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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
THE MESSENGER BOYS

Three of the "public" members of
the National War Labor Board
Wayne Morse excepted) got cold feet
last April, although the weather was
warming up. They ran to the White
House for advice and counsel on the
treatment of chilblains resulting from
exposure to the coal miners wage de-
mands.
Instead of advice and counsel, they
got orders from Jimmy Byrnes and
his successor as Economic Stabiliza-
tion Director, Fred Vinson. They have
been getting orders and taking them
on key wage decisions ever since. In
stead of acting on their own judg-
ment, they have been serving as mes
senger boys.
Well, they got treated as messenger
boys in the final decision in the mine
workers case. The President went
over the WLB's head and authorized
Secretary of the Interior Ickes to ne
gotiate contract with the union. He
did. In so doing, he overrode the
WLB's own decision in the case and
broke its first rule against dealing
with union while a, strike was in
progress.
The Ickes contract was bitter pill
for the messenger boys to swallow.
They sputtered all over the lot. Hav-
ing relegated themselves to the role
of messenger boys, they couldn't take
out their anger publicly against the
White House or Ickes. So they took a
sock at labor-the unions which have
been complying fully with the no
strike policy and which have been get
ting more "bitter" than sweet in
WLB decisions.
All of which goes to prove that you
can't expect craftsmanship from mes
senger boys.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
STERILIZATION INVISIBLE

Let's take look at this "stabiliza-
ton program.
1t was first announced by President
Roosevelt on April %, 1912 The
President proposed a seven point pro-
gram. This program he said was Sin
divisible." In other words, he insisted
that unless every point in the stabili-
zation front was held, the entire line
would collapse. How prophetic these
words were is shown by the results.
Point No. in the Presidents pro-
gram was to keep personal and cor
porate profits at "a low level" through
heavy taxes and limitation on net
incomes. Congress promptly kicked
this out the window
Point No. was fixed ceiling on
prices and rents. Controls on rents
have been fairly effective in some
communities, although as whole
evasions have been numerous a d
profiteering rampant. Ceilings on
prices have been completely neffec-
tive in controlling the cost of living.
Even the index kept by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, which only partially
reflects actual cost of living increases,
proves that prices have not been stab
ilized. Every housewife in the country
knows the facts.
Point No. required the stabiliza-
tion of wages. This has been effected
vigorously by the War Labor Board
and other Government agencie s
through the infexible Little Steel''
formula.
Point No. sought stabilization of
farm prices at parity. Congress re-
Jected this ceiling, established higher
rates and is now trying to make the
sky the limit by turning down any
form of Government subsidy program.
Points No. 5, 6 and 7 called for the
sale of War Bonds, rationing of
scarce commodities and discouraee-
ment of installment credit. These
have been complied with in varying
degrees.
Thus, analysis of what has happen
ed to the Presidents program shows
that instead of getting "stabilization
indivisible" America now faces "stabi-
lization invisible" except for wages.
Of course, Congress never enacted
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
FACING
The
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

Some weeks ago we promised new
developments in the Kaltenborn case
We have them for you now. They are
not exactly what we anticipated. In
fact, they are better than we antici-
pated. At that time we looked for a
fight. We are happy to report that
there is no fight. A constructive set
tlement has been reached.
Suppose we run over the facts for
background purposes before going
into the new developments.
Suppose we run over the facts for
background purposes before going
into the new developments.
On Aug. 9, Kaltenborn said over the
radio that "by any standard Of COM
parison" non-union aircraft plants al
ways seem to come out ahead of the
plants in efficiency of production.
We challenged that statement. We
obtained an official report from the
War Production Board upholding our
contention. Kaltenborn refused to
retract his statement despite this Off
cial report. Thereupon, the American
Federation of Labor announced it
would present the facts in the contro-
versy to the Federal Communications
Commission and the National Broad
casting Company with demand for
appropriate action against Kalten-
born. That's where the first INSTALL
ment of this story ended
Now for the news. The first devel-
opment was the intercession of mu-
tual friends who expressed the view
that the controversy was based upon
misunderstanding a d suggested
that we meet with Kaltenborn to talk
things over before taking any drastic
action. Such meeting was then ar
ranged.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
WISE GUYS FLEECED

