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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

If you have a Victory Gar
den, make it a one-hundred per-
cent victory project by doing
your garden work safely. The
Greater Cleveland Safety Coun-
Gil warns that painful injuries
can be caused by hand plows,
spades, rakes and hoes. Handle
these implements with caution.
Always turn sharp points and
edges downward, if you lay the
tools on the ground beside you.
And when they're not in use.
keep all garden tools put away
where they won't be stumbled
over. You can't produce Food
for Freedom if you're in the
hospital.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
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Recognition for Civilians

James NJ. Lands, National
Civilian Defense Director, in
formed Roger R. Clouse, Act
ing OCD Regional Director at
Cleveland, that Civilians will
now have the opportunity to
earn the right to wear an Off
cial service bar approved by
the government. 1t will be SINH
lar to the campaign bars of the
armed services, and will be CIV
en- to Civilian Defense volun-
teers with 500 or more hours of
service wherever Defense Coun-
ellis adopt the plan. Six distinc-
tive bars have been authorized,
ranging from 500 to 5000 hours
of service.
"This is simply a merited
recognition of the Importance
of the civilians role in this
war;" Director Lands said.
"Never before has the issue of
victory depended so much upon
civilian effort. It is fitting that
we recognize those who, though
they cannot man a gun or WELD
a bayonet, recognize their re-
sponsibility as civilians and are
in this war with all they have
to give"
All Civilian Defense volun-
teers may qualify for the
awards-members of the Citi-
zens Defense Corps, the Citi-
zens Service Corps, Forest Fire
Fighters Service, and Civilian
Evacuation Service. Time spent
in training prior to enrolment,
in practice exercises, in attend
ing meetings and in activities
authorized by local Defense
Councils will be counted as
hours of service.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

to independence, to their terri.
.torial integrity and to the un.
impeded opportunity for self
government must be respected
by their more powerful neigh.
bors.
All this leads up to the con.
clusion that the organization OF
the peace must be the common
work Of all the nations which
are members of the powerful
coalition against aggression. II
is obvious that the United
States, Great Britain, the So.
Wet Union and China will as
sumo a larger share Of respon-
sibilities on account Of their
size, wealth, man power and
natural resources. When il
comes for instance to pooling
strategic bases for the mainte.
nance Of general security,
United States and Great Bri.
tain with her dominions will
play q decisive role for the sim.
pie reason that these bases are
in their physical possession.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

justice are innocent. The Itali-
ans extort from them by Bird
degree methods admission Of
guilt for acts which they have
never committed. On the basis
of such admissions they are
afterwards sentenced to death
or Jail. For example, after the
bridge of Preserje was demolish-
ed, 16 people were executed,
many were sentenced to death,
many to life Imprisonment, 9TH
ers to many years of hard Ia
Dor. Of SO that were accused,
a few were "pardoned into con-
finement" in Italy. All SO were
arraigned on the false charges
of two impoverished German
castle owners with criminal
records named Lichtenberg.
After the trial, both were
rewarded with estates in Italy.
D~ISPOSSESSION AND FORC-
ED EMIGRATION
The Germans want to create
on the southeastern boundary
of the Great German Reich a
living bulwark of defensive
peasantry Qebendigar Wahl
wehrhaften Bauerthums). The
new province (March) shall
give Germandom protection on
the one one hand, and serve as
an outlet for further aggrand-
izement on the other. The Ger.
mans maintain the view that
new lands are won not only by
the sword but that they must
also come under the German
pillow, if they are to become
truly German. For the Ger
manization of a new land, it is
therefore necessary that it be
settled by the German peasant
as a guarantee to future Ger
man generations.
Since in a country as thickly
populated as Slovenia there art
no empty spaces, the German.
resorted to forced emigration
of the peasants. This explain.
why this emigration did not af'
feet merely the professiona
class engineers, lawyers
clergymen, physicians, drug
,lgists, merchants, teachers
clerks, etc. as well as othel
leading classes), but also tn
'ientire peasant class. This emf
gration is described by the Ger
mans as a great "national-pol
itical purging action"
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
The Shopping :
Wolfess

