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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

justifies, or at least gives lodg-
ment for the writer's in our daily
press, and for newspaper COM
mentators to constantly discuss
the feuds existing between
government departments and
between the different agencies
of government and their reSpec-
tive heads, and the maneuvering
that is going on upon the part
Of one branch of government to
grab a plum from another de-
partment.
This is tragic and can serve
only to disorganize united eff
fort. When these attacks are
leveled at the armed forces they
can only serve to endanger the
war effort.
There is too much time lost
on the industrial production
front by Investigations and
bureaucratic interference from
governmental departments that
can have no rightful place in the
efforts of a nation at war.
The hands of industry and
management charged with war
production must not be manacled
and palsied through govern
mental red tape and bureau
cratic paper work requirements.
Let's fire more bullets and
ammunition at the enemy, and
fewer missionaries at our bust
ness executives! Let's use more
machine guns and fewer mimeo-
graph machines! Let's win the
war first, study its history later,
and then ask questions!
OUR only aim is to win this
" war; nothing else can mat
ter now. We must not slacken
our war effort by stopping to
plan the division of the world
in the future. We cannot pause
in the midst of battle TO decide
sociological questions nor to de-
termine how we can bring the
idealistic freedoms to the people
of all the world.
Now let's consider the ma
terial wealth. We are fighting
for that, too, as we fight for
our ideals, because we must
have material wealth in order to
live, prosper and enjoy the free
doms our ideals give to us. That
is why we are fighting this war.
That is why every patriotic
nation has ever fought-to pro-
tect its ideals, and TO protect
its material wealth. Do not let's
delude ourselves.
Let's not divert our efforts at
this critical stage of the war
with what kind Of settlement we
will have and what plannings
will be necessary TO restore all
Of the world to peace and happi-
ness. Too much attention CEN
tered on the peace Of the future
means too little attention CEN
tered on winning the war of the
present.
Let us be more practical This
war must be won with bullets,
with guns with tanks and planes
and ships. II cannot be won with
hybrid corn and social reforms.
Let's help plan the future Tim
buctoo and Patagonia after we
have destroyed the military
might Of the Germans and the
Japs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
First Things First

sI EFT us put first things first" said President Roose
l. welt in public address.
One Of those first things" that should be first
the domestic front the maintenance Of the system of
Free Enterprise that is performing such glorious deeds
of production.
And one of the things that is NOT among first things
is planning" for postwar control by the government of
those very Industries which will also necessarily mean
the control of our free labor system.
The New Deal leaders not only planning for the
years to come-which is putting LAST THINGS first
but they planning for the rest of the world we'll
This international New Deal" was referred to with
humorous by the national commander of the
American Legion Roane Waring, when he said in an
address in Washington the other day:
lets help plan the future TmbuctOo and Patagonia
after we have destroyed the military might Of the Ger
mans and the Japs."
IE DELIVERED another clarifying and sraight-from-
| / the-shoulder opinion when he said:
lets fire more bullets and ammunition at the enemy
and fewer questionnaires at business executives
And Commander Waring put first things first
when he said:
Until this war is must not weaken
efforts by vain and premature planning for a and
never-to- attained worldwide Utopia.
I'VE must not slacken effort by stopping to
plan the division of the world in the future.
I'VE cannot pause in the midst of battle to decide
sociological questions to determine how bring
the ideasc freedoms to the peoples Of all the world
We are NOT fighting to force freedom on those who
do -and at least half the world has notion
of being "free" in the American of that word.
We are NOT fighting for any ideals except those of
STRICTLY AMERICAN GROWTH.
I'VE fighting this war;" says Mr.. Waring, "as
every patriotic nation has fOught-to protect its
ideals and its MATERIAL WEALTH"
4 ND to win this it is material wealth. the
"A product of private enterprise that will count
This material wealth makes the bullets, the tanks
the airpanes, the ships and clothes and feeds
1t is these "frst things that we must keep aglow
in hearts, in brains and in muscles.
The future has tricky, sometimes hooking, way of
taking of itself.
This is no time for Utopian bueprints.
1t is the time for ACTION ACTION and ALWAYS
MORE ACTION
1t is the time for keeping ONLY AMERICAN FIRST
THINGS FIRST.
And those first things are our FREE ENTER
PRISE SYSTEM, our LIBERTIES-and VICTORY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
What War Bonds Buy