Business men in Washington re-
Gently were taken for a ride by a man
who registered at the capitals newest
luxury hotel, the Statler, as a 'Mr
Smith" The guy just told everyone
he was representing Warner Bros. and
was in Washington to supervise
filming of play called Capital Cap
ers," and engaged rooms for several
top-notch movie stars, cashed checks,
borrowed money, threw cocktail par
ties, hired actors, and was a we'll
liked big shot generally.
To the credit of 'Mr. Smith," he
did not extract money from widows
and orphans; he got it from men who
know what it is all about, men who
wouldn't lend you a dollar unless you
left your right arm for security. His
debts when he slipped out of town are
estimated at $4,000.
The FBI finally caught him in Chi
cago, and we learn that he not only
has been doing these little stunts for
20 years, but he was actually former
resident of Washington's own penal
institution.
Perhaps with such a career behind
him, and with so much experience in
the way of fleeing the wise guys
there was some excuse for business
men being fooled
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26

Having met the man and talked to
him, we can understand his psycholog-
ical reluctance. We feel that no con-
structive good would be accomplished
by pressing the point. We are willing
to waive it and write "finis" to the
entire incident.
Our objective is and always has
been to get a square deal for labor
over the radio. Developments in this
case indicate that progress in this di-
rection may be attained. We are going
to do all we can to further it. If, at
any time in the future, it appears that
our confidence was misplaced, we can
renew the fight.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
WHAT NEXT?

Use of barges and waterways in
stead of trucks and highways to dis
tribute it's products in the New York
City metropolitan district has solved
problem for Long Island soft drink
bottling plant. Six barges and coal
burning tugs were put into service
after truck mileage cuts were ordered
by the Office of Defense Transporta-
tion. The barges, hauling about 5000
cases each, are towed to key water
front points where distributors pick
up allotments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
To all of this Kaltenborn readily
assented.
Progress For The Future

10 all OF this kaitenborn readily
assented.
Progress For The Future
This looked like substantial
progress. But Kaltenborn went lot
further. He said he considered it un-
fortunate that critical and destructive
labor news receives most attention in
press and radio reports; that labor's
constructive achievements in further
ance of the war efforts should be more
frequently and effectively empha-
sized; and that he, for his part, was
determined to do his utmost in bring
ing this about.
At the same time, others present at
the meeting indicated that the radio
networks as whole would be glad to
cooperate in presenting a more fair
and more accurate picture of labor's
cooperation in the war effort to the
American people.
These expressions, coming as they
did from persons who are in position
to do something about it, were well
coined by the representatives of the
American Federation of Labor who
were present
We received no guarantee. No con-
tracts were signed. But the friendly
and cooperative spirit that prevailed
at the meeting was in itself more re-
assuring than any written documents
could be.
1t is true that Kaltenborn has made
no formal retraction of his original
statement nor does he intend to do so.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
AFL Wins $1,45O,000
In Retroactive Pay

Seattle, Wash, (ILNS).-AFL en-
ployes of the Boeing Aircraft COM
pany here have received an extra ST.
100000 in their paychecks. The
amount was the retroactive pay or
dered by the War Labor Board from
the period March to Sept. a, 1943.
Each employe continuously on the
payroll for the period received $78.
The retroactive pay and current
pay boost were granted after a Wig
orous campaign by the Aero Mechan-
les Union, AFL, and other unions,
which pointed out that the aircraft
plant scales were much lower than
rates paid by the shipyards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26

1t is claimed that widespread wage
increases would start serious infia-
tion. Such claim ignores the fact
that in many plants and industries
workers productivity has increased
far more than their wage. Such plants
and industries can well afford to raise
wages without any danger to prices.
-AFL monthly labor survey.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
Condition Often Intolerable'

Chicago.-Joseph D. keenan,, Chi
cago Federation of Labor secretary
and War Production Board official
said here that the reasons workers
leave jobs are usually substantial"
"The conditions under which many
people are living in war congested
communities are practically intoler-
able" he said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
WISDOM

