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Evening star., 1942-10-08
Alpha Gamma Delta
70 Meet Tomorrow

The first supper meeting this sea-
son will be held by the Washington
Alumnae Club of Alpha Gamma
Delta at o'clock tonight at the
home of the new president, Mrs. w.
A. Shannon, SOL Aspen street, Ia
koma Park.
Installation of officers will be held
following supper. New officers, in
addition to Mrs. Shannon. are Mrs
M, A, eastman, vice president; Miss
Ethel Riley, secretary; Miss Eliza
beth Lisle, treasurer: Mrs. c. R..
Todd editor; Mrs. C. V. Strain
chairman of Red Cross activities,
and Mrs. c. w. Lane, jr., chairman
of publicity.
Mrs. Shannon is in charge OF
reservations.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Wilson College Club
Plans Luncheon

Paul Swain Havens, president Of
Wilson College, will be guest
speaker at the autumn luncheon of
the Wilson College Club of WASH
rngton at Ills pm. Saturday at the
American Association of University
Women's Clubhouse, 1884 street
NV.
Officers of the club are Miss
Eleanor V. Bosserman, president;
Miss Margaret v. Springer, vice
president; Mrs. Werner c. Boggs, cor
responding secretary; Miss Jeanne
Merrick, recording secretary, and
Mrs. Leslie V. Smith, treasurer.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Silver Spring
Women Hear
News Analyst
Morgan Beatty Yarns
Against False Prophets
Of Peace

A warning that "false prophets
Oh peace" may attempt to terminate
the war before victory has been won
by the United Nations was sounded
by Morgan Beatty, radio commen-
tator and news analyst, before mem
oers OF the Silver Spring Woman's
Club at the opening meeting of the
season yesterday.
Mr.. Beatty, who spoke before the
club assembled in the new audi
torium Of the Jessup Blair Commu-
nifty Center at Georgia and Alaska
avenues. predicted that the next
year will be one of the gravest which
has yet faced the Nation.
"A grave problem which will con-
'front.' us will be the propaganda of
the false prophets of peace in the
tnlrd year OF crisis" he said. THE
importance of the third year of
crisis was evident in the Civil War,
In World War I, and in the present
World War. We will reach our third
year OF crisis in 1943 and 1914. We
will have lost many men and we
VIII be more hungry and more
threadbare than we are now. Let
us then beware of peace propa-
ganda before we have won a vic
tory" he continued.
The speaker cited the Baruch re-
port on rubber as a prediction that
the rubber problem alone would
create an internal crisis in the last
quarter Of 1943 and the first half of
1914.
we in the United States must
whip our own problems here at
nome and stand by our men in the
service and our leaders," he added,
and after the war keep our forces
under arms until we see where we
are going"
Mr.. Beatty spoke at the morning
session following a brief talk by
Mrs. Charles Kruger, jr., nursing
chairman of the Montgomery County
Federation of Womens Clubs. Mrs.
Kruger, who is registered nurse
and served in the last war, made
plea for volunteer nurses aides
and also urged that members en-
courage young women relatives or
friends to start training as regular
nurses.
Luncheon followed the program,
which was in charge of Mrs. c.
Robert Steele, chairman of the de-
partment of American citizenship
and education.
The afternoon program, arranged
by the home and garden depart
ment, headed by Mrs. George E.
Grove. included a talk on Flower
Arrangement" by Mrs. Matilda Kolb
Bartlett.
Mrs. G. Russell Shetterley, club
president, presided at the business
meeting following luncheon. Host
esses included Mrs. A. Victor Am
mann, Mrs. Harold Allen. Mrs.
Harry M. Atherton, Mrs. John w,
Ayers, Mrs, Clarence Bauer and Mrs.
Ray T. Bergstrom.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Alumnae Will Meet

