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Doing Heroic Work

Jungle fighting in the southwest Pacific has
brought out the gratifying fact that Army and
Navy surgeons are doing no less heroic work
than the combat forces. The high proportion
Of non-fatal wounds is one of the heartening
aspects OF this desperate struggle
japanese snipers as class are poor shots.
But they inflict many wounds. Because there
the spot, the horror Of infection and death,
which otherwise would become almost unbear-
able, is largely overcome.
Reporting on the heroism and skill of Arny
doctors news dispatch from Munda, when
that Japanese base was under attack, said:
1T is heart-Warming experience to watch
the young surgeons working night and day,
mnlsterlng to the wounded Americans in the
gloomy depths of the New Guinea jungle. The
main responsibility for saving lives rests
with them. 1t has been the aim of the
medical corps in this campaign to give everv
wounded man preliminary treatment within a
few minutes after he has been hit. The
corps does it's job with the bullets and shrapnel
still flying.''
These are the same doctors that year or 50
ago were striving to build careers for them.
selves at home. Most of them have families
and all of them spent long years of study and
privation preparing to practice medicine. They
carry with them into battle wealth of knowl
edge and the best traditions Of the American
medical profession
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ICES resistance. This following IN,
cludes men of various political
faiths who presumably will reiula
to their old parties once the Id
ton is freed. Hence well or
ganized minority with a definite
attractive program might cap'A'
Frances postwar government
Just now it appears that Is
only element strong enough "
forge ahead of the communists ~
the French political field colsls, I
of the actively committed De 0','
lists here. They are building W.
orous organization. The Gross u
Lorraine is displayed and |o-,
everywhere as sort OF p@.3
symbol. But the postwar l'' ~,
tons of this group are eltne- 0'
certain or undisclosed, H..
Some of the most conseFVe-.
members of the national CONN
tee predict privately that there
bound to be greater govern,
intervention" in postwar Ia. ;.r,
Adrien Tixier, labor comlnlss-"g.
er, said recently that France ll- 5s,
have a social and economic O- ,s+.
that would be truly new, thai ~.
haps would include governas...
ownership of essential inou Sr:.
such as railroads, marine NO.! .3on
port, banks, power and produt,-..s
The communists support M
ideas. Hence it appears poSs.g-,
that men who call themselves co,.,
munists or whom their oppoN:; r,o
call communists may come n 10.
power to establish a SOCIALISM, II
gime. ..r 40
not expect an internatlonai rEes
tatorship of the proletarlat' ariIg
declare themselves pfiii"t+Iic'
French and DESTROYS OF a sL" .ast
independent France. They aoo .-- n
it is to Frances best inteFeS''
De friendly with Russia. ,,-
Thus Russia's victories anu ~: 10
obvious strength a re lncr ,',,ce
he sphere of Russian lhlI"'
IN the continent
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sent QlIIl from rance TWO IIOltIS
ago to act as its spokesman in
Algiers. He is now justice COM
missioner in the French commit
tee of national liberation and is
directing the purge of pro-Vichy
officials.
Others who have escaped recent
ly from France place the percent
age of communists as high as Is,
but add that perhaps half are fun
damentally fighters against h e
Germans, merely working w h
the communists as the most eff
ficient organization, as did h e
Corsicans. One of those who re-
Gently escaped, a royalist highly
placed in the right wing organiza-
ton Action Franchise" who be-
fore the war would not have been
seen in the same room with a
communist, said that he had been
working with the party.
"Once the Germans are chased
out" he asserted, ''if the COM
munists revert to their interna-
tionalism they viii lose half of
their membership" He added that
he thought the communists in
France would continue strongly
French while favoring close ties
with Russia. program which he
said would be widely supported.
There is widespread belief here
that France will be the key ma
ton for determining the extnt of
communism in western Europe.
Her geographical situation is i'm
portant and it is expected that she
will have the chance of a fresh
start after the war without suf-
fering at the same time-as Ger
many and Italy are expected to
suffer-a complete breakdown of
the old order.
General Charles de Gaulle, CO.
leader of the Committee of Ma
tional Liberation, said in a recent
speech in Corsica that the Medi-
terranean is a road toward our
national ally, dear. powerful Rus
sia." This is considered in part
as De Gaulle's recognition of the
part played by the communists of
Corsica in freeing the island from
the Axis.
Frenchmen here say that inside
France the communists lead in
labor walkouts, violent sabotage
and plots for risings against the
Germans. which are to ripen on
the day of invasion; thus they are
winning the confidence and respect
of their compatriots for themselves
and their party.
1.-The French people are no long
err afraid of the communists" De
Mention said recently, 'They ad-
mire the Russian armies; they use
the communists as shock troops
fighting the German occupation.
The communists offered at first
the only organized resistance. For
many workers whose unions were
dissolved the choice was either to
collaborate with the Germans or
work with the communists.
Naturally, they worked wi h
the communists.
One of the q communist ex-
deputies now here, declared the
party's strength had risen r m
about $4,000 in 1889 to about q
100000 now working in communist
cells and sending reports to Lon
don and Algiers.
1.-THE communists have perform
ed the most dangerous tasks; this
has gained them many adherents |
as we'll as admirers, this man
said. SIN a word it is patriotic
to be communist nowadays
Information here indicates that
about 70 per cent of Frenchmen
are De Gaullists. but to most of
these De Gaulle merely symbol !
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Bv JOSEPH f. DYNAN

