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ARE BOTH AMERICANS?

| The House Judiciary Committee recently brought to light one of the most un-Amercan activities that the record of labor leaders in this country has been blackened with. In recommending the enactment of legislation which would send to prison labor leaders responsible for interference with interstate commerce the Committee disclosed that labor off cals have been stopping trucks at state boundaries because the drivers didn't belong to the union.
 In ordinary times, such practice seems to us an obnoxious thing, infringement upon the right of the individual to his living. But in war times when these trucks undoubtedly load cd with material vital to the effort such action is nothing more than plain sabotage.
 Yet the men-the labor leaders who order these actions-speak of being good Americans. Certainly they are not, and thank the Lord there still enough humble folk in the land who know what this war is all about and know how to act accordingly
 American labor still has not gotten down to the business of giving their a-out effort for the war Coal miners still strike. Workers entering Alaska, certainly not all of them, but too many of them come lip not for the purpose of rushing the defenses of the Territory. Rather, they come up to earn money. The rapid turnover, the southbound boats packed with workers who have gotten their fill of work in few short months, is evidence of this.
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Nazis will begin doing after this war is over. And that's why we need guys like you, guys who are not afraid to stand up and fight I know you've been discouraged. I know you've taken some tough set backs at the hands of the righte- GUS compromisers around the un- dersecretary of war.
 But if guys like you stay down in the legal trenches where the machine gun bullets are whizzine, instead of up in the judicial clouds then the sons of your two boys, now in the Navy, may not have to fight another war.
 All of the best, whatever you de- eide to do.
 DREW
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Compare these Americans with such as Mrs. Mary Taylor of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania. The devotion of humble folk for the land they love seldom expresses itself in spectacular headlines But that is the spirit that made this nation the spirit that will save it--and it does still exist.
 Mrs. Taylor sent in s20O0 check to her government
 She lives in a small home near Chester Heights, walks four miles daily to and from her job in a weaving mill. She could have used that money, could have used it in many ways to ease her 
 But she didn't
 Her husband, merchant seaman killed when his tanker torpedoed. The government sent her a check for 5,l5O provided by War Risk 
 First she paid her debts, then her taxes. Then she purchased War Bond for $750 She sent the remaining $2OOO to the government with note asking it to keep the money for her until the is over-"For know the government of country needs every possible help it get"
 The government returned the check That isn't important The fact that she offered it was what made Mrs. Taylor a real American She used the money, plus s25O she had set aside to buy three more s75o War Bonds
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HOROSCOPE "The st0rs incline
 bot do not conapeW
February, 2