The Washington Alumnae Chapter
of Sigma Kappa will hold its first
fall meeting at pm. tomorrow in
the apartment of Zeta Chapter.
George Washington University. 2129
G street NV, All Sigma Kappas in
Washington and vicinity are invited
to attend.
Officers of the chapter are Mrs.
Arthur L. Lanigan, president; Mrs.
B. H. Farman, vice president; Mrs.
George Wenzell, treasurer; Miss
Dorothy Sornborger, secretary: Miss
Marian Bailey, registrar. and Mrs.
Earl Bassett, Triangle correspondent.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Mark Anniversary

Mrs. Aaron D. Newman, past presi-
dent OF the District branch, League
OF American Pen Women, has invited
friends to the golden wedding an
niversary celebration which she and
Mr.. Newman will hold from pm.
through the evening Sunday at their
home, 4315 Argyle terrace NV.
In addition to having held the
Office OF president of the District
League in 1928, Mrs. Newman has
been active in many Washington
clubs and is the founder of the fell
lowship teas which are annual at
fractions of the Pen Women's pro-
grams throughout the winter season.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
PEO Group Meets

The first meeting OF the season
was held by Chapter A of the PEO
Sisterhood last night with Mrs. Inez
M. Hare, president. presiding. Host
esses included Miss Dorothy Bixby,
Mrs. Cassie Bixby and Mrs. Mary P.
Davis.
The chapter has selected 1851
Columbia road as its central meeting
place for the duration. Women in
the War" will be the topic for the
coming year.
Evening star., 1942-10-08

ent conditions in Austria coming
through underground sources. The
speaker will evaluate the principles
OF Austrian policies past and future
In relation to the world at war.
THE big landlords of Hungary,
the Archduke says. ARE still cling
ing to an old civilization which they
don't know has vanished. We will
never 60 back to that. This war
will start real democracy in Gen.
tral Europe"
The lecture series is being planned
under the direction of Mrs. Arthur
Newman, president of the council,
and Mrs. Charles Schlesinger, pro-
gram chairman. There will be no
admission charge and the public is
invited to attend.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Drive to Be Opened

A drive to raise funds for the pur-
chase of station wagons to be pre-
sented to the Army and Navy will
be opened by Beta Sigma Oniicron
national sorority Saturday evening.
An outdoor supper cooked over an
open fireplace at the home of Mrs.
Charles Edwin Barton, 6223 Thirty
third street. Chevy Chase, D. c., will
be an attraction of the evening. Mrs.
Robert M. De Shazo is chairman in
charge of the drive Any member
of the sorority recently arrived in
Washington may obtain further de-
tails from Mrs. Alexander Mathis,
president of the local chapter.
Evening star., 1942-10-08
Wesleyan Alumnae
To Hold Luncheon

A talk on a recent trip to CO.
lombia and Peru will be given by
Mrs. Carl T. Aslakson before men,
bers of the Wesleyan Alumnae at
a luncheon meeting at Ills pm.
Saturday at the Parrott.
The speaker has travelled extern
sively in South America with her
husband, 1t. Comdr. Aslakson,
United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
All Wesleyan alumnae in Wash
ington are invited to attend.
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/. S. Labor
CONTINUED from Page one)

