China Ware
Hamilton, Ont, Canada. James An.
derson, Senator avenue, Hamilton
Ont, Canada.
No. 92.-Generalware, Warehouse
men, Packers, Decorating Kilnmen
Sebring, Ohio. William H. Berry, 445
Virginia avenue.
No. 193.-Sanitary, Trenton, N. j.
John Halliday, 1893 Second Street
Meets the first Tuesday, 725 N. Gin.
ton Avenue.
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where'd you GET your gun?

IRON the supply sergeant, of course. He
got it from the Ordnance Department
and they got it from factory. It's the
finest Army rifle in the world.
But before one factory wheel could
turn-for the first model or the finished
job-there had to be boyer-and most Of
it is electric. Electric power helped put
your Garand in your hands, Johnny.
1t takes tremendous lot of power to
make all the guns, tanks, planes and ships
we need-but America has lot. Power