America is the best educated
nation on the globe Start saving
now for that collection of books
you have always wanted. Buy
War Bonds regularly and build
a fund for your library.
Join the Pay Roll Savings Plan
at your office or factory and in
vest at least 10 per cent of your
income in War Bonds regularly.
U. @. Treasury DspsrtmsnA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Miners Side
Of Rebellion
SIaps Lewis
MaIIon Fuel Oil Story
Gets Quick Results
BY PAUL MALI0N

WASHlNGToN' Jan. lS'-Ihe
w other side of the story of
the rebellious anthracite miners
has not been called much to
public attention.
These miners work under a
union check-off. The dues of
the union are collected from
their wages by the companies
and turned over TO the union.
They cannot refuse payment OF
this kind of totalitarian levy
without quitting work.
The so cents-a-month dues
Increase seems a pittance, but
it is a so per cent increase,
and the overlooked point is that
the workers were not consulted.
The increase was voted by the
union leaders gathered in a
convention dominated by their
soft coal competitors.
NOV no union can justify a
~ strike against a people at
war, especially not in the dead
of winter during a fuel famine.
But, if you were miner. what
would you do in this case7 Your
union is supposed to be your own
organization, but too often the
leaders are politicians who levy
dues Involuntary through con-
vention controls.
And what do the union leaders
do with the money they thus
take from the workers toll?
Well, John L. Lewis used
$4,000 or 100000 Of these
mine workers funds TO re-elect
President Roosevelt in 1886. He
also bought the University Club
for the United Mine Workers
headquarters, the richest office
in Washington.
The workers cannot appeal TO
the government TO protect them
from extortion. The government
and all its laws are on the other
side, the side of the union
leaders.
THESE particular workers
Il have been laboring only 35
hours a week during wartime,
and recently have received an
increase in pay for a sixth day.
Whose fault this was has not
been cleared up. but the evil
dence always seemed to me 10
hold John Lewis. the govern
ment price schedules and even
the operators as much at fault
as the workers for failure to
break the contract sooner.
A FEW readers, not many, got
"A the peculiar notion from my
recent recitation Of my fuel oil
problems that I had become the
meanest man in the world and
that was indulging in a per-
Sonal complaint to get more fuel
oil for myself. They should have
been able to see the point
clearer than that.
Much good was accomplished,
Immediately, Mr.. Henderson an
nounced dealers must furnish
oil to holders of coupons whether
or not they are regular custom
ers. and thereby he corrected
the basic complaint of my first
article.
YOU can now get oil if you
l. have coupons. Stories have
been published since then indi-
eating the government also will
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

