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Evening star., 1943-10-13
Senators Seek More
Experts 10 Examine
Requests for Funds
Move to Cut Federal
Expenses Gets Ununimou!
Approval of Committee
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

In a far-reaching move to cut
Government expenses. the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee
voted unanimously today to en-
large its staff of experts to go
more thoroughly into all budget
estimates.
Acting Chairman McKellar called
it the most forward step taken in
many years to bring about economy
and I believe it will accomplish re-
SUITS
No exact number of additional
technicians was agreed on. but the
resolution the committee voted to
present to the Senate tomorrow
places limit of $4,000 on its ex-
penses for the remainder of this
fiscal year,
Senator Mcclellan pointed out that
the committee this year handled
total budget of $l05 900, COO, 900
with the same number of experts
it had when Congress was appro-
priating only s4,OOO,0OO 900 year
for all Government requirements.
GAO Aid to Be Sought.
1t is understood that to get the
new survey of appropriations started
the committee will ask the General
Accounting Office to assign several
of its accountants to the committee.
temporarily at least.
The committee put off until Friday
consideration of several pending pro-
posals for an investigation of lease
lend policies.
Even with its present staff, Senator
Mcclellan said the Appropriation
Committees of the two Houses saved
about $4,000 100000 in the last fiscal
year, and said this is an idication of
what may be done with more help
to scrutinize all requests for funds.
OF last years savings, he said
$4,000, 100000 resulted from legisla-
ton calling for renegotiation of con-
tracts, and the remainder from cuts
made throughout the executive de-
partments.
Earlier. Senator Nye, Republican
Of North Dakota declared the sub
ject of lease-lend will be very much
under consideration" when the Ap-
propriations Committee meets today.
This committee passed on lease
lend outlays totaling almost s14,-
900, 0,0000 900 up to July 81.
Senator Ellender, Democrat, Of
Louisiana, calling on the adminis-
tration to start bargaining now"
with Allied beneficiaries, told the
Senate yesterday he would move for
separate investigating group un-
less the Appropriations Committee
(See LEASE-LEND, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1943-10-13
New Appeal Issued
As Blood Gifts Slump

Reporting decided slump In
blood donations, officials of the Blood
Donor Center today issued a new
appeal for donors to help maintain
Washingtons quota of 5000 pints q
week.
The drop in donations began two
weeks ago and is causing concern,
officials said. Plasma is badly needed
overseas, they added Donors may
phone the center, District 5000, for
an appointment
Evening star., 1943-10-13
Youngsters in Top Positions
Held Civil Service |BottIeneck'
Romspeck Report AssoiIs 'Overemphosis'
On College Degree for Personnel Officers

personnel officers. it can be stated
without contradiction that numerous
highly efficient men and women
have been lost to the war effort
Specifically, the committee as
serted that it had received COM
plants from Older men, technically
trained with a record of achieve
ment in private industry. who have
been rejected by the younger person.
mel officers.
The report also declared that
under its present setup, and with
its attitude toward college degrees.
the Civil Service Commissions regu-
tSee CIVIL SERVICE, page A-l6J
Evening star., 1943-10-13

The House Civil Service Com
mittee charged today that "inex-
perienced youngsters occupying
top personnel positions consti-
tute a real bottleneck" in the
Government effort to recruit
efficient help for the war effort.
Submitting to Congress an interim
report on the survey of personnel
practices begun several months ago.
the committee, headed by Repre-
sentative Ramspeck. Democrat, of
Georgia declared that "as a result
Of the apparent overemphasis on the
Importance Of a college degree for
Evening star., 1943-10-13
Senate Subcommittee Indorses
Postwar Peace Role by ~ Vote
Draft Of Policy Approves Cooperation
With Free and Sovereign Countries

the full committee next week
Chairman Connally predicted the
full committee would approve it
soon and expressed the opinion
that the Senate also would concur
Senator La Follette's opposition
to the measure was presented bv
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, Of
Michigan, in the absence of the Wis
consin Senator, who Is sick in a
Madison Hospital Senator La Fol-
lette had sent instructions to vote
his name against any resolution Al
this time.
The resolution. which represent a
tSee POSTWAR, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-10-13
Ohio Firm to Make
Plastic Rution Tokens
81 the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Government has contracted
with the Osborne Registry Co., a
division of the Dayton Acme Co.,
Cincinnati, for 100000, 900 plastic ra-
tion tokens which will go into use
early in 1914 to supplement ration
coupons.
Specifications call for a virtually
"counterfeit-proof" coin made of
vulcanized laminated fiber. The Os-
borne firm will receive approx
lnately 1900, 900.
Evening star., 1943-10-13
Late Bulletin
Alabama Mines Idle