This is rather a threatening day in planetary direction. Both the Army and the Navy may engage in decisive warfare.
 HEART AND HOME: Benefic as- poets rule women today. Demand for their services as auxiliaries in the armed forces will be insistent and industry will absorb hundreds before the end of the month. AL though many girls have needed the call from hospitals, the need for nurses will be serious in civil life as we'll as in military zones. Astrol- ogers who foretold the Second World War years ago urged women to study for the profession now so lacking in endorsements.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS. In this economic revolution which is hast ened by war many paradoxes will be apparent in the business world, the seers declare. Men of wealth will become poor and the poor will become wealthy. There is a sign read as presaging great profits through war emergencies which in- clude the handling of scrap collec- tions and other waste formerly of little value. Men past middle age will profit through callings previous ly deserted. Trades or vacations be- longing to youth, again will prove money -getters.
 NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Aspects conducive to revolt against auth ority will be powerful at this time. The revolutionary spirit will en- courage fifth column activities which will affect persons who hold responsible positions, it is prophe- sled. Among these will be young Americans who have been parlor radicals. Men and women not really loyal will seek offices in clubs and other organizations. Criticisms la beled as political opinions may be dangerous in coming weeks when national problems will multiply
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Transportation problems may be emphasized by indictment weather. There is sign as presaging delays and obstacles for the United Ma tions. Acts of extreme treachery will cause loss of men and machines. Stalin is to prove that he has ex- traordinary ability to understand the methods of his enemies. He should safeguard his health under this configuration Although even tual disgrace and violent end have been prophesied for Himmler, he will be able to add greatly to his record of horrible cruelty and in humanity.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good for tune in which setbacks are num- erous. Travel and strange asso- ciates are indicated @
 Children born on this day prob- ably will be cratic and independ- ent and devoted to the arts.
 Copyright, 1943)
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Br of Joe Borkin's "Germany's Mas ter Plan I hope every good Am erican reads it, for it tells what we have got to do after this war to prevent Germany from striking again.
 Borkin tells how, like saps, we let our alien property custodian and our big business firms after the last war gradually let Germany get hold on the patents vital to winning war. He tells how the Aluminium Corporation worked with the Nazis to corner magnesium production-until you broke it up He tells how Standard Oil of N. J worked with the Nazis to corner synthetic rubber production-until you exposed it.
 Borkin shows how Krupp's worked with General Electric on tungsten carbide, how Sterling Prod tets worked with I. G. Farben on chem- icals, how General Aniline worked with Nazis on dyes.
 But most important of all, Bor kin's book tells how the Nazi war lords, carefully. slowly built up the patent monopolies by which they planned to win the war, and how American. big business, woefully blind, greedy for dollars, played into their hands
 That's what the next set ot
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LOOK and LEARN sy c. GORDON

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BIG BUSINESS MOVES BACK

BIG bUSlNESo MONEc DACh
 Meanwhile, the real fact is that a good trust-buster like you is needed around here more than ever nov. And here's why:
 Roosevelt started out being the great champion of the underdog. All the big companies feared him, hated him, fought him. He was their mortal enemy. Then came the war, and they moved back like homing pigeons. They had the big lobbies in Washington already or ganized. They had the big hotel suites, gave the big parties to Army, Navy and defense commis- sion people They had the equip ment, the know-how and the ex- pefts.
 Furthermore, they sent their dol lar-a-year men down here, who brought in their friends. So pretty soon the war orders all began to flow in one groove.
 
 And pretty soon the country woke Up to find that during the first defense period, one-third of all, the orders went to exactly six companies A General Motors, Du Font, Bethlehem Steel, Curtiss- Wright, New York Shipbuiiding and Newport News Ship. Those six companies got contracts for around ten billions during the first flush of war preparation, and have been getting more ever since.
 Pretty soon also we woke up to the fact that with 100000 firms available for war jobs, at first 90 percent of these jobs went to only 600 firms. Six hundred out of &C., 600 is cutting the melon amons a very few; and the ratio has cor- tinued about that way ever since.
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BORED SUPREME COURT

That's why the country needs you around here, throwing your fists around and shouting in Bob Pattersorrs face. The people don't want you up oh a bench looking dignified and bored like Frank Murphy and Bill Douglas or Hugo Black. ts
 know othese gentlemen have been advising you to become judge. But that's just their in- feriority complex over being rele- gated to obscurity on the Supreme Court. They don't want to admit how bored they are They want company in their boredom
 also know that you've been thwarted lot lately. I know that Undersecretary of War Patterson and his generals have jumped
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

OFTEN MISUSED "The boys fought among another" fought WITH another"
 OFTEN IsPRONOUNCED DAY, both IT. principal third syllable
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HospIIAL NoIEs

James Jennings, admitted to St. Ann's Hospital Saturday for med ical treatment, was discharged this morning.
 Tony Koures, entered St. Ann's Hospital Saturday for medical care.
 Willie Peters and Gunnar John- son. at St. Ann's for medical atten- tion have been discharged.
 Surgical patient Pvt. George Brorn, left St. Ann's Hospital yes terday.
 Geraldine Clapp, Ermageon Lek- amos and Arthur Brown were pa tients admitted to the Government Hospital TT
 Jacquelyn Clark, infant daughter of MT. and Mrs. Albert Clark, was discharged from the Government Hospital yesterday.
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VUDlkN LIIuULIil ROBERTA LEE

should employer shows her she has made in typing letter?
 A. Merely T and offer to ewrite it. shake hands with a third?
 this the pardon of the whom you
 should removed from at the table? A. With orange spoon
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GERMANY'S NEXT WAR