ALGIERS, Oct. % III Com
munisn, not the theoetical social
economic system of the text books
but the hard working, hard fight
ing system of a people success
fully rolling back the Nazi war
machine, is making big strides to-
ward winning the approval of Eu-
ropes masses. The Russian ex-
pertinent as it is today, rather
than the revolutionary form of its
beginning a quarter century ago,
is making itself felt throughout
the continent.
With this grows the prospect of
a corresponding increase in Rus
sian influence on European and
Mediterranean affairs n d t h e
likelihood of much socialistic leg
islation by the regimes that will
emerge after the war.
Whether these regimes will be-
come definitely Sovietized, hoWey-
err, is doubtful, because of the ap-
parent shift of emphasis within
the communist body itself and the
nationalist, patriotic character of
it's new recruits. A primary fac
tor is Soviet Russias disarmament
Ct the organized Third Internation-
ale. Moreover much OF the ap-
parent communist strength now,
as before the war, may be chiefly
a protest against the failures of
old political systems and the self
perpetuating political clioues.
Algiers. headquarters for French
men working for the liberation of
their country and of the Allied
armies which already have plung-
ed into Europe from the south to
fight for its liberation, receives
reports through many channels Of
many nationalities from all parts
Of Europe. They give the follow
ing composite picture of the status
of communism on the continent:
Estimates place the proportion
of communists in France at be-
tween Is and Is per cent.
The communists of Spain, al
though driven underground, have
not lost their ardor or their or
ganization.
Germany and Italy offer likely
fields for further communist pen
etration among the working class
es who have been bearing t h
greater part of the costs n d
heartbreaks of war.
Much Of the active Yugoslav re-
sistance to German rule, in re-
cent months at least, has come
from communist inclined parti-
sans. This was confirmed by APP
War Correspondent Daniel de Luce
who actually visited the Yugoslav
partisan area earlier this month
the first and only Allied news
paperman to achieve this feat. De-
Luce found communism strong
among the partisans, whose uni
forms bore the red star as well
as the hammer and sickle insignia
Of communist Russia, but parti-
san leaders told him their politi-
cal detectives were nationalistic.
In Corsica, on the other hand,
Yves Gallagher, another APP man,
found local patriots had flocked to
communist leadership simply be-
cause it provided the only real
underground organization W h C h
could be used against the Ger
mans and Italians. Corsicans just
laugh at suggestions that the COM
munist-led successes might reult
in communist government, he
says.
Czechoslovak spokesman assert
their country's hope for postwar
security lies in firm ties with
Russia.
Bulgaria, despite h r declara-
tons of war on Britain and the
United States, refrains from fight
ing Russia, because of racial kim
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ship and traditional friendship
with the Russian people.
Throughout the Balkans the
great Slavic nation of the east is
regarded by many as a protector
against Teutonic aggression.
Correspondents who have served
with the British forces assert that
a substantial percentage of Britons
fighting in the ranks today have
communist leanings, partly be-
cause of their admiration for Rus
sia's fighting strength, partly be-
cause they see in communism one
answer to their desire for social
reform in Britain.
Throughout the continent, mil
lions grooming under the Nazi yoke.
distraught by their current mis-
cry and inspired by the example
of Russia's magnificent resistance
to the Germans. are coming more
and more to regard communists
as their leaders in the f G h t
against oppression. Suspicion Of
the communist and distrust Of
their motives seem to be disap-
pearing among people who e
working closely with radical
groups to overthrow Nazi donina-
ton.
These people are coming to a
new evaluation of communist
methods as they see communists
risking and frequently losing their
lives to wreck Hitler's plans. The
communist "celr' or infiltration
methods, developed in civil strife,
are proving an effective weapon
for. resistance.
In some territories, as in Cor
sica, it has been vital factor in
the fight against the Nazis.
Evidences of the advancing IA
vor with which communism is re-
garded come from many parts of
Europe, but there are indications
also that this applies to a new,
moderated form of communism
fitted into local, patriotic patterns
FARTHER than to the communism of
the international revolutionary type
which the Stain leadership has
publicly discarded.
Twenty-seven communists W h O
were members of the French
Chamber of Deputies before
Frances fall, freed from the Vichy
regimes internment by the Allied
landings in North Africa, assert
there has been a great increase
in the support given the commu-
INST party by French patriots and
IN the sympathy given the party
by non-members.
Francois de Mention, a French
liberal and non-communist, cites
communist leadership of resistance
to the Nazis. His personal esti-
mate is that IS per cent of France
now is communist. France's pre-
war Chamber of Deputies contain
ed 70 communists in a member
ship of 616.)
A leader of resistance in France
since 1910. De Mention became
member of the council of resist
ance" of the underground. which
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the New, acsept, no
'esponsiblity for the personal views Of Mr. Peser.
ind often disagree with them much A. many OF
his readers His articles servo the good purpose Of
making people think.
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Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The encouragements to soul-wlnnms
arc greater than the difficulties. We
have only the devil working against US;
we have God working with us.
Charles Galladaudet Trumbull.
, 1943-04-28
Labor Will Be Hurt