YOU can now get oil if you
l. have coupons. Stories have
been published since then indi-
eating the government also will
follow the line of subsequent
articles and keep homes heated,
closing recreational centers,
schools and churches IL need be.
Stacks of mail on my desk
from rationing board Off
Gals and suffering consumers
throughout the East and Cen
trail States prove what l knew,
that mine was not a personal
fuel problem, but an example of
a national problem of the aver
age individual.
This kind of criticism justifies
itself by the defects il correets
in the war effort. Yet, there
are a number of good citizens
who have written me honestly
advocating that this criticism
and all other kinds be stopped.
This is prim patriotism.
Criticism is barred only in the
countries we fight against. Each
man in a democracy must de-
eide such q matter for himself.
HEM CRAZY gains, in
~ strength and wisdom from
clean criticism, and the eternal
vigilance of its citizens against
wrong, their alertness in safe
guarding their rights.
The press would serve this
nation poorly in this war IL it
attempted to cover the wrongs,
defects and inefficiencies by say
ing yea" to everything. It
might better not exist.
So also with the people in my
opinion. They serve themselves
poorly who will not speak for
justice. II they become a yes
people, they will become a weak
people and they will deserve OPP
preston,
Few government officials will
correct their own mistakes.
even after prodding, unless the
prodding is strong.
But, to say that our people
cannot face facts and truth in
wartime is the worst criticism
of this government, this nation
and its people. that any one
could ever make.
II supposes the government is
so bad and the people so weak
minded that they dare not face
the facts for themselves. This,
/ know, Is not true.
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An old orange wood stick from
your manicure kit will be found
helpful to get at the dirt in the
corners when washing windows or
floors.
To lengthen the service of a
broom, as it wears down, cut ! or
2 rows of the stitching.
Dirty clothespins leave their
mark on otherwise clean clothes,
and once in, the dirt is difficult to
remove. Tub pins in warm, soapy
water once a month, dry them in
the sun and store them in a spot
lessly clean bag from washday to
washday. They deserve good care
especially in wartime.
Use a potato ricer to squeeze out
that hot compress. With it you
a use water much hotter than
your bare hands can stand.
To save time and hosiery, just
rub paraffin on the inside of the
toes of your stockings. You will
have no darning to do for a long
time and one application lasts
through many l~aunderings.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
Man Is Fourth in List
Of Long-Lived Creatures

The carp appears to hold the
old-age record among living crea-
lures. Here is a table of records,
based on recent observations, but
in nearly every case the average
age of the creature is consider
ably less than the record age:
Carp, 800 years; tortoise, ESQ;
elephant, ITO; man (Zaro Agha),
157; cockatoo, 140; vulture, 118;
parrot, 100; eagle, 100; donkey, So;
pike, 70; horse, g.; gull, 60; goose,
43; eel, &C, cat, SO; dog, "a; COW,
30; nightingale, Is; skylark, "a;
lobster, 20; canary, 20.
Many fantastic stories are told
about the age of the whale, and
of the toad, but none of these can
be authenticated.
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Philadelphia Story

The true philadelphia Story is
wrapped around the astonishing
Phillies of 1913.
When Bill Cox took over this
habitual inhabitant of the cellar a
short while back and brought in
Bucky Harris to handle the remains.
the general opinion was that it would
take about two years in which to
remove the winding sheet.
But when the Phillies lately PLAYED
to over $4,000 spectators in two
games, there was something new to
think about in a baseball way.
The season, which started darkly,
Is still young. And yet in this
morbid beginning the Phillies have
already drawn III greater crowds
than 1910, l941 or 1912 knew in mid
season.
They have a hustling young club
under a smart, hustling leader-the
type Of ball club that probably won't
finish in the first division, but will
no longer be the doormat for the
rest of the league.
The main answer is that the Phil
lies are almost certain to break their
attendance record for many years,
wherever they finish.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10

MANY a bride today is doing
AVA her furniture shopping in Sec
ond hand stores where she finds a
choice selection of the over-elab-
crate discards. These are not an
tiques and it takes a discerning
eye to see any possibilities of
beauty in them. The trick is in
figuring out good proportions and
modern comfort.
Chintz covers will hide padding
over woodwork and carving. Legs
may be cut off to give a low seat
and if the back legs are cut a little
shorter than the front, the backs of
chairs and settees are given a
comfortable tilt. Here, a loosely
stuffed seat cushion fills in the
edges of the rounded spring seat.
Narrow cotton fringe trims the
lowered cover and the resulting
piece is full of informal charm.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
The Other Side