Hello everyone! Inns Is your
new reporter, who spied quite a
few things over the weekend.
Kunchik's Hall certainly was
crowded last Saturday night.
Carnations were distributed to
the Mothers who attended the
affair.
Sunday night at the SWH the
Red Cross Dance was a very
successful event. The music was
furnished by the following Dr.
chestras: Zalokar's, Pecon's,
Vadnal's and Strukel's -. Did
you notice Vicky's sister get
ting along with all the fellows?
Does she take after Vicky? -.
Esther Nagode wearing a beau
tiful corsage from her beau,
Steve Valencia -. Eleanor and
Vera enjoying themselves all
evening! Did you go straight
home, girls? -. Who was Pat
Miller waiting for when every
one was going home? 49,. Bob
Skufca getting around lately !!
Who is she, Bob? -. Dixie is
like a butterfly who flies from
flower to flower Did you
notice Wally Lunka? -. Flea
nor Crnkovic not attending the
Red Cross Dance! But it seems
that Joe Godec was there!
Okie's sister, Olga, receiving a
beautiful locket from Bill down
Miss. -. Kay keeping Rudy
Dolanc busy all evening
Mike Jajcic, a bit bashful, but
if he sticks around with the
gang it won't be long! -. Joe
Barbish still looking for a
girl. There are a lot of pebbles
on the beach, Joe, so take your
time! -. Big Lou got all
dressed up for Saturday night !
You looked sharp, Lou! .. .
We certainly are going to miss
Steve, who is going back to
Penna. to settle down for a
while. Good luck, Steve! .
Margie thinking about Joe Bar
DO! ... Mickey Kastelic, trying
to get rid of a certain some
body -. Jacob Frank always
teasing Olga about what she
does at the shop! Does Jake do
anything? Kay Matuck
wanting to go to Five Points to
see Bobby Jones Wilma
Glazer wanting to know who
Joe Zele is and when he is 60
ing to move across the street !
-. Violet Vogrin claiming that
she can't enjoy herself at the
S.W.H. because Lu Budnar is
in the Army! -. Johnny Rozel
wearing bow tie and draped
pants! What happened?
Did you hear about Jennie
and the Navy? Lii and
: Bepsi dancing together all eve
ming! They certainly can pivot
i. lark still holding on to
Vicky even though there are a
7 lot of wolves around! -. Rich
| Skufca having many new inter.
ests! Dorothy Skittle en-.
.joying herself with Eddie Mer.
var! -.
Until next week, I remain.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
When to Use Your Ro+ion Coupons

PROGRESSED FooDs-Blue stamps 6, H and J good through
May 81. /.
MEATS, CHEESE, BUTTER. FATS, CANNED FIsH-Red
stamps E, F and G good now. Red stamp H becomes valid Sunday.
j becomes valid May %. All will expire May 81.
CoFFEE-stamp % good for one pound through May 80.
sUGAR-stamp 10 good for five pounds through May 81.
SHoEs-stamp II good for one pair through June Is.
GAsOLINE-No. 5 stamps in A book good through May 81. B
and G stamps good as noted on book.
TIRES-Inspections due: "A book vehicles by Sept. 80; BIS by
June 80; Cs by May 81; commercial vehicles every 60 days or
5000 miles, whichever is first.
FUEL. oIL-coupon s good for II gallons. but must last until
Sept. 80 for both heat and hot water. Save ration sheet stubs for
- registration next heating season. ~
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
BICYCLE LIGHTS

Bicycle tail lights are doing a
war job on the battlefront,
where they are frequently at
.tached to parachutes used in
dropping supplies to our para
troopers at night. But bicycle
lights are also more important
than ever right here at home.
The Greater Cleveland Safety
Council says the lack Of a night
light is one Of the most fire.
quent contributory causes of
traffic accidents involving BIZ
cycles.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
Kittens Korner