The earth belongs to the living, not
to the dead.-Thomas jefferson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-11-26
Clarifying the Issues


Kaltenborn made it clear at the out
set that he is still convinced his state
ment was accurate at the time it was
made. We insisted just as strongly
that it was wrong Result-temporary
stalemate.
The radio commentator then pro-
ceeded to state that the argument has
no present validity; that the lag in
aircraft production which prompted
his protests last August has been
overcome; that the total October pro-
duction of $500 planes exceeded ex-
pectations; that union aircraft plants
are making fine records; that there is
no real or accurate basis of computing
comparative records Of production
efficiency because most of the large
aircraft plants in the country are now
unionized; that the heavy bombers
such as Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators which are primarily in de-
mand as offensive weapons are made
in union plants; that it may be unfair
to compare production efficiency in a
small-union plant with large union
lied plant making a different type of
plane; that outside factors, such as
changes in design, supply of materi-
ais, efficiency Of management and eff
cheney Of supervision by army or navy
representatives, have an important
bearing on results.
We agreed with all of this. On our
own motion, we volunteered the in
formation that it won't belong before
the entire aircraft industry is union
lied; that right now 81 per cent of
all war production is made by union
labor; that War Production Board
Chairman Donald Nelson had an
nounced 25 percent increase in pro-
ductivity per man in the aircraft in
dustry during the past six months.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Naual Aviati0n
Paintings

The trustees of the National Gal
lery of Art have issued invitations
to the opening this afternoon of an
exhibition of Paintings of Naval
Aviation" which will continue on
view until December II, inclusive.
after which it will be sent out on
tour throughout the country.
This will comprise 101 works, by
the following artists: Don Freeman,
Joseph Hirsch, Georges Schneider
Adolph Dehn, Howard Baer, Law
renee Beall Smith and Robert Ben
ney, all of whom, while working
were, by special permission, quar-
tered with the official aviatars and
also allowed to make flights. -
All phases of naval aviation are
covered, from preflight training to
combat duty. The artists were COM
missioned to do this, work by the
Abbott Laboratories. under grant
from the Navy, to which the paint
lngs and drawings, when COM
pleted, were given. Thus service
men and painters, private enter
prise and the Government cooper
ated in securing, for all time
this record of wartime valor and
achievement.
An attractive catalogue, with de-
scrlptive text and illustrations. has
been issued. LIN u
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Royalty in the Nineteenth
Century

By Julia Stoddard Parsons.
Bruce HumphrieSJ
Here is very pleasant book for
those who like their royalty royal
and without benefit of psycho-
analysis, debunking or social theor-
lzing. 1t is a book which wanders
along through most of the royal
residences of Europe in Victorian
days and deals with the crowned
heads and their collaterals mainly
in family terms Marriages, births
and deaths are Miss Parsons great
preoccupations, with the compli-
Gated blood relationships among the
various royal families coming in a
close second. She has no historical
method beyond telling, in chronology
ical pattern. who married whom,
what children they had, how they
Jared in wedlock and wha. the
union did for the continents al
ready complicated ruling strains.
She is kind to almost everybody and
finds her ideal of the royal person.
age in Queen Victoria. A large
number of photographs taken from
her famous collection of pictures
of royalty illustrate the book. in
itself an item OF no inconsiderable
interest. NC. R.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Brief Reviews
GIFT EDITIONS.