And because industrial leaders
realize this, the constant urgirgs of
the Wage and Hour division that null
tiple-shift operations be adopted are
meeting with increased support. A
recent survey of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reveals that two-fifths of
the armament plants surveyed were
operating on schedules of more than
100 hours a week, while three-quart-
ers of the plants were operating some
department at least 120 hours week,
and all but 10 per cent operated for
more than 20 hours a week. 1t is
obvious that American industry. in
it's effort to outproduce the axis, is
striving to utilize every bit of plant
capacity and equipment, using multi
pie shifts of workers to maintain such
a pace.
With some millions of persons still
unemployed, it is possible to keep the
production lines in action on a round
the-clock basis without employing the
same workers for unduly long hours.
AS Donald H. Davenport, of the bu-
reau of labor statistics, points out,
conservation of manpower through a
general frightening of the workweek
is not likely to be necessary until
1913"
"As a matter of fact" Mr. Daven-
port says, there will be a pressing
need in 1912 to find additional en-
ployment opportunities for civilian
production in order to maintain the
level of labor at the highest possible
level. Men and women will be avail
able or can be made available in
larger numbers than they are likely
to be used"
Summarizing, it is obvious that the
war production effort is not being inn
peded by either labor or labor laws.
Labor is periodically and enthusiast
ically producing to win the war; and
the safeguards against exploitation
and labor conditions detrimental to
the maintenance of the minimum
standard of living necessary for
health, efficiency, and general we'll
being of workers" which the Wage
and Hour Law provides, are not only
not hindering but actually are helping
to achieve the goal of maintained pro-
duction which all Americans seek.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
war CONTRACT BROKERS'
PR0FITEERING REVEALED
Evidence Brought Before the House Naval
Affairs Committee Shows Unreasonable
Fees Paid With Taxpayers Money To
s'Sales Engineers"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
evidence of profiteering by war con-
tract brokers, who even received fees
on work in government plants, was
disclosed July Is OF the house naval
affairs committee.
On the carpet was the sales engi-
neering firm of Shirley, Olcott e. Mich
OILS, which holds commission contracts
with 46 firms and made a profit of
S646,7O1 for the first six months of
1912. The company consists of three
men: A. P. Shirley, former army ma
jor and F. B. Olcott and F. G. Nichols,
formerly civilian employees of the
Navy department.
Bringing the point home, commit
tee chairman Carl Vinson 3D., Ga.)
said: ''You three men sitting here in
Washington are getting 81 $50 each
day every day for the first six
months of this year, including Sun
day, while boys are dying at Bataan
and Corregidor and on the Lexing-
ton"
Charging that the firm has an in
side track at the Navy department,
Vinson went on: you've built up a
clientele and created the impression
that these people (the companies)
have to come to you to get business
with the government"
Testimony against the sales engi-
neering firm was given by an official
of one of its clients, Vice Pres. ]. B..
Decker of the Triumph Explosive Co.
of Elkton, Md, which operates a $4,-
100000 government-built plant as well
as its own.
Decker said that the firm got 1%o
commission on all navy work obtained
by the government plant, which SO far
has $24,0O0,OO0 in orders, and 21a %
commission on all the work obtained
for the company plant.
Under cross examination Olcott adj
mitted that part of the commission
had been kicked back to Decker.
Other war contract brokers to be
investigated include Horace Ward,
who pocketed $4,000 in IS months;
officials of William Scrimgerour &
Sons, which received $350,000 in fees
since 1899; and John j. Orr, who got
more than $4,000 since January 1871.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
SWING TOWARD
DEPRESSION IN
U. S. CONTINUES
BY SCOTT NEARING

During the great depression, U. S
business spokesman and business pub
locations kept insisting that a real
The country has now been at wal
for more than half a year, but the
swing from prosperity to depression
continues.
u. S. economy has not yet been put
on total war basis, but the process
| is we'll advanced. Entire industrial
units, such as plane and auto, are
being converted to do war work ex
clusively.
The appropriation bills passed by
congress in the last minute rush on
June 80 will enable the government to
buy more than one half of the total
output of the productive apparatus.
If war is the remedy for business
depression, U. S. business should now
be booming.
War production is booming, of
course, but it is not booming steadily.
The index of business activity in the
u. S. stands far above the prosperity
levels of 1929. But where as the New
York Times business index touched
40 in January 1912, by the end of
June 1912 it had fallen 10 points to
100. In the meantime war appropria-
tons had increased in volume.
The u. S. Department of Commerce
on June 20 reported that while the
output of durable goods, now almost
exclusively for war purposes, had nj
creased 7 points over April 1912, the
output of non-durable goods largely
for civilian use) remained stationary.
In the same period there was a
substantial decrease in the amount OF
crude oil run to stills. Commercial
loans had dropped slightly and the
home mortgages approved by Federal
Housing Administration was less than
a third of the March 1912 peak
Business activity has not expanded
steadily with enlarged war orders. In
stead, it reached a peak in January of
this year and has since been dropping
steadily to its present levels.
From the depression low of 1888,
U. S. business recovered slowly to
the prosperity high of April-August
1887. Then business activity receded
with great rapidity to the new de-
preston low of April-June 1888.
Recovery began in July of that year.
Irregularly business activity advanced
to the highest point in it's history at
the end of January 1912. But it stayed
at this high level for only few
weeks. Since then it has been reced-
ing irregularly.
Whatever war may do to the profit
economy of the U. S., and it has al
ready modified it profoundly, it has
not yet changed its cyclic character.
Prosperity is no more permanent I'M
der war conditions than it was under
peace conditions, as many business
men and workers are finding out to
their cost. An advance toward pros
perity is followed now, as it has been
for the last $50 years, by a retreat
toward depression.
The experience of World War II
confirms that of World War l. War
does not solve the contradictions of
price-profit economy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