However, discouraging as all this is, Thurman, did you ever cor slider this? The big battle is going to come after this war is over-the battle to get the country back where it was, and especially the battle to keep the peace.
 l have just read that new book
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do any fighting up in that rarefied atmosphere of an appeals court. People aren't going to read your court decisions, no matter how learned and sound they may be.
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Santo, the largest island of the New Hebrides, is 64 miles long and 32' miles wide. 's
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Washington Mefry- eo-Round

Continued from Page one)
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.--, ~ v \ l-s -1.s1s -I Is = . T HAPPY BIRTHDAY

VI. -r rH ------- fT FEBRUARY 1
 Al Monsen
 I. Goldstein
 L. E. Tucker Nils K. Ludvickson Mrs. David Brown
 Sally Hope Mrs. O. G. Culberhouse pr. A. w. Stewart Lynne Peterson
Evening star., 1943-08-05

arbitrary an d Bernard NJ. Barueh
distinctly sacrificial requirements of
Government. AS If by common con-
sent, every war administration
adopted the policy of decentraliza-
ton, reliance on unofficial civilian
cooperation, public education as to
necessity and-to put it frankly
universal and highly organized
propaganda.
Thus the draft-inStead of being
enforced by soldiers carrying bay
onets as in the Civil War-Was
turned over to small boards of local
civilians who were given almost
unlimited and final authority.
Largely they served without COM
pensation and at great sacrifice.
Much was made of the service of
these men and conscription took on
the aspect of great spontaneous
levee en- masse. But there was q
provision in the Selective Service
Act under which, if any member of
these draft boards had refused that
duty, he could have been sent to
jail Many men who failed to reg
lister did 60 to jail.
Lever Act Had Teeth.
Thus the Food Administrator
actually absorbed into its organ
ization not only bakers, millers,
dealers and elevator companies-but
also thousands and thousands of
housewives. But in the act under
which this was done there were
many penal and criminal provisions
to every one of the hundreds of
thousands of licensees under that
act of being put out of business on
a moments notice by the arbitrary
act of the Administration and of
being sent to Jail if he did not stay
out of business.
Thus, also, as I have repeatedly
explained, industries were called
into consultation whenever the War
Industries Board fixed a price and,
while we had no penal statute. we
had plenty of threat to enforce
what We thought was just.
In other words, 1t was an enlight-
ened policy of administration of
those laws-not an absence OF teeth
in their jaws-which obtained an
unusual degree of popular Coop
Grafton for them. I see no reason
to suppose that the suggestion now
made would be administered in any
less sensible manner.
No industry is going to complain
of our effort to protect it from
panic market. If any industry is
hurt, the way to adjustment is wide
open and adjustment would pro-
ceed on exactly the round-table
conference" method invented by
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penal provisions. The President was
authorized to prescribe reasonable
charges and the Presidents deter
mination of such charges was made
prima facie evidence in any prose-
cution. 1t was also a crime for any
food company doing more than
100000 worth OF business even to
continue in business without a IL
cense, and the Food Administration
conditioned these licenses on such
considerations as it saw fit.
l bore the heat and burden of