Tyl Ulenspiegl, by Charles De
Coster pantheon Book Trans
lated by Allan Ross Macdougall,
with introduction by Camille Hugs
mans, illustrated with 100 woodcuts
by F'rans Maserell. Don't miss it.
LIFE HISTORIES.
The Little Locksmith. by Katha-
rine Butler Hathaway (Coward-Mc-
Cann)-Autobiography. The story
OF a sensitive child growing into
womanhood after a serious illness
which left her physically frail.
Scene is Salem, Mass, from early
years of the century on. Serialized
in Atlantic Monthly.
And So to Bedlam, by Marguerite
Lyon Observation-Disclosures ad-
ventures of an advertising executive
and writer.
Joshua, by Rogers MacVeigh and
Thomas B. Costain Doubleday, Do
ran)-History Of the great Jewish
leader told in modern style.
RELIGION.
A Chain of Prayer Across the
Ages, by Selma Fitzherbert Fox
(Dutton)-A collection of prayers
originally published in 1918. Con-
tains supplications dating from 1000
BIC. to the present day.
MISCELLANEOUS
Out of Debt, Out of Danger, by
Jerry Voorhis Devin-Adair)- An
effort to prove that the taxpayer
is being rolled over a barrel, so to
speak, in the present borrowing
program. Difficult.
The Ports of British Columbia, bv
Agnes Rothery doubleday, Doran)-
Historical geography of Victoria and
Vancouver. Good.
Atlantic Meeting, by H. v. Morton
(Dodd, Mead - The Roosevelt
Churchill meeting of August, 1941
reported by British journalist.
Why Japan Was Strong, by John
Patric Doubleday, Doran) Life
among Japan's plain people.
Evening star., 1943-11-21

Hills Lory shows in detail how the
army trains and fights. Like Mr.
Grew, he warns that time is not
necessarily on our side. for Japan's
immense wealth of raw materials
and subject labor enable her tc
compete seriously with us in wal
production.
Perhaps the best book to read il
you have time for only one is Helen
Mears' Year of the Wild Boar
the highly entertaining record OF
year spent in Japan among Jap
anese of all classes and degrees of
WeSternization. AS she observed
Japanese behavior and made
friends, Miss Mears began to realize
the political implications of the
most trivial activity in japanese
society. There was no need for
Japan to mimic German totali-
tarianism: All the japanese lead
ers had to do was to use the in
stitutions and customs that had
prevailed in Japan from time imme-
mortal and since the whole
complex of divine leader, divine land
and divine people was genu-
inely rooted in daily customs. it gave
the japanese a national power and
drive that seemed fantastic when
compared with their actual energy
and strength
Miss Mears says sensibly:: 1T is
not enough to hate aggressors: it
is necessary also too understand
them, The peace that must follow
this war must take into account the
forces behind Japan's aggressive
drives, or it will only lead to new
and more frightful Pearl Harbors.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Walt Whitmun:
An American

By Henry Seidel Canby
(Houghton, Mid7inJ
This new biography of Walt
Whitman does not pretend to offer
much in the way of unexplored
source material. Instead. it. presents
the authors Interpretation of the
poets development and progress as
drawn from the poems. In great
part, therefore, it consists of exami-
nation of the poetical works for de-
ductions to be applied to Walt S
life. In next greater part, it is
made up of selections from Waits
letters. Mr.. Canby'S Interpretation
is not notably original-he con-
siders Walt a mixture of Puritan
ldeallsm and passionate sensuous-
ness, which is about what any one
would conclude from the teXtual
evidence. He admits that the con-
f1icting evidence concerning the
poets love affairs makes any def
mite conclusion there impossible, but
fatty rejects the Symonds allega-
tions concerning the "Calamus
poems-as has also been done
before. In short, the work is ortho-
dox in findings, if somewhat out of
the ordinary in manner. The re-
viewer found it, on the whole, mo-
notonous and inclined to be over
written.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Mellow Japanese Culture
BY Nancy Nimifx,
Readers Adviser, Public Library.

In pamphlet in the official
japanese tourist library, DR.. Koya
Nakamura presents an interesting
table of parallel events in Japanese
and European history. Summariz-
ing the Goth century, in Japan (pe-
riod of the "Manchurian Imbroglio"
and the China Affair" he notes
happily: "Meiji culture now grown
mellow" European civilization in
the same period having over
ripened, east now claims and asserts
equality with west"
The Public Library does not par
ticularly recommend DR.. Naka-
mura's pamphlet, except to the
connoisseur Of edphemisms. The
Library does suggest that it is un-
wise for Americans to underrate
Japan as Japan undertakes the west.
The Japanese think us soft and
weak. Let us not deceive ourselves
that they are quaint and initiative.
Many realistic books about the jap
anese are obtainable at the Central
Library, Eighth and K streets NV,
and its branches.
Joseph Grew, our Ambassador to
Japan from 1882 to 1941. in Report
From Toxic" gives the background
of japanese imperialism in Asia and
emphasizes that Japan is power
full, resourceful. utterly ruthless and
altogether dangerous enemy" He
warns that mopping up this enemy
after Germany cracks will be no
easy job because the japanese will
not crack, psychologically or eco
nomically, even when eventual de-
feat stares them in the face.
In "Japan's Military Masters, ,"
Evening star., 1943-11-21
6 Place Gallery Exhibitions
Present Strong Contrasts
By Florence s. Berryman.

