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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-30

Urging American people, and eS- pecially the people of the churches, to understand and do something about the prejudices of American whites against the Negroes, Jews, Japanese, Chinese and others in this country, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in Am erica says: "As Christians, each of us should enlist in the organized movement for interracial brother hood, and wherever there is a struggle for the advancement of all the people, be in the lead; be un- prejudiced and wise enough to bridge and cross the chasms of ra- cial isolation and segregation; give active support to the Fair En- ployment Practice Committee a. gainst discrimination in employment and in industry; vigorously oppose all policies and practices of racial discrimination in the armed Ser- vices"
 The, Rev. Charles E. Winter, of San Francisco, Calif., Methodist missionary in Hinghwa, Fukien China, reports that in addition tc high prices and scarcity of food I the people of that area are now I-menaced by an outbreak of bubonie
 plague. This disease, usually fatal
 is carried by the flea, which in turn
 is carried by the rat," he says. "Ont | town where 200 people died from
 the plague last year, has a nove
 scheme this year; each shop and
 household has assessed five rats
 dead or alive; for each rat ovel
 the quota, the family received $1
 and for each rat under the quota it was assessed $1. The rat
 are coming in"
Evening star., 1943-10-31

system Is much favored by the
oblong form of chamber" With his
own natural genius for the humor-
Gus touch, he warned against the
possible danger of such an assem-
bly, place as would break down nat
ural political distinctions. His next
point was frankly serious. The
House, in his conception, should
be small-as it was before the war.
If it were large enough to seat all Of
its members, "nine-tenthS of its de-
bates would be conducted in the
depressing atmosphere of an almost
empty room. The Prime Minister,
in closing, contended: "The essence
of good House of Commons speaking
is a conversational style, with facil-
tiles for quick informal interruption
and interchangeS. Harangue from
the rostrum would be a very bad
substitute for our conversational
style, in which so much of our bust
ness is done. The conversational
style requires fairly small chamber,
and there should be on great occa-
sions sense of crowd and urgency"
So the roof does matter very much
indeed, and The Star is glad to
believe that Mr.. Churchill's proposal
will be adopted and that the new"
Commons will be the old Commons
reconstructed but not remOdeled.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
One-Sided Bombino

The figures speak for themselves.
: In the four weeks ending October
25, according to Air Secretary Sir
Archibald Sinclair, the Royal Air
Force dropped more than 1900 tons
OF explosives on Germany. while
in the same period the Luftwaffe
dropped only 16O tons on England.
This spectacular one -sidedness-and
1t does not include the thousands of
tons unleaShed by our American
bombers-is not a recent develop
ment. 1t has been one of the big and
highly significant facts of the war
for some months past. 1t measures,
as we'll as anything can, the extent
of the decline in Nazi power ever
since that power reached it's peak in
the summer of last year and then
began to drop with Rommel's defeat
at Ell Alamein and the disaster at
Stalingrad.
In the light of Sir Archibalds
figures, the clear and simple truth
seems to be that what with the east
tern front, the Italian front and the
increasingly violent air front over
Western Europe, the Luftwaffe has
become wholly incapable of counter
ing our blows in the sky or of retail
iating for them by launching heavy
attacks of it's own. Goebbels, Goer-
ing and Hitler have said otherwise,
limiting at secret weapons to come
and promising to put an end to our
bonbings in due time. But this sort
OF talk sounds like gibberish now,
and in their wrecked cities, the Ger
man people must laugh at it in Bit
Evening star., 1943-10-31
"WHO ARE THESE?"
By the Reu. Charles w. F. Smith,
Canon Chancellor, Washington Cathedral.