nearly every one of the principal
price determinations except food,
and I am speaking from intense ex-
perience when l say that in most
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recalcitrant or unwilling subscrib-
ers in the event of default.
So much has been said here about
price fixing by agreement, or spon-
taneous cooperation, that I think
it is necessary to say at this point
that there was no such thing. gen.
orally speaking, as price-fixing by
agreement in any such sense as wit
neSses seem to have derived from
reading and talks with others on
this subject. Agreement there was
in the sense of acceptance of a Fed
eral price determination by a few
leaders in each industry. and in
many of our conferences the Gov
ernment had the enthusiastic sup
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cases those prices, while eventually
accepted Fundamentally. were not
unconstrained free-will offerings Of
all, by any manner of means. We
used good many euphemisms dur
Ing the war for the sake OF national
morale, and this one Of price fixing
by agreement" is a good deal like
calling conscription "selective serv-
ice" and referring to registrants for
the draft as mass volunteers" Let
us make no mistake about it.: We
fixed prices with the aid of poten-
tial Federal compulsion and we
could not have obtained unanimous
compliance otherwise.
released by the Bell Syndicate, fnc1
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the various war administrations in
the World War. 1t goes without
saying that the agency responsible
for production and industrial ef-
ficiency is not being set up to op-
press industry.
Agrees With Baker.
7 would be the last person in the
United States to depreciate the
Spontaneity of whole e-hearted CO.
operation and self-sacrifice exhibit
ed by American business during the
war That and that alone made
my work possible. I agree with Mr.
Bakers excellent statement: The
mobilization of America for partici-
patton in the World War is the most
outstanding industrial achievement
that has been accomplished in the
history of mankind. = May I add
to that by saying so spontaneously. so
cheerfullv, and so enthusiastically.
Yet I venture to think that there
is not one of those industrial lead
ers who would not heartily agree
with me in saying: First. that it
would be impossible to prevent gen.
eral imitation by any Nationwide
convention as to price, second, that
no one-no matter how generous
could agree to restrict his own price
unless all other prices affecting him
were restricted, or unless his price
was already so high that his profits
were exorbitant. and finally, that
substantial price reductions by
agreement (even from highly profit
able peaks could not be secured un-
less those willing to agree. through
-mindedness, knew that the
Government body with whom they
were dealing had some sanctions
some control with actual teeth, or
some disciplinary power to apply to
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port OF some producers and. in som.
conferences, the unanimous support
OF all, but, as practical matter
there was no alternative to such
acceptance and there was a distinct
threat of effective reprisal in case
of refusal.
Euphemisms Used.
Reference has also been made to
food administration methods, with
perhaps a suggestion that hereafter
reliance was there placed on spon-
taneous cooperation. Every one
knows the skill with which that
administration nodded public opin-
ion, but the Lever Act, under which
it was set up, fairly bristled with
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Threat of CompuIsion Needed
In War Rules, Buruch Insists