Well chicks, here I am on
the beam again with all the
latest hoy-maloy.
Noticed vampire enjoying
herself more than ever before
-. Joe Preskar sitting on the
bench most of the evening -. ;.
Elsie Hand and Frank F. also
spending a good part of their
evening on the bench -. Christy
De Petit and Pat Milly going
to town jitterbugging. Christy
says ut just goes to show va
even a chubby person can
dance" Lillian Strazisar,
Esther Nagode, Beps Tibyash
and Steve Valencia keeping to-
gether all evening Euclid
Central boys coming to the
dances by the dozens weekly.
Keep it up, boys, we enjoy good
company! 80. Bill Kovatch
and boyfriend Rudy still cut
ting in on two girls -. Vicky
Pasquilli suddenly getting a
Lighthouse light" in her eye
after a little talk with Zarko
-. What happened to Wally
Lunka? First time you stayed
on the bench long. Couldn't you
stand up? That wind was ter
rible, wasn't it, Wally? .
What kept Norma away? =. .
Edna and Ethyl BRO showing
up the latter part of the eve
ming with boyfriends AL and
Eddie. Later went to the Beach
-. Violet Vogrin and "Clem"
banging each other around but
loving every Smack! Such is
life! Have you taken your
sailor boys engagement ring,
Jennie? -. Margaret Herman
teaching b.f. Cornelius Ander-
son to polka -. What happened
Al Strukel and Mary Kapel
not doing much dancing? =. .
Dorothy Young in a daze all
evening. How's sailor boy Hen
ry Skedel coming along? -. .
Euclid Beach Rink crowded as
usual.
"Pinky' handing out his tele-
phone number to a certain
"blonde," and then going
around in a daze because she
didn't have one -. Marine Bob
Jackie making a proposal to
Kathleen. did you acceptD.. -.
"Whitey" being stopped twice
for speeding on the rink. Gsn't
he a frisky little fellow?) -.
Bob Sporcic still true to Yo-
landa. What do you say, Bob,
give us a break! AL Burgess al
ways skating with his unmen-
tionable honey! Why do | have
to keep it a secret, Al? .
What happened to Florence
Medves? Too bad the pigtails
didn't stay in for you, Flo .
Carl Schneider's excuse for not
arriving-"my skates suddenly
broke" Five sailors and
two soldiers, we'll the more the
merrier. More to wolf" with,
Hey! Hey!
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
Fighting J~ugoslavia
The Struggle of the Slovenes
Ill., :. By BORIS FURLAN,
Professor Of Political Philosophy at the University of Ljub

Professor of Political Philosophy at I
In the court room there were
among the discriminating exhi-
bits $50 kilograms of nitro
glycerine, 40 kilograms of dyna-
mite, 149 hand grenades, 3
heavy mitrailleuse guns (Maus-
err 2 Fiat machine-guns, IS re-
volvers, a, considerable number
of rifles, IS small incendiary
bombs and a large quantity of
ammunition.
The indictment stated that at
the demolition of one powder
plant alone there were IS dead.
The total number of dead at all
attacks was PA and 1900
wounded. 80
Of the 60 indicted, the Itali-
ans sentenced 9 Slovenes to
death and executed S of them,
the other 4 were committed to
80 years of hard labor; % of
them received 30-year sentences
1 a 24-year sentence, 3 for 16
years, 6 for IL years., Z for
shorter periods, 4 of them were
freed.
At this trial DR.. Lavo Ger
melj, the author of the book
Life and Death-Struggle of a
National Minority" which we
have already mentioned, was
sentenced to death. His SEN
tence and that of three others
was committed to 80 years i'm
prisonment.
In the Ljubljana Province the
military tribunal of the second
army is functioning. The trials
before this court are noted for
the great number of persons
arraigned, as is the case for the
Special Tribunal in Rome. UI
to now, the highest number OF
court-marshalled in Ljubljana
at the same trial has been 80
The number of death sentences
pronounced was 100, the total
of time sentences numbers thou.
sands of years.
Here, just as in the Specia
Court, every trial is motivatee
by the explanation. that the &C
cused wanted to change "th'
political and social order of tn
State" If this motivation i!
justifiable in Italy, at leas'
from a former legal viewpoint
since the annexation of the Ju
liam March was internationally
recognized, on the territory o:
Yugoslavia, however, which wal
occupied by armed force ane
till now subject to internationa
military law, it is an inter
national legal crime withou
parallel. The political status O
Yugoslavs can not be changes
iby an arbitrary act of Italy
However, the Italians annexe'
the occupied territory and de
manded of former Yugoslav'
1.-THE loyalty Of new Italian citi
zens. In Kranj, occupied by tn
Germans, some 10 miles iron
Ljubljana, Milorad Stosic wa
hanged being a "Slovene swim
who betrayed the German
state" In Ljubljana the Slo
venes betray their Italian ia
therland," and are executed
and some 200 miles north the,
are shot for "betraying" thei
Hungarian homeland"
Many underground report
emphasize that Q large humble
of the victims Of the Italia,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

Vernet Withdm, ~, of ElizG-
beth, N. j., is back at the fac
tory making shirts. Wanting
Work soith more action, Vernet
applied for a job at a pretzel
factory Where the aDork MOULD
be more intricate. Said the U.
s.: "Yon are On essential Work-
.er II this factory; back yos go"
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