A continuance of the present
trend of holding only n side of
the line is not only going to be
harmful to labor and low-income
groups. It is going to result in a
breakdown of the whole system
of anti Imitation controls. To hold
the line on one side and yield on
the other means giving the enemy
a chance to execute a turning
movement and involve all of us
in a common catastrophe.
Labor has no selfish stake in
this fight against initiation. It's
stake is the public stake, the ma
tons stake-victory in the war
and in the peace. To win the fight
against initiation, labor is making
sacrifices greater than those that
have been asked from many other
groups. It does not begrudge max
ing these sacrifices. It asks only
that these sacrifices be not In vain.
Labor and consumer groups
must bring pressure to bear on
congress and on all the economic
control agencies of the government
to the end that vigorous steps be
taken at once to reverse the rising
cost of living and roll back prices
to September Is levels. It is not
too late to prevent initiation If the
people act and act now.
, 1943-04-28

statement to the Journal of Com
merce he has assured business
that the Presidents order will not
block the upward readjustment
of ceilings. Contrary to the Presi-
dents policy of using subsidies to
prevent price increases to the pub
lie, Mr.. Herring, according to the
Journal of Commerce, indicated
that the price administration will
make every effort to avoid sub
sides and to effect the adjustment
in costs through an upward revis-
ion Of ceiling prices whenever
possible"
In plain words, this means that
the trade groups which oppose
subsidies because they may block
free access to consumers pocket
books are to have the support of
OPA, and that subsidies are to be
used only when they do not stand
in the way of inflationary profits.
In view of the business ap-
policy of the OPA there
is obviously no thought of rolling
back the prices which in the Presi-
ident's words are Excessively
high, unfair or inequitable." On
the contrary, a continued rise in
food prices may be expected if
the present plans to permit weekly
adjustment of price ceilings by
individual food stores are ap-
proved. These plans, fathered by
the trade interests in OPA's food
division, have been blocked once
by Justice Byrnes, but they are
being pushed again notwithstand-
ing their manifest violation of the
terms of the Presidents executive
order.
, 1943-04-28
801 Campaign
OF 70 Good
Stort