This is the ninth OF a series
OF articles compiled from Bernard
M. Baruch'S 'Americdn Industry
in War rritten in 1881 and re-
published IN part noW because Of
the applicability OF some OF its
basic principles to the present
situation In this article Mr..
Baruch. adviser TO War Mobai-
cation Director ByrncS, discusses
control By leadership.
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liking a II q all
other war ia SKIS
is not that there
was not COM
pulsion behind
the duty i'm
posed on citi-
zenS.
They are re-
ferring to the
universal con-
fdence that was
placed by Gov
ernment in the
people t h e M
selves to enforce
the more or less
=
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BY BERNARD NJ. BARUCH.

What these witnesses are really
referring to when they talk about
spontaniety and cooperation in
general public acceptance of price
Evening star., 1943-12-29

(The tolloUing story, distrib-
uted by the Associated Press, ,Uas
1Dritten by Tech. Sergt. Samuel
Sha1er OF Washington, a Marine
Corps combat correspondent)
TARAWA ATOLL, Gilbert Islands
(Delayed The exploits of the
tanks are among the most thrilling
chapters in the bloody battle for
Tarawa and to them must go much
of the credit for a successful fight
that never will be forgotten by
Americans.
This is the story of four of those
tanks-China Gal. Cecilia. Com
mando and Colorado-and their
commanding officer, Marine 1st 1t
Edward L. Bale, jr., of Dallas, Tex
Early in the invasion, 1t. Bale
sent six of his tanks into one Sec
tor of the beach. These tanks had
to cross several hundred yards of
reef and water under heavy fire.
Only two, Cecilia and Commando
made it ashore that morning.
There wasn't much we could
see," said 1t. Bale. "It was dark
from the dust and smoke. Two of
my men volunteered to get out and
lead us on foot, spotting the targets
for us. God, what CUTS they had
to walk into that hell, in front of
tanks and in front of infantry. And
both were killed.
Tank Gun Hit Suuarcly
AT one point we were being fired
on by an antiboat gun. A Jap tank
fired at us and his shell lodged
right in our barrel. 1t lit up the
inside of the Cecilia like a Christ
mas tree"
The Cecilia was pulled back and
used for beach security that night.
Though its gun was ruined, the
turret reverse mechanism shot and
the clutches damaged, it went into
action in the morning, firing its
machine gun at pillboxes. Finally
it ran into a hole and was out of
action for good.
Commando went on alone across
the island destroying two fve-inch
antiboat guns and five pillboxes
and sustaining l8 hits. But 1t was
knocked out finally.
That night" 1t Bale continued,
I'VE just dug in hoping we could
get a tank into action in the morn
ing.
Next morning the crew of China
Gal got it on the beach and in
running shape.
Blasted Jap Pillboxes.
1--WE jumped off toward the air.
field and blasted every pillbox for
600 yards. When we'd see the Japs
running out of one emplacement
we'd hold our fire until they ran
into another pillbox and then we'd
give it hell. Often marines from
the infantry outfit would jump up
on the top of the tanks to help us
spot targets.
AT daybreak." the lieutenant con-
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tinued, 1--WE got more ammunition
for China Gal. Three tanks from
another outfit joined us and we
moved up the southern beach with
an infantry battalion behind us
This was to be the deciding phase
OF the battle of Tarawa. We were
joined by the Colorado"
At dawn, China Gal and Colorado
went up and put an end to the
counterattack which the companies
had STAYED off so bravely all night
long. Then, with eight other tanks
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Hall at pm. next Tuesday, J. r.
Magness, president of the Bureau
of Plant Industry, has announced.
Illustrated talks on the flora of
North Carolina will be given by DR..
Rodgers McVaugh and DR.. D. s.
Carroll, both of the Bureau of Plant
Industry.
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behind them, the two went right on
to the end of the island where the
battle ended, In the last pillbox
they knocked out, the lieutenant
counted 10 dead Japs.
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There is no such thing as blood
less victory. Yours, too, Is needed
by Blood Donor Center. Call Dis
trict $500 to make an engagement.
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Botanical Society
To Meet Next Tuesdoy

The Botanical Society of Wash
ington will hold its monthly meet
ing in the Cosmos Club Assembly
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RALEIGH BRINGS UNUSUAL SAVINGS ON
TIMELY. DESIRABLE WINTER FASHIONS
GREATLY REDUCED FROM REGULAR STOCK
BECAUSE OF INCOMPLETE SIZE SELECTION.
No returns exchanges. no nppropas No mall
phone c. o. d. orders. All sales final. Limited
quantities. All items subject prior sale.
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From our tomous Jr Shop, One ond two
piece royon crepes, royon moteosses, royon
foile, royon eobordine, royon toffetos
Block or high coIors, broken sizes 9 TO IS.
fel $3.50 to $22.75 JR. Dresses One
ond two-pece royon orepes, wool mixtures,
royon n'oteosse, block or black with color
Broken sizes 9 to Sl2.88
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Exploits Of 4 Tanks
One Of Most Dramatic
Chapters on Tarawa

(The tolloDing story. distrib-
uted by the Associated Press, ,Uas
ioritten by Tech. Sergt. Samuel
Sha6er OF Washington, Marine
Corps combat correspondent
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RALEIGH MILLINERY
Greatly ~ o.
Reduced to 4.

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softly tailored styles Beautiful colors
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