It takes only one car, or one
pedestrian-plus one little act
of carelessness to make a seri-
GUS accident. The Greater Gle
veland Safety Council urges
both pedestrians and motorists
to be extra c-areful-wartime
careful-to prevent accidents
and save manpower for war
power.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
NOT EYPENDABLE

War Workers.! You are not
expendable! You and your
work are needed for the victory
that you and your family need.
The Greater Cleveland Safety
Council urges war workers to
do all work safely. If you're not
absolutely sure of the safe way,
ask your forman. Keep work
ing to win.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

Mrs. Charles Thomas of jas
per, No., showm above, Was left
all alone to manage their farm,
When her husband suffered q
serious accident. Telephoming
her neighbor for help, Mrs.
Thomas Uos amazed When q
half dozen meighbors arrived
aoithin a half hour to give her
help, proving again that the
Good Neighbor" policy a0orks
at home as WeH as abroad.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17

-
Yet it should not be over
looked that the big powers need
the small nations both for win
ming the war and for winning
the peace. The direct military
contribution by the small ma
lions to the total war efforts is
considerable. Moreover the re-
sistance to the Nazi occupation
is a factor to be considered in
! the global allied strategy. If
Hitler was able to win over the
small nations Of Europe to his
side, he would create a united
and powerful Europe which
would be impossible for the
United Nations to reconquer. It
is the resistance of the invaded
small countries which frus-
trates all such attempts and
which will have a great bearing
on the final outcome of the
war.
Some people are skeptical Of
any agreements concerning post
war problems on the ground
that future conditions cannot
be envisioned now. We should
not forget, however, that these
conditions will largely be such
as we create them during the,
war through our action or in &C
ton. We should develop the ex-
listing war agreements into eff
fective instruments Of postwar
collaboration. The following
steps might be undertaken to
that effect: .
1. The Atlantic Charter, as
the most comprehensive and
generally accepted statement of
principles should be made into
a statement of concrete policies.
Problems which concern the
United Nations to the exclusion
of the enemy countries should
be settled before the end of the
war so that the victors can Of
fer a united front not only in
the military sense but also Dip
lomatically.
2. For that purpose the Dec
-ilaration of the United Nations
which at present is only a war
alliance for the duration should
be made into a diplomatic al
lance to run for a long period,
at least for twenty years.
3. The Anglo-Soviet Treaty
, is limited to two belligerents.
1t should be extended. so as to
embrace the largest possible
, number of the United Nations.
E. a. The Lease-Lend program
2 is also limited both in terms Of
times and scope. 1t should be
extended, with such modifica-
tons as may be found neces-
e sary, so as to be operative after
the war, preferably in oonjunc-
8 ton with the reciprocal trade
treaties program.
e 5. It is most unlikely that
f the Soviet Union would be a
| party to any agreement which
/ would leave Europe filled with
quislings and arch-appeasers.
The Twentieth century has no
room for justification for some
new edition Of the repressive
and Sitting Holy Alliance of
the 10Th century. The political
; agreements among the United
n Nations should therefore obvi-
ate any tendencies to use the
t cooling-off period for the re-
instatement of reactionary re-
gimes of the past.
ii -
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-05-17
WORLD PEACEWAYs FORUM

The World Peaceways Inc.
conducted a forum on the sub
ject SHOULD the Big Four Or
ganize the Peace?" On Sunday,
March FL, 1943 the following
address was given on this sub
ject over radio station WQXR
by DR.. Joseph Hano, Czechoslo-
yak author, lecturer at the
Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Yale University,
and author of Tornado Across
Eastern Europe"
If the question implies the or
ganization of the peace by the
Big Four to the exclusion Of the
twenty-seven smaller United
Nations, the answer is in the
negative. But / do not believe
that the responsible leaders of
the great powers entertain any
such idea or tendency. 1t is true,
and historical records prove it,
that for several centuries past,
it was the policy Of the major
powers to create international
stability on the basis of the So
called balance of power. The
balance of power was usually
effected at the expense of the
small nations. Poland was par
titioned four times as the VIC
tim of such a policy. In 1888
Chamberlain and Daladier at
tempted to reconcile the Ger
man lust for Czechoslovak ter
ritory with the desire for peace
through working out an equili-
brium Of power between the
Axis and the democracies. The
attempt ended in a disaster.
The balance Of power as prac-
ticed by the big nations meant
always a divided power, a di-
vided authority, two opposing
forces poised against one an
other. AS soon as the balance
shifted too much in one direc.
ton, war inevitably followed,
What, we are fighting for today
is to do away with this divided
authority, and to establish a
united, collective preponder.
ance of power, military, econ,
omic and moral which would
preclude division of nations in.
to rival groups.
J, This collective authority sup
ported by collective power
should be organized by the
United Nations working in uni
son. The Atlantic Charter does
not make any distinction be
tween the big and the small ma
tons. To a large extent this
distinction has become obsolete
Even the largest nations ar
, unable to defend themselve.
single-handed. Indeed, we can
not secure peace within any
smaller unit than the whole
world combined.
i The Atlantic Charter lay.
down the principle that thu
right of all peoples should b.
respected to choose the form o:
their government; that al
states, great or small, shoult
enjoy access, on equal terms
; to the trade and the raw materi
, ais of the world; and after tn
destruction of the Nazi tyran
ny a peace should be estab
lished which would afford t.
all nations the means of dwell
ing in safety within their owl
2 boundaries. In April 1910
President Roosevelt stated tina
: if civilization was to survive
: the rights of the small nation
to independence, to their terri
torial integrity and to the un
innnadod onnOrfunitv for Golf
, 1943-07-09