There Ire many who believe that
there is a strong organized influence
against competitive sport, and pro-
fessional sport in general, on the
side of mass, matchmaking devel-
opment, devoted largely to such
matters as calisthenics and nom
competitive training.
1t can't believe the country has
moved into any such state of com.
plete insanity.
Competitive sport has been one of
the major factors in the develop
ment of this country, and it is more
needed today than it ever was be-
fore.
We need this-not against the war
effort-but as a vital part of the war
effort.
It is my belief that most of the
leaders in Washington know this to
be true.
1t might be that some ambassador
of sport might help a trifle in making
his plea at court.
I doubt it. For I believe most of
those in charge at Washington I'M
derstand the benefits that can come
from a sporting program handled
entirely as a War-effort benefit.
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The Questions

I. The right of the state to take
property for public Use is called
what?
2. What is another name for the
gladiolus?
3. Whose motto was: Better to
live a day as a lion than 100 years
as a sheep?
4. What was the first of Presi.
dent Wilson'S IA points?
S. For what country did John
Paul Jones serve as a rear ad.
miral after the Revolutionary
war?
6. Where is bilge water found?
7. What name is given to a COM
pany whose main business is the
owning of stocks or securities OF
other companies?
8. Does England receive any
taxes or other kind of tribute from
her dominions?
9. What is the difference be-
tween a prisoner of war and a
prisoner of state?
10. Into how many zones Of lati-
tude and temperature is the world
divided?
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
WHITE COLLAR MINERS

While the War Labor board had
John l.. Lewis over a barrel for
asking a S2-a-day wage increase for
organized coal miners, another
branch Of the government, the Blu
reau of Internal Revenue. okayed
various salary increases for non
union supervisory employees in coal
mines.
The matter was kept hushed up by
secret-loving Internal Revenue bu'
r%eaucrats, but here are the facts:
A special Internal Revenue
branch, known as the Salary Stabili,
cation unit, functions in the salary
field like the War Labor board If
the wage field, to keep personal earn
ings below inflationary levels. Thu
new unit must approve application
for all salary boosts affecting bust
ness executives and white cola
workers..
While everything the War Labol
board does is open to public scrutiny
Internal Revenues Salary Stabilize
ton unit operates strictly behind the
enc and doesn't answer to any
body.
Recently, it leaked out, however
that bituminous coal mine opera
tors, in a move to block union or
ganization of mine "sub-bosses," hac
requested government permission te
increase salaries of all supervisory
employees, including mine superin
tendents, managers, foremen, sub
bosses, etc. That white-collar in
crease amounted to an average O.
81 a day-just the increase the min
ers asked for.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
Presidents Widows

Here is a bit of information
which may surprise you. There
are six wives of former Presi-
dents living today. Moreover, they
are doing their bit in the war eff
fort by helping out in the sale of
war stamps and bonds.
Oldest of the former Presidents
wives is Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
who is "a. The other five are Mrs.
Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Thomas
Preston, formerly Mrs. Grover
Cleveland, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson,
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10

If you were to say the first bugle
call of the day in the Army is
"Reveille'-you'd be wrong. It's
First Call" But you probably
know what cigarette gets first call
with Army men-it's Camel. And
Camel is the favorite with men in
all branches of the service-Navy,
Marines, Coast Guard, too. Biased
on actual sales records from serv-
ice mems stores.) And though
there are Post Office restrictions
on packages to overseas Army
men, you ear still send Camels
to soldiers in the U. S., and to
men in the Navy, Marines, and
Coast Guard wherever they are.
ADV.
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eould ever hope to be under govern
ment direction.
Considering the amateur and pro-
fessionai side, sport still has such
experienced administrators as Judge
Lands, Ford Frick and william Har-
ridge for baseball-Herbert Bayard
Swope for racing-Majo r Grifiths
of the Western conference and Asa
Bushnell of the Eastern conference
in college athletics-George Blossom
and his USGA committee in golf
Elmer Layden for pro football-good
men in tennis, bowling and basket
ball-including the AAU.
There is no perfect human being
In this long list. But it should be
remembered that there is no part Of
a perfect human being in the world
we know today.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10