The organizing campaign in
Local 8O1 started off with 342 new
members for the first month. The
contest started March l, 1913, and
ends July J.. 1913.
Walter Fuchs, chairman of the
organizing committee for the drive
has arranged for the various plant
committees to meet the first and
third Tuesdays of each month at
10 a. m. Each plant has a main
committee with subcommittee on
each shift. The four plants have
a total of 48 people active in see
ing that the contest moves ahead
in the proper manner. Chairmen
for the various plants are Will
liam Taylor, Plant No. l; Leslie
Stienhilber, Plant No. 2; Harry
Clarke, Sr., Plant No. 3, and Gene
Snow, Plant No. 4.
Prizes will be awarded the
member in each plant who brings
in the most members during the
contest, these r to be in the
form of War Bonds. The member
who brings in the most girl men,
bers during the contest will re-
ceive a $50 War Bond. Every
member of Local 8O1 is eligible
to participate. The only rules are:
That each application turned in
must have the name of the one
claiming credit written plainly on
the top face along with the plant
and shift they work on.
Only by taking an active part
in the drive can the members OF
Local 8O1 hope to make 1t a COM
plete success, successful in more
than just one way. A strong organ
ization will not only protect the
rights of its members, but will
get additional privileges that seem
unobtainable. Cutting of time
studies can be eliminated, un-
favorable answers on some Of the
grievances can be stopped, anc
those of supervision who take the
dictatorial attitude can be elm
mated.
You, the members of Local 8O1
now have the opportunity te
straighten up some of the thing:
that have existed, and get paid fol
doing it. Let's get in there anc
pitch for a 100 per cent organ
ization in Frigidaire.
The organizing committee has {
membership contest board witt
each plant and shift listed Thi.
board is covered with Japanese
planes, tanks, submarines ane
Nazi war equipment for elimina'
ton. Five new members elimin-
ates one of the rats pieces Of
equipment and places an American
flag over the top of them. Sixty
five new members are indicated
by an Uncle Sans hat and the
winner covers Hirohito's face with
Uncle Sans picture and flatten.
HitIer's with an American Eagle
See this board in Local SOL Office
and see where your shift stand:
in the contest.
, 1943-04-28

ILLS 4GGL ID N4NoA "a S@~ ~N~@
of the past 10 days. On the side
of wages, which had already been
stabilized under past rulings OF
the War Labor Board, we have
seen a succession of draconian
edicts aimed at freezing inequities
and at claiming workers to ill-pay-
ing jobs. On the side Of prices,
where the breakdown of controls
had already amounted to a scan
dal, we have seen legalized price
increases and a continuance of
the OPA policy of soft enforce
ment.
The ink was scarcely dry on the
Presidents executive order when
an increase in the price of feed
corn was authorized by the OPA
and the Food Administration. This
increase, accomplishing much of
the purpose of the vetoed Bank
head bill, was authorized despite
the Presidents solemn assurance
that "no further price increases
are to be sanctioned unless i'm
peratively required by law" The
exclamation that this is a read
justment IN price relationships
which will not increase the cost
of living is scarcely convincing. In
view of the attitude of congress
towards subsidy payments, it is
only too likely to result in an in
crease in living costs.
A fragrant increase in retail meat
prices, which vas scheduled to go
into effect on April Is, was tenn
porarily averted as a result Of
labor protests. But in view of the
intrenchment of trade interests in
the OPA organization and the ex-
IRENE reluctance of Food Admin
istrator Davis to agree to ceilings
on livestock, this victory may
prove short lived.
Repeatedly since April 8, Food
Administrator Davis has declared
that he will not authorize the price
administrator to put ceilings on
hogs and beef cattle If he can pos
sibly avoid it. The President
ordered both of these officials
to place ceilings on all .commodi-
ties affecting the cost of living
The only explanation that has
been offered for this failure to
comply with the Presidents order
is that the livestock ceilings may
be difficult to administer. But
this explanation in itself con-
demned by the Presidents state
ment that "the only way to hold
the line is to stop trying to fine
justification for not holding il
here and not holding it there"
OPA Aids Business
The statement of responsible
OPA officials since the Presidents
order indicate that OPA will con-
tinue to administer price contro
with a view to helping bushes:
rather than the hard-pressed con-
sumner. Price Administrator Brown
continues his filibuster against hi
own order for the grade Labelling
of canned goods. Because of the
Gamers pressure, he now pro-
fesses doubt as to his authority tt
prevent the evasion Of price cell.
ings by tying prices to grades, ane
wants congress to pass new >legis'
Iation on the subject. We r no
going to win the battle agains
initiation by conducting an admin
istrative filibuster whenever trade
groups object to price control en-
forcement.
Ex-senator Herring, chief assis.
, 1943-04-28
Go Attacks One-Sided
Administration Of Order
A Statement by the Cost of Living Committee, CIC