"Who are these?" asked the seer,
amazed at the sight Of the saints In
Heaven. And he was not looking at
those who have names with "St." In
front In the books or who wear each
halo in the stained-glass windows. He
was looking at people whose names ap-
peared nowhere, who, often as not, had
had nothing to wear on their heads;
men who Lad been officers in Rome, or
laborers in Corinth women who had
lived and died In the obscurity Of their
suburban kitchens. They were the peo-
pie to whom Paul addressed his letters
when he wrote, ITO the saints"
The great saints have days to them
selves. The rank and file of Christians
who have fought good tight" have
their day. Today, Halloween (All-Hal-
lows eve) Is the eve Of All Saints Day.
Who are these saints? They are the
sinners That is q paradox. but It Is
the Christian paradox with which the
church faces the world. Two men, Jesus
said, went to church to pray. One, quite
honestly, recounted to God his virtues.
The other said, God be merciful to me,
a sinner" This one was justified, Jesus
said. The other was good man, a use
full citizen, but he might not be saint,
because he trusted In his own achieve
ments. The other thought nothing of
his own efforts and put himself at Gods
mercy and at Gods disposal.
Why is it that in times of stress like
the present people flock to two centers-
places of amusement and places Of wor-
ship? Surely it is because the stress
has revealed deep dissatisfaction with
themselves and with life as they know it.
1t reveals state Of affairs hidden when
all seems to be well. Those who seek
amusement do so to escape the problem.
Those who seek the church do so to find
an answer. They believe the church has
the answer.
1t has. But, before an answer can
be found the problem of the self must
be faced in all its horror. The complete
inadequacy of man without God must be
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Capital SideIights
By VIII P. Kennedy.

Gus" GA. P.) Commit, Washington
and Wilkes-Barre attorney, recently
counsel Of the Bituminous Coal Com
mission, has been checking up on Elsa
Maxwen's column about Dr. Hugh
Cabot. He set her right about the
authorship Of the famous lines: Where
the Cabots speak only to Lowells, And
the Lowells speak only to God"
DR.. Cabot, at the age of II, was on
tour addressing doctors societies in
support Of group medicine, at the same
time that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
grandson of the famous Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. for years chairman Of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, and better known as the Scholar
in Politics" was making his report on a
mission with four other Senators to
personally inspect the far-fung Ameri-
can battlefields of this global war.
Gus" Commit comes from the coal
mines OF Pennsylvania, far distance
from the cultural Cabots and Lodges
OF what has been called an "Efete
East" He gained his style In the
Cabot-Lowell State of Massachusetts.
Forty-two years ago, in competition, he
won a prize offered by Mayor Duggan
Of Worcester, Mass, for the Alma
Mater Song" still sung with gusto by
alumni Of Holy Cross College.
That was shortly after Dr. John c.
Bossidy, fellow alumnus, had writ
ten:
And this is good old Boston,
The land of the bean and the cod
Where the Lowells speak to the Cabots,
And the Cabots speak only to God"
DR.. Bossidy's quatrain descriptive Of
the cosmos of the Brahmins of Beacon
Hill was widely quoted and more
widely paraphrased but was first voiced
at a Holy Cross alumni dinner. al
though for many years thereafter it
was attributed to the Rev. Samuel
Bushnell. Dr. Bossidy graduated from
college in 1881. after having won fame
on championship baseball teams-and
was for half century an authority on
the great national sport. He won even
greater fame in life as a physician,
surgeon and literateur. He completed
his medical course at Georgetown In
1889 and became a New England pio-
neer in ear eye, throat and nose prac-
tice. He was member of the Sioux
Indian Commission to secure the In
dianS' signatures to a treaty opening
II ,000 900 acres of land across the Mis-
souri, River and extending into the
Black Hills. Maj Gen. Crook and
Gov. Foster of Ohio served with him
on that commission. He was adopted
by the Sioux tribe and boasted that
he'd rather have that distinction than
"be leader of the Mayfower Pilgrims"
DR.. BoSsidy insisted that the Indian
Of the plain never lied, was true to his
marriage obligations and never violated
woman captive" Quite ironically.
he remarked: And we tried to civilize
them"
DR.. Bossidy knew personally DR..
Cabot, President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard, Senator David 1. Walsh and
the elder Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
and the late Senator George Frisbie
Hoar, Speaker and Senator Frederick
H. Gillett and other elder statesmen
OF "the land of the bean and the cod"
Evening star., 1943-10-31
New Commons