to as standard, the grist of the play
wrights' mills is in descending mar
ket. The average tells the tale.
While Warmers paid $150,O00-plus
for Watch on the Rhine, they got
Brooklyn, U. S. A., for only $4,000.
Columbia put out $500 for Pal Joey
but only $500 for Angela Is 81.
RKO played close to the belt, pay
ing $751; each for three plays, with
Father Malachis Miracle thrown in,
as it were, for $500.
MGM bought consistently at less
than the average for the entire in
dustry. Cabin in the Sky went to the
roaring lion for $4,000 and of three
other plays taken by MGM the lowest
paid was $27,5OO. No plunging, no
penny-pinching.
It's that conservative policy that en-
ables Loew's, which own MGM, to pay
the government $2,849,830 for six
months taxes, slip $2,600,OO0 into the
hip pocket labeled contingencies,
write off $1,730,743 for wear and tear
on non-human elements in picture
making, and have $5,292,541 net profit
left. 1t also indicates how Louis B.
Mayer earns his personal salary of
$704,000.
$8,333-A-WORD: That's what Sol
Lesser paid for the right to Stage
Door Canteen as a film title The
three words were worth $4,000 to
him, and he still has to furnish
story based on the Broadway recrea-
ton center the American Theater
Wing runs for service men. Para
mount, already making such a film,
would have paid $4,000 for the title,
but Lesser's offer went further. He
agreed to get the financing, make the
picture with only $4,000 and 10 of
the gross for his own services, and
turn all profits over to charities
named by the canteen..
PARAMOUNT TOOK THE TIP:
After Irving Berlin turned down $780,,
900 cash for his musical, This Is the
Army, Paramount agreed to film it
on a non-profit basis, get Mark Sand
rich to direct and top stars to act
without salary. Profits will go to
Army Emergency Relief.
AND 10Th FOX CATCHES ON:
John Steinbeck is touring army and
air corps bases gathering facts for
book called Bombs Away. Sight I'M
seen goth Century-Fox is guaranteeing
q OE0 0n0 1,io IN film i11cr
all profits to the Army Air Corps.
Steinbeck will turn over his share to
Army Emergency Relief.
ARMY EYES FILMS: A priorities
deal with any aspect of the army is
being set up at Washington by the
pictorial division of army public rela-
lions. Col. w. Mason Wright Jr. ex-
planned the plan to the producers OPP
Grating under the Hays Office and to
heads of the two Independent groups.
Producers big and small agreed unani-
to let the army in on all plans
in which one character wears U. S.
uniform.
AND FILM CAMERAMEN: init.
Photographers Local 659, Init. ALI
ance of Theatrical Stage Employees
(AFL), has so members in armed
forces, many handling cameras under
fire in the battles of the Pacific. More
are sought. There are recruiting
agents in Hollywood and it is ex-
pected that the government services
could use 1000 lensers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Making Survey of us. Co-ops

WASHINGTON.-The U. s. bureau
OF labor statistics is bringing up to
date its directory of us. consumer
co-operatives. This material should
reveal very interesting new facts on
the growth of U. S. co-operatives
since the last directory was compiled
several years ago.
Co-operatives all over the country
receiving questionnaires from the U.
S. bureau of labor statistics are urged
to give the completest possible CO.
operation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
Senator Charges
Continued from Page One)