meats, butter and coffee would
be scrapped. The government
would be breaking faith with the
workers and consumers to whom
it solemnly promised in the Sta
Utilization Act that the cost of 1iv-
ing would be stabilized at Sep
tember Is, 1912, levels.
AS if the anti-subsidy amend
ment were not enough to kill the
cost of living program, another
amendment was inserted that price
policies and price ceilings must be
set only by persons with five
years business experience in the
particular commodity for which
the price policy or ceiling is to
apply. W. had imagined that
price control was designed to
protect the consumer from price
rises and profiteering by business.
The Republicans say, however,
that price and rent control must
be administered by the profiteers
and by the spectators. The late
lamented Chamberlain tried that
plan in England during the first
year of the war, with disastrous
consequences for England and for
the world.
Another Republican amendment
cuts out standards and grade
labelling in price control. This
amendment is equivalent to
smashing the grocers' scales so
that the customer would have no
way of knowing how much he is
getting for the money he is asked
to hand over. According to the
Republicans, consumers have no
rights at all that merchants must
respect.
Well, there is an old proverb
which the Republicans might well
ponder: Those whom the Gods
would destroy, they first make
mad!
, 1943-07-09
New Boss Tries
Hitler Tactics On
Gun Plant Girls
BY RUTH TUCKER
UE Local SOL

AS negotiations between Local
S01 and the Dayton Frigidaire
management on equal pay for
women draw to a close, super
vision at Plant Three took a step
calculated to create utter con-
fusion and chaos among women
workers here. Failing in their at
tempts to beat the unions de-
mands for equal pay by stalling
negotiations on the issue since last
October, they have resorted to the
most despicable form of express
sion hiring a known informer
to spy on employees.
Such practices r common in
factories of Nazi-occupied Europe,
but it is almost unbelievable to
the women war workers of Plant
Three, that at the very moment
when they are giving their best
efforts to win this war against
Fascisrn, they should be subjected
to the same indignities and ter
roristic discipline against which
we are fighting. This attempt to
make slave girls out of demo-
cratic and union-minded women
is so completely ludicrous that
the supervisor" in question has
made q laughingstock of herself
before all Plant Three workers,
men and women alike.
, 1943-07-09
Republicans Sabotage oPA
BY the CLIO Cost of Living Committee

Last week the Republicans in the House of Representatives gave
to the country and to the world a remarkable exhibition of sabotage
on the home front. Taking advantage of large scale Democratic alb
senteeisn, a S well is of the active assistance of a sprnk1ng of re-
dictionary Democrats, they gummed UP the appropriation for the
Office of Price Administration with restrictions and limitations which
would compel the agency to function IS a price raising, initiation
creating administration. If they had been paid by Hitler or Hirohito-
al of course they were not-they could not have done a better job of
, 1943-07-09

aiding the enemy.
Fortunately, the bill has still to
pass the senate. Labor and con-
sumer pressure, as well as the
intelligent patriotism of Republic
can and Democratic senators alike,
can still undo most of the sabo-
tage. But labor and consumer
groups will have to act fast in
presenting their viewpoints to the
senate and in putting pressure on
the conference committee (Which
will have to be appointed after
the senate gets through with the
billy to see to it that a decent
appropriation bill is finally en-
acted by both houses.