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. (P.-
Five Alabama coal mines en-
ploying approximately LOO
men were idle today as news
Of the end Of Government op-
Grafton spread over the coal
fields. Earlier story on Page
B.2.)
Evening star., 1943-10-13
By the Associated Press.

A Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee approved, 7 to /,
today a postwar foreign policy
declaration which would pledged
the United States to "join with
free and sovereign nations in the
establishment and maintenance
of international authority with
power to prevent aggression and
to preserve the peace of the
world"
The resolution, voted over the op-
position of Senator La Toilette
Progressive. of Wisconsin. goes to
Evening star., 1943-10-13

(See WAR FUND, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1943-10-13

(See BADOGLIO, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-10-13

(See HOUSING. Page A-4.b
Evening star., 1943-10-13

(See LEASE-LEND, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Serious Joe {. Brown
Sells Australian Bonds
~ ths Assoeiatec press.

By ths Assoeiatec PTess.
BRISBANE, Australia. March a.
Joe i. Brown. American motion pic
ture comedian, arrived here yester-
day dressed for tropical New Guinea
which he plans to visit soon-and
turned salesman for Australia s
third Liberty Loan drive.
More than 1000 Australians,
mostly civilians, gave him q tremen-
dous ovation when he strobe onto
the stage Of the Town Han and
was introduced as more than .
famous aim star and comedian-a
great American
The Australians had come to
laugh, but instead they met serious
man who told them:
1--WE been asked by our boys II
the folks back home are backing
them up, II they know there's 4 war
on. Your boys probably are asking
the same thing"
The laughs win come later, how
ever, when the sun-tanned come
dian starts his swing of Army camps
In Northern Australia.
I've Just come to bring laughter
and smiles to the faces of the boys
IN UNIFORM" he explained.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Five Weeks Child Care
Course 10 Open April Is

A hve-week course In child care to
train women for volunteer work In
nursery schools will begin April Is
under the sponsorship Of the Emer-
gency Committee for Young Chill
dren and the Civilian Defense Vol
unteer Once.
The course, for which applicants
must register and be interviewed,
will be given at the headquarters Of
the American Womens Voluntary
Service, 2170 Florida avenue NV.
Mrs. Herbert Emmerich Is directing
the course.
Following completion of five weeks
training, volunteers win be required
to give q minimum Of two mornings
q week in pre-school child centers.
Applications can be made at the
Civilian Defense Volunteer Once,
1924 F street NV, or at the booth,
1921 Pennsylvania avenue NV. Reg
istration with the CDVO is neces-
sary.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Withholding Of Foodstuffs
From Sweden Suggested

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 24.-Sir Alfred
Knox told the House Of Commons
today that Sweden's attitude since
the beginning Of the war had been
definitely pro-Axis" and suggested
that the United Nations had power
to bring her into line by withhold
ing foodstuf1s sent from the United
States.
His charge followed questions to
the government which asserted that
German transport aircraft carrying
troops and unmounted machine guns
had been passing over Sweden.
Norman Bower, Conservative
member from Harrow, asked whether
Britain would make 1t clear to the
Swedish government that these
breaches of neutrality on the part OF
Sweden must react inevitably to her
disadvantage"
Richard Law, the parliamentary
undersecretary Of state, answered
that the facts must be established
first and that was being done.
Evening star., 1943-03-24

factory owners and plant managers
to keep . special watch On foreign
labor, pointing out that In han
ding machines "1axity or bad will"
may cause great damage.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Alexandra Schools Aid
Statewide Bond Drive