1.-THE finance committee is prepar-
ing to receive a tax bill from the
house What is tax bill? 1t is a
proposal to assess upon the people a
demand for a portion of their produc-
ton Yet we cut down production
and then we say We will raise taxes
to pay subsidies to stimulate produc-
ton The two things are absolutely
contradictory. Mr.. President, there is
no way to solve this question except
by turning loose the inventive genius,
energy, and industry of America. The
way to do that is to forget about fixed
investments and who is to control in
dustry after the war. If this war is
not won by the United Nations, the
stock of the U. S. Steel Corporation
will not be worth mills on the dollar.
We must put behind us all thoughts
of fixed investments and must begin
to produce with the things we have. "
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

DETROIT The Detroit Cleveland
Navigation Co. has been told by the
Natl. War Labor Board that operat-
ing at a loss is no excuse for paying
substandard wages. The case went to
the board last June after a strike of
the Seafarers Init. Union (AFL).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
L. S. Steel
Continued from Page one)

line, the corporation will follow a
different policy, and the public will
know little or nothing of its goings-on.
The steel industry is one of the half
dozen most important links in the
economic chain on which the future
of 13O,00O,O00 Americans depends.
Steel production is today as much a
part of public business as the post
office or the highways.
The people are entitled not only to
the facts about steel production pol
icy, but to the determination of that
policy, at the polls and through their
chosen representatives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

SAN FRANCISCO-A 1910 law ban
ming the Communist party from the
advocates or practices overthrow of
the U. S. government has been held
unconstitutional by unanimous deci-
sion of the California supreme court.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

be taken as hard
headed retrench-
ment. The previous
years average was
sS3,333.
Figures are based
on t h e Broadway
show-buying of eight
studios; season of
1940-41 some $4,000,
900 was paid for "a
shows; season o f
1941-42 it is $1,122,-
500 for Fl shows.
SO despite that
quarter m I'LL o n
which William Saro-
van hOnefu11v nOintS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

ERIE, Pa.-With the aid of union
tenants and the local labor paper, the
OPA has obtained its first injunction
to enforce rent ceilings. The writ
handed down in Pittsburgh by U. S.
Judge f. P. Schoonmaker, restraints
Baldwin Bros, Erie realty firm, from
collecting rent in excess of legally
established ceilings.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

INDIANAPOLIS.-(FPE-I ndiana's
seven congressman have been urged
by the Indiana Industrial Union Coun-
Gil to sign a petition to get the Geyer
anti?poll tax bill on the floor of the
house. 49,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

CHICAGO.-A suit for an injunction
against fake organization which
calls itself the U. S. Federation of
Labor has been filed in Cook county
superior court by the Illinois Fedora
ton of Labor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
HOLLYWOOD
LOT
BY TED TAYLOR

You may think Hollywood is spend
thrift in putting out 100000 for a
play here and $225,OO0 for a play
there. Actually the figures show that
Hollywood is averaging only $54,SS1
each for plays this year. This can
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

SAN DIEGO. - Thousands of union
construction workers working on u.
S. marine project at Camp Pendleton
near here are being denied copies of
The Labor Leader, AFL paper, by
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

The drive to save household fats is
expected to net 50O,O0O,O0O pounds
year, or enough to make from so to
100 million pounds of glycerine; 100
pounds of fats will yield enough glyc-
crime to make PAN pounds of nitro
glycerin.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

Four single-bed size sheets use as
much linen as goes into the wings,
fuselage and ailerons of one type of
training plane.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24
Still Termites

Still TermlteS
"Pro-Axis" papers in this country
apparently have taken a lesson from
the fate which befell Father Cough
Inns Social Justice"
Where Social Justice" in many re-
spects openly praised Germanys pol
icies, Gerald L. K. Smiths "The Cross
and the Flag" for example, remains
silent Where Social Justice" open
ly attacked collaboration with Russia
and Britain, THE Cross and the Flag
merely warns as to consequences.
The "pro-axis" press, however, con
tinues its open attacks on our govern
ment from the President down. They
figure that they are safe here, for we
consider it good democratic policy tc
allow airing of grievances against oul
| leaders.