The Presidents "ho1d the line" order of April 8 is being admins
tered as a hold one side Of the line" order-as a directive to freeze
wages and to freeze workers into their jobs, but to do nothing about
prices and the mounting cost of living.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-02-18

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-02-18
Farm Training
Course Opens

The second OF ~ series of dairy
: and general farming training course,
. designed To- equip les experienced
| farm men and boys 10 take place.
/ on mO.C productive farms !" help III
the nations food production pro
gram. Is under way al North Caro-
ma State College.
There arc 81 CnrullCCs IN the cur
rent course. from which the same
| number graduated last week and
were placed on farms throughout
the tate instruction during the
thrcC-WcCk courses given by the
North Carolina State College of Ag-
rculturc with the assistance uI the
board OF vocational education.
through its rural war production
training program.
Workers taking the training were
recruited by the l.. S. Employment
Service and the Farm Security Ad-
mIniStratIOn lr,m small farms in
western North Carolina. Upon com
rlction of the training they will be
assisted by USES and FSA in find
ing Jobs on essential dairy farms
having labor shortage.
Transportation and expenses while
al the college are provided by Farm
Security. Where necessary. FSA as
Sr5iS the family 10 move to the new
job.
Professor Il. II. Ruffncr. of the
animal huSbandry and dairy depart
ncnt. Is in charge of the course.
Tho 81 trlanCcS from western North
Carolina who completed the dairy
l..
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-02-18
ANSM ERR

!. During the first year %! the
War, i.73. a Salisbury merchant MAS
charged with raising ~, gI cr> ul
goods 20 a higher price level tina"
"c had charged during the previous
Year. The Safety Cuu..;lrc OF
N'Nna COu"ty ordered that ills name
e published in an adyrr;.,r,rut IN
the South Carolina Gazette. ne only
HoW>papc" circulating IN the west
crM part of this State. The mCrch-
mt was charged in The advertise
"rni with being an enemy 10 the
.'Mmon cause of Liberty"
The name Wake Forest" or
'ac "Fore-i Of Wake" applied origin
l.y 10 the cHtIrc district WITHIN WuNc
"UntN. lying north ut tie NruSC
river and between NE Raleigh
..'U>oUrg and Raleigh-ON.rri lads
y one lime the entire ..rd Wa
.uIr""G bv fine flores, CD. ...guai
., y Wake Forest Academy nai
.,'" established in 1893. l... iu>ti-
Co. n"cgm" Wake ray,-' t..icg ,
. 49,. Wake Forest pos; Office -.
-n...y established IN 1898. al!
..,"- their names from '.y nan,"
-E"" he surrounding c.w'ry.
Tn" H. ward Amendment.
.HNI is Inc Fouricru'. Aurmd
went. di~Iramchised practically a!l
.'n> ". he State who ..d taken
~ par: "a state and c.~'v COY
n""M'. md M the same 'Iarr en-
..anc'.>"n all the former slaves.
'-dv" tho amendment the, :.ouS.
.Hu- ~ citizens were d!s.r.ucHI>ou
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