Alexandria schools have been
putting On IN intensive bond selling
campaign In the last few weeks Is
their part In the Statewide drive
to buy jeeps for the Army.
The George Mason School leads
with . total Of $500 ~ sold since
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Bomb Blasts Nuzi DEPOT

BERN, March "a R.-A dispatch
to the Geneva Tribune from Lyon,
France, said today that . powerful
delayed bomb had blown up . COL
lection Of wooden buildings beside
the Perrache railroad station used
by the Germans to store war ma
terial for trsznsshipment.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
The start Of the second semester.

the start Of the second semester.
Other figures representing amounts
sold in the schools since the start
Of the second term are: George
Washington High School. $3,e63. II;
AAMy, $500; Mount Vernon, 81,
eo2.6o; Jefferson, $l,207.70; WASH
1ngton. $8l6.60; Lee, $820; Parker
Gray, $61S; Lyles-C Crouch. $226, and
Seminary, SHOTS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
USING TRIED METHODS
Editor Askov American:


Regarding the liberal movement
apparently being dead for the time
being. During times of stress and
war people naturally try to protect
themselves by using tried methods
and uniting to form a maximum of
strength to resist the danger with
which they are confronted. A liberal
movement depends on vigorous lead
ership not afraid of trying some
thing new. 1t is progressive and
exploratory. Furthermore, many lib
erals who see things going wrong,
hesitate and rightly so, from doing
anything that may cause prolonga-
ton of the war and more casualties.
Liberals, in order to be so, must have
conscience as we'll as courage.
1t must be remembered that the
liberals never have any support from
orthodox sources. Entrenched wealth
and special privilege, the clergy and
educators, are usually lined up with
the conservatives. However, there
are outstanding exceptions. In ad-
dition to this most army and naval
officers are by their profession con-
sentative. The liberal element de-
ponds on the labor movements and
the farm cooperatives primarily for
support. Its leaders are those few
men, who throughout history have
been willing to take the part of the
masses in the endless struggle for the
rights of the common man.
These few men, in spite of abuse
and ridicule, are responsible for all
improvements which have taken
place in all fields. Even the radicals
of the army like Billy Mitchell and
many others saw approaching events,
but during their day were ridiculed
and degraded and dishonered, be-
cause they were like Columbus, who
dared to dispute the ''best minds
by saying that the world was round.
There is nothing more difficult to
crack than ignorance supported by
position.
S. J. SIMONSEN.
PeaSe, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25

labor power, the technical skill, the
need. Do we have the imagination
the courage to go forward? We need
to get our eyes. off the caves and
set them on the castles, to quit squint-
ing through hindsights and gaze
through foresights, to forget the past
and think of the future, to release
the breaks and pull open the throttle
Here's field as big as the earth
The land is a clutter with special
interest organizations. We need nc
more of these. We need a mass
interest economic movement, one that
sets as its goal the elimination OF
upper class, as class, and the rails
ing of the underlying mass to the
level Of economic security. The
upper class is organized and Gin
tends to hold its own" The middle
class is unorganized, wandering like
the lost souls of inferno.
The upper class is tightening its
lines. The middle class is busy
trying to keep its shirt while the
underlying class is humping to the
first job it has had. in Is years. When
the peace dove returns with the olive
leaf that job will end. The upper
class will nail down ats own" and
the two lower classes (having be-
come one class), will go back to sell
ing apples with, ne buyers:
Why doesn't some visionary, some
dreamer, some planner, get the Wis
ion and say, Come on, let's go?
Let's have middle class movement
to eliminate classes"
What the world will be tomorrow
depends on what the masses do about
it today. It must do something now,
or tomorrow it will find itself used
as paving for the few to walk on.
o. NJ. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
WORK TO BE DONE
Editor Askov American:

| Editor ASkOV American:
Writing in 1922 of World War I,
Maj. c H. Douglas of England said:
"At the time of the Armistice there
was not an unemployed man in this
country Hardly had the last
stretcher case reached a casualty
clearing station than a bleat of
| real anguish rose from these sheltered
shores not from the wrecks in
hospital blue, but from Lord Inch
cape and other bankers" We be-
| came a poor nation :. unemploy-
ment figures rose from nil to three
million
Everyone knows the sordid tale
of unemployment and apple-selling
that followed our own resolution to
pay our debts and get back to nor
malcy in the twenties. Are we going
to repeat that blunder? Are we going
to accept the whine that there's no
work to do?" Are we going to settle
down in the wreckage of economic
stagnation and let mature take its
courSe?"
Even today public plunderers are
preparing the moose for our necks.
They warn that business will have
time, that there must be thine
lag"
But Stuart Chase, the most for
ward-thinking economist on the hor-
lion, believes there will be plenty of
much-needed work to do, even from
the moment the guns cease firing.
"a public works program greater
than any civilization has ever
dreamed of awaits US. Whole cities
need to be rebuilt and decentralized;
mighty watersheds to be tanned, like
that of Tennessee; the forests of
America need to be put on a perpet-
ual-yield basis, the grasslands re-
stored, the entire transport system to
be refrigerated -
Yes, every city should be uncon-
gested and implied and spread out
and its streets widened to suit mod
ern traffic, not fit only for horse
carts. Two-way and four-way high
ways should checkerboard the land,
grade-crossings replaced with the
under-pass and over-pass. Ten mil
lion dwellings should replace the
shacks in slums and on farms; all
present structures need repainting.
Yes, there's work in sight for every
enployable person for the next 20
years.
We have the raw materials, the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25

the business before it. The income
tax, gift tax and iron ore tax bills
have passed the House and are about
to be reported out by the Senate
committee. The House bill does not
provide for cut in state net income
taxes while the Senate committee
recommend a cut of one-fourth. In
the ore tax the House bill calls for a
tax of 1012 per cent on Lake Erie
price to which the Senate has not
yet agreed.
Your Senator hereby acknowledges
receipt of a great number of form
post cards from various parts of
Pine county asking for reduction
in taxes. Those who marked those
cards were unanimous in asking for
reduction in property levy. To these
people I feel quite sure l can prom
Use favorable action by the legisla-
ture. On the other two, the net in
come and money and credits tax re-
duction will only be made if suf-
ficient revenue is available after ap-
preparations have been taken care
Of While there is surplus of six
or seven million dollars in the in
come tax fund, such a surplus would
not be available if the school aids
were paid in full instead of on a
basis of IS per cent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25

single unpleasant incident" Fur
thermore, she stated that none of us
has ever been SO happy"
The fellowship in prominent wom-
ems organizations and the daily free
and happy exchange of ideas of
homemakers in newspaper columns
such as ''The Household Forum" pub
licly confirm my long contention
that women possess, and sustain, the
same healthy camaraderie as men,
and that it is only malicious men and
women who play persons of the same
sex against each other, as well as
those of the opposite sex.
Women have not had, until suf-
frage, the equal opportunity of men,
to display this innate friendly quail
ity-vicious hosiery bargains not
withstanding. The latter is merely
one of the symptoms of bad eco
nomic disorder which permits poor
distribution of goods; it is an eXhi-
bition of the same kind of scrap
piness men show in cutthroat COM
petition, also symptom of perni-
ciouS economy.
hope this time-worn "fun" and
contempt men have had at the ex-
pense of women will pass into the
discard as we emerge from this war
into new, and more mature, age
of civilization.
MARIE N. V. PEARSON.
ST. Paul, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
TAKING IDLE MACHINERY
(The Faribault JournaD


Some government bureau is doing
a necessary job. That is the agency
which is quietly re-distributing our
wood and metal working machinery
of all types and kinds.
Many employers with good equip
ment aren't working it. They haven't
jumped into war work and their
plants are running only about as they
did in peacetime. Others have la
bored to run their plants all the way
from 48 hours week to two or three
shifts every "a hours.
One principle of our government
is that an individuals property cam
not be taken without compensation,
but that our government can take
anything as long as it pays for it.
This is the policy under which we
obtain roads for our highways; our
homes can be taken for that. The
only restriction is that the govern
ment pay for what it takes.
Therefore, when the government
steps into factory which isn't maxi
ing full use of its machinery and
takes and pays for what it needs,
it is only exercising a power which
it has always had and exercised.
That is exactly what some agency is
efficiently doing. AS the need turns
up, its men 60 to a plant which is
only running as before Pearl Har-
Dor and it takes the machines it
wants, pays for them and ships them
to buster plants. Production has been
stepped up a great lot and much
good has resulted. We understand
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25
COMPULSORY WORK HOURS
Editor ASkov American:

Editor ASkov American:
The compulsory 48-hour week for
miners and lumberjacks was caused
by paying higher wages for easy than
for hard work.
In my opinion it is wrong to COM
pei those who serve on the heavy
end of industry to work more hours
than those who serve on the easy end.
Why not invite these rugged in
dividuals' back to do hard work by
higher pay and a shorter day? Va
cancies caused in the easy branches
by a response to that invitation
could be filled by extending the
work day in the soft spots. The
merits of this system will be that
those rugged individuals" will be
able to take care of themselves, not
only now but also during the time
when they are not able to do hard
work any more and not become the
victims of a spacious charity society
(WPA or OAA).
The self-reliant Individual who,
when able, has given his limbs and
muscles to serve public interests
should never wish or need a philan-
thropic plan. His sound muscles and
limbs should be ample security to
be worth independence free of want.
Such a policy is more human. l
consider it worth fighting for and it
fits nicely into a postwar program
with consideration for the problems
of the common man.
JOHN NIEBOER.
Sandstone Mimi
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-03-25

does not apply to the colonial pos
sessions of the British common
wealth. If it does not, will "dic-
tated peace" be anything but swim
ming the war" and closing the peace?"
OBJ Economic stability Con an ade-
uuate basis) for all belligerents
(vanquished as well as victors).
The apprehension is growing in
some quarters that the completely
grand slogans, "a struggle for the
salvation of civilization" and "free-
dom for all men" are being obscured
in the smoke and CRIME of battle.
Freedom for all men, obviously in
cludes Koreans, Chinese, Japanese,
Germans, Javanese, etc., and peace
leaving any people in economic slav-
cry and in want of the necessities
of life will be nothing but the pre-
cursor to another "war for free
DOM" Former President Hoover has
said that there can be no real peace
in Europe with dismembered Ger
many. Can there be real peace
in Asia with a dismembered Japan,
which, whether we like it or not, is
highly migrated, literate, dis
ciplined and dominant people?
Japan, too, must have the same
freedom from want" that we, to-
gether with hungry China and hum
CRY India, must have. A hungry
Asia would, if allowed to remain
hungry, wage war upon 'the whites. !"
&C. International policing (for a
time).
President Roosevelt suggested to
Congress that we must disarm our
enemies and keep them disarmed.
AT the 62nd annual dinner of the
Academy of Political and Social
Science, held on November 10 last,
it was stated that there must be a
continuation of our armed might"
Another prominent, statesman de-
clared that 1--WE must police the
world"
Happily, however, as a contrast
to these utterances, suggesting unilat-
SI 81 pOliSC loiStiOiiS LII Odl oSlSSo,
many observers are beginning to
realize that any such plan would
be nothing but continuation of war,
under disguise of course. Further,
many in positions to know the Far
East understand that, under such
one-sided police control, Asia would
become a hot-bed of unrest and po-
tential revolution. DR.. Stanley Jones
has pointed out that we may ''lose
ASIA" if Christian peace does not
prevail. w. B. Rutledge, Jr., ap-
pointed to the Supreme Court, has
stated that one of the alternatives
for a postwar world is "a federal
union of the nations of the world
which binds everyone capable of dis
turbing the International peace to
observe it. That means Germany,
Japan, Italy, the United States, the
British Commonwealth, Russia and
China at least" In my opinion in
ternational policing under the aus
pices of such a supernatural body
as that federal union. would be
truly International and impartial and
just. Further, by it, the 100000, 900
'non-whites" of Asia, assuming a
fair share of this. policing, would
respect it and would abandon the
thought of any race war.