When the House of Commons was
demolished by German bomb on
May 10, 1941, The Star remarked
editorially that such things have
happened before" and that what
matters now is that the spirit of
liberty shall survive, and no one
particular roof is required to that
end"
Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
however, currently thinks the time
has come for reconstruction of the
traditional home of the lower branch
Of Parliament. After two and half
years of cogitation, he has proposed
the appointment of committee to
supervise rebuilding the chamber
exactly as Sir Charles Barry de-
signed it a century ago. Both ar
chitectural and political consider
ations, he argued, are involved in
his decision. With wisdom which
should be appreciated in America as
well as in Britain, he suggested the
principle that: eve shape the build
ings and afterward our buildings
shape us"
Nothing moderniStic, it is fair to
assume from that announcement,
would meet the need as Mr.. Churchill
visions it. Having served for more
than forty years in the late cham
ber," he explained, II naturally
would like to see it restored in all
essentials in its old form and that,
I am sure, will be the opinion of
great majority of members" The
Prime Minister then made it clear
that he favors meeting place COM
pletely faithful to the Barry formula
-"oblong and not semicircular." It
was his judgment, a trifle. face
tiously expressed, that the latter
device enables every individual or
every group to move around the
center, adopting various shades of
pink according as the weather
changes"
Mr.. Churchill continued: IT am a
convinced supporter of the party
system. I have seen many earnest
and ardent parliaments destroyed
by tho group system. The party
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Guiding Up to Big Dog
From the FL Dorado Times.

From the FL Dorado Times.
Reports from Spain in last weeks
dispatches indicate that representatives
of the Rumanian government are ne
gotiating with Allied representatives at
Ankara, Turkey, for an armistice. There
Is much more to the report than the
mere statement of fact, including dis
cussions of rumor, speculation, surmise
and downright old-fashioned gossip.
But standing out from the reports is
unmistakable evidence that the smaller
nations Of Europe are getting ready to
jump in order to land on the right side.
We don't blame them. 1t will be neces-
sary for their future existence that they
be pretty we'll lined up with the big dog
at the end OF hostilities. They anx-
iously ponder the realities in the light of
developments, knowing that it is ordi-
narily fatal to make a major mistake.
That they are now cuddling up to the
Allies is the strongest possible testimony
the Axis Is on the run
The smaller nations seldom err IN
their judgment Of form.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

realized. And then, at once, Gods quest
for us is realized and all His power to
mend our lives and make them whole.
1t becomes constant fact, constant
resource, presence which provides
power as long as we continue to confess
our sins.
Those who have, found this are the
saints. They are the blessed" whom
Jesus described. They wear no halo
but the ashes of repentance. They have
no title but sinners before God. They
make no boast but In the unexpected
grace OF God which, say they. they have
never deserved and never will
They live. They really live. Their
lives are not moored to this ambition,
or to that immediate satisfaction, but
they have set sail on an uncharted sea,
their haven beyond the boundaries OF
time. They know there Is no landfan,
but 1t Is Gods shore, and no wind to
buffet them, but 1t brings them nearer
home. They never lose their zest for
life because they never lose life. Their
names are not known but their deeds
dIC Pdlt VI bOClcty llllcSL IdDTlC, LOT
all good causes are theirs. They serve
disinterestedly, for God is the only re-
ward they know.
So once year we turn our thoughts
to the commonalty Of saints who have
finished their course in faith" With
them we have communion, here and
now.
How, may trouble us. We know so
little of that life "over there" But we
know one thing and 1t is of supreme
importance and of immediate value.
Whatever and wherever they be, they
are nearer God To be nearer God is
to worship and adore. We cannot speak
to them. or they to us. But together,
we and they, can worship the Father
and adore the Son in and by the Holy
Spirit. When we kneel, we kneel with
them. When we sing, we sing with
them. When we stand rapt at the vision
Of God, we stand shoulder to shoulder
with them. The church Is one. This
Is the communion Of saints.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
More Planes
From the Boston Herald.


Even If our monthly output of $500 or
5000 planes should be increased to
$4,000 or $4,000, there would be no
Wasteful surplusage, and our numerical
superiority would probably be less than
Hitler, Mussolini and TOTO had at the
beginning of hostilities. AS the area
which the Nazis and Japanese defend
becomes smaller they will probably
be able to utilize their strength more
effectively. Losing widely dispersed
outposts, they will gain something In
their ability to concentrate their re-
manning machines in the vital sections,
Our Army, Navy and Marine Corps lead
ers, our field commanders and the
directors Of production are therefore
urging higher schedule for the plane
plants and the hundreds Of accessory
vorkshop&
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Control and Responsibility