The G Place Gallery's first pair of
exhibitions, which opened to the
public on November 7, presents
strong contrasts. Paintings by Euro
pean surrealists, arranged by Caresse
Crosby, are sophisticated and in
comprehensive, while the Mid
western American paintings as
sembled by David Porter have in
telligible subject matter transcribed
in naive techniques, in many in
| stances.
Oil paintings by Max Ernst, Ger
man; Yves Tanguy, French, and
Malta, a Basque, in Mrs. Crosby's
group, were nearly all done last
summer, in various parts of the
United States. But there is little
or no evidence of locale in them.
Ernst and Tanguy, who paint in
suave, realistic technique, typical of
the surrealist school, are represented
with works very similar to what
they have done heretofore, respec-
lively.
Several paintings by Ernst, en-
titled Pictures for Young People" "
depict such subject matter as pri-
meval swamps, matted jungles, sin
lister birds, insects and prehistoric
lizards. The majority of his sub
jects are recognizable, but their
combinations and presentations have
nightmarish quality. Ernst is said
to have been troubled by night
mares during a childhood attack of
measles, and to have been haunted
by grotesque creatures which ap-
peared to emerge from wooden
panel opposite his bed. If this is a
true story of the basis of his art, it
is a thoroughly unpleasant founda-
ton. However, his work is mark
edly individual.
Tanguy's paintings depict desc
late beaches stretching away to the
horizon, and "peopled" only by yari-
colored metallic bonelike forms and
other strange shapes having no con-
nection with any known objects.
Yet they are meticulously executed,
as though the artist had painted
them from a still-life arrangement.
All that the writer could get from
these works were feelings of melan-
choly and despair. Furthermore, a
room full of them would be monot-
onouS.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Top Hats and Tom-Toms
BIZ Elizabeth Dearmin FWbd

By Elizabeth Dearn1in FurbGy
(Zif-DaDiS)
This lively book tells the expert
ences of an American woman in
Liberia. Mrs. Furbay is the wife Of
a college professor who went out to
the Negro republic to serve as head
of the College of West Africa. She
made her home in Monrovia and
occupied herself with looking at
native ways whenever she had time.
Her book is one of the first popular
volumes to be written on Liberia in
a considerable period. 1t deserves
wide reading for the information it
contains and also happens to be
highly entertaining
The title derives from the mixed
white and native cultures which
Mrs. Furbay found everywhere evil
dent. When the public men of Lii
IBERIA meet-as for example, when the
Senate convenes-there are top hats
to be seen in plenty-top hats, boiled
shirts, striped trousers, cutaWays,
walking canes and all the rest of it.
But on less formal occasions and
among other groups of the country's
small population the sound of the
tom-t tom is by no means unfamiliar
The Liberians have not been imper-
vious to white influences, but they
are Africans, just the same.
Mrs. Furbay' investigations
touched on the family system -
where, as she says, she found no
couple in all her residence which
lived simply with its own legitimate
children. Outside children" the
|illegitimate offspring of the husband,
were practically always brought up
in the home, along with various ac-
|quired orphans and "pawns," the
latter being children given to the
well-to-do by the poor in token of a
debt. 1t describes Liberian public
where the music,
particularly the singing, seems to be
far below the high level which, in
this country, we expect from Negro
performers. 1t takes up native
methods of training the young, as
contrasted to the imposed foreign
education, wherein jungle schools