Senator Overton has demonstrated
his friendly interest in the District
and its problems and is a helpful
advocate of fair and sound fiscal
relationship between the National
Government and the local COM
munity. His fears, therefore. re-
garding the effect on this relation
ship of such legislation as the Nc
Carran bill deserve considered eX-
animation. Enactment of the Nc
.Carran or comparable bills, he be-
l1eves, might mean withdrawal of the
Federal payment toward District
appropriations.
The Senator does not make the
insulting mistake of suggesting that
the Federal payment-$6,000,00 900 in
an appropriation of over $55,0O0,OO0
lis made in lieu of the right to vote.
His premise is that Congress, under
the Constitution, exercises exclusive
legislative control over the District
and that the Federal payment, ad-
mlttedly inadequate now, is in par
tial recognition of that RESPONSE
bility. He fears that legislation such
as the McCarran bill, by impinging
on the exclusive legislative control
vested in Congress, would at least
tend to transfer that control and
therefore the responsibility, to the
local community. With political
control ostensibly shifted, members
OF Congress might argue that finan-
cial responsibility was shifted with it.
OF course, the McCarran bill does
not transfer political control over
the District to the people of the
District. But danger in this type
of legislation is that it does pretend
to transfer responsibility, while
withholding the power that should
go with it. Senator Overton has
every right to fear that the McCar-
ran bill would encourage Congress
to shirk all responsibility save that
which it chooses to reserve as it's
own, exercising it as and when it
wishes to do so.
The exclusive control by Congress
over the seat of Government prob
ably is wise and doubtless will be
retained. AS Senator Overton has
argued, this control carries with it
a Complementary financial obliga-
tion-Which is not fully met under
the unsystematic fiscal relationship
now existing. Representation in
Congress by the people of the Dis
: trict, their participation in the
choice of President and Vice Presi-
dent, would not disturb the ex-
elusive control of Congress, would
take away no power now possessed
by Congress, would strengthen
rather than weaken the co-partner-
ship of the Nation and the local
community in working for develop
ment Of the Federal City.
Home rule, as conceived in the
McCarran bill, is, on the other hand.
not genuine home rule. 1t contains
the danger referred to by Senator
Overton, without compensating
benefits. Genuine home rule for
Washington can begin only with the
Washingtonian's right to represen-
tatlon, with other Americans, in the
exclusively controlling and there
fore responsible Congress. This
city will always be the property of
the citizens of the United States.
But its residents should participate
as American citizens, in the control
= of that property.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Help 1t Break!
rom the Montreal Star.

From the Montreal Star.
Observers In Switzerland report that
the German home front may break
within few weeks. But 1t would be well
not to accept that statement as anything
more than q hope, for the military ex-
perts report Germany to be still strong
in both men and material. What Is TN
portant Is to relax none Of our efforts.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

terness. 1t is not surprising, In the
circumstances, that reports of def
ance, pessimism and a generally
deteriorating morale in the Reich
are daily growing both in number
and credibilitv.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

Poor relations are usually minor
problem that may be safely ignored
but poor relations with Russia now
would be Z bad business.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

A factory formerly making baby
carriages now makes pilot seats for
airplanes. This is the day of air
power, and the infantry will have to
keep rolling along as best it can.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
GROUP INSURANCE PLAN
FOR SHIPYARD MEN

Washington, y. G. ULNS).-TO en-
courage all shipyards To participate in
group life insurance programs for
their workers, the Maritime Commits
sion is prepared to approve plan of
group insurance for Shipyard ell
ployees.
This plan is to be known as the
Maritime Commission Standard Plan
Of COntributory Group Insurance, and
will be applicable to all Shipyards
working 100 per cent on Maritime
Commission contracts. Under it. work
ers earning less than S1.25 an hour
may obtain life insurance coverage of
81 600 and those earning i'll excess of
S1.25 per hour may obtain coverage
of $1,000. as we'll AS health and acci-
dent benefits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06

New York A remarkable demon
stratiOn Of labOrmanagement team
work was seen here when over 200
representatives Of shipbuilding, air
craft, tanks, food, steel, paper, and
toOl-and-die plants met at Moral Re-
Armament War Production Conference
to report increased cooperation and
production in T.. s. and Canadian war
industries
Fresh from the launching Of four
new fighting ships for the L. S. Navy,
II. Birchard Taylor, vice president Of
the Cramp ShipbuiIding Company in
Philadelphia, joined with Gordon Mac
Donald, 1041-1943 vice president OF
JAW Local 2l2 in Detoit, as the prin-
cipal speakers at the conference A
report by r. NJ. Hallward, president
of the st. Raymond Paper Company,
Montreal, and cables from workers and
employers in Britain emphasized the
international significance Of the event.
Confirm Truman Statement
The evidence presented at the gath
ering strongly confirmed the statement
of Senator Harry S. Truman at "a re-
cent press conference at which he
made public the record of the war
service of MIRA entitled The Fight
to Serve" Truman told the press:
The chief difficulty in our industrial
program is usually the human factor.
Suspicious, rivalries. apathy, greed lie
behind most of the bOttleneckS. Any
answer to these problems Is of first
Importance To the war effort
Describing the beneficial results of
the Cramp Joint Mana genent
Committee, already commended By
union and navy officials, Mr. Taylor
stressed the Importance Of eliminating
ingS. so that confidence and under
standing would dominate every con-
ference.
1T is one thing to have a Labor
Mana cement Committee" he said, 1T
is another thing to make it function
and to do the job it is supposed to do.
The MIRA workers without question
helped me To make a proper start.
We must draw the true battle line
of American industry. That line is not
between Labor and Management it is
between the constructive forces of
both Labor and Management together
on the one side, and the unpatriOtic
forces of selfiShneSS on the other"
Speaking for labor, Mr.. Macdonald,
member of the Joint Labor-Manage-
ment Committee of five Detroit war
plants, told of new solutions to prob
lens imperiling war production.
I'VE have come a long way in a
few short months, but Detroit is still
dynamite. A few weeks ago an ire
spOnsible group closed down IS shops.
Ours were in jeopardy also. But not
one hour was lost in vital production
in our plants. Our union and company
officials got together on new basis
of honesty and truth, and suspicion
was diSsipated."
Mr.. Hallward gave striking exam
pies Of production advances in the coal
mines, steel mills and shipyards Of
Nova Scotia, and directly attributed
them to the MIRA industrial relations
program recently undertaken there at
the request of unions and employers.
|
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06
Labor. Management Map War Drive
At MIRA Conference In New York

He quoted one mine manager as telling
the MIRA workers, Our thinking has
been the same for 30 years but you
have changed il over night" This was
promptly demonstrated when company
officials began to go down the mines
for the first time to see conditions and
problems first-hand.
Through the resulting union-manage-
ment cOoperatiOn in one mine the loss
in coal production caused by absentee
ism dropped from 1890 tons to $50 tons
over Il three months perod
British Workers Cable
British workers who cabled the Con-
ference included Fl. II. Elvin and Allan
n. Findlay, ex-chairman of the Trades
Union Council, and miners, steelwork-
ers, transport workers and officials.
They wired:
Your great drive national unity
teamwork in industry gives ever-fresh
inspiration to us here. With YOU we
work for that spirit of Moral Re-
Armament which aims all-Out produc-
ton combined with strength for battle
and fighting faith to build new world
after victory"
Other messages were from South
Wales miners and from Scottish long
shoremen. shipyard workers and city
officials. \ cable from Yorkshire textile
workers read
MIRA vital Industrial necessity.
Cuts absenteeism, irrespOnsibility, fric-
tion, disputes, waste. Increased dis
cipline, efficiency, output, earnings
proved in many Yorkshire mills. Con-
vinced MIRA will mobilize British and
American industrial forces for victory
and world reconstruction
Smashing Victory
Summing up the reports, Mr.. Taylor
said
The MIRA program has proved a
powerful force in building the spirit
of faith and sacrifice that founded our
nation and made it great. 1t has
proved a most effective agent in those
relations of industry that will make
or break our nation in the future.
Labor and Manage working to-
gether may demonstrate at the heart
of the nations life the qualities that
will make democracy work. You can
depend on it, there are enough people
in this country who are going to see
that it does work
The foundation of our whole ma
tional effort must be the building of a
spirit that can give Us not only q
smashing victory on the battlefields,
tory in our homes where privation will
first be felt, victory over selfish ambi-
| ton within our national life, and vic
| tory one day at the peace table"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-06

Cheese or plain biscuits placed or
and popped in the oven just befor,
serving makes hash almost glamol
dish.