In grating fruit trees in the
spring, keep the grating wax from
sticking to your hands by keeping
a piece of pork rind handy and
rubbing your hands on it occasion
ally.
Odors on the hands resulting
from peeling and slicing onions
can be removed by washing the
hands in vinegar.
To make sterilized bandages at
home, tear a clean old sheet into
strips, roll them and then place
in ar alright jar. Suspend the
jar in water and allow the water
to become boiling hot for several
minutes.
Yellowed ivory knife handles can
be whitened by rubbing them with
turpentine.
The space beside the freezing
unit is the best spot in the refrig-
orator for storing milk.
Here is a way to prevent loose
casters from dropping from the
furniture when it is moved about.
Put melted parafin in the hole
and insert the caster before it is
set.
Strong soap suds and hot water
will remove stains from pewter
which has become discolored and
dark.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
r A r CANADA

Food Boss Chester Davis has spenr
days looking for a good transporta
ton man to solve that problem O.
bringing in wheat from Canada.
Commodity Credit corporation has
bought TX million bushels of Cana.
dian wheat, but not a bushel has
moved. Meantime, dairy and poul.
try farmers in the Northeast are
running low on feed grains.
Great Lakes steamers got moving
a month late, on account of the late
thaw. They are loaded down with
r for the steel mills, have no space
for grain. Rail movement is the
only alternative.
Grain stocks in the U. S. have been
the heaviest in history, but so is con.
sumption of grain. Misunderstanding
animal production is eating into the
stocks so fast that foreign imports
must be moved. This is one time
when farmers would welcome some
OF that much abused Argentine corn
and wheat.
Behind this excitement about
grain supplies is n big question
mark which few people outside the
government realize, namely, the
feeding of occupied territories.
If and when invasion comes, the
civilians on the invasion front,
whether in France, the Low Coun.
tries, or the Balkans. will have to
be fed from the American bread
basket. Quickest way to get food
to starving people is in the form OF
grain.
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4. Open covenants openly ar
rived at.
5. Russia.
6. At the bottom of boats.
7. Holding company.
8. England does not receive any
taxes or any kind of tribute from
the 15O-odd dominions, colonies,
protectorates, dependencies and
inundated territories that consti-
tute the British Commonwealth of
Nations.
9. A prisoner of war is released
when the war is ended but a pris-
oner of state has to stand trial aft
er the war.
10. Five-north frigid, north tenn
perate, torrid, south temperate,
south frigid.
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Ready for Anything

After the optician had tested the
professors eyes and found them
wanting, he asked:
"And now, sir, which shall It
be-eyeglasses or spectacles?"
"Spectacles, please; and I think
I'd better have three pairs"
"What ever for?" demanded the
optician in surprise.
eyes," said the professor; lone
pair for home and one for my Of.
flee, and a third pair to look for
the other two"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
Judge Own Voice

A concert singer, during a re-
cital, cannot often determine if he
has the proper volume because his
voice does not reverberate as in
a room. Therefore, some vocalists
today use a concealed microphone
and a directional amplifier aimed
at them from the wings, so that
they ear judge their own perform
ance.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-06-10
The Main Idea

Sport would be far better off, for
the game itself and everyone con-
cerned which includes many, many
millions, if Washington would let
it work out its own destiny with the
war effort, naturally, the FREEDOM
inant point.
If those now in charge Of various
sports, with their long experience,
can't handle the problems that wait
ahead, then sport hasn't a chance.
Many Of these have made mis-
takes. But those c%riticizing them
might have made even bigger mis-.
takes.
This is no world in which to seek
perfection and it is my belief that
most Of those directing sport have
turned in a pretty fair job. Not a
masterpiece, just a pretty good job.
It seems to us that the government
in Washington already has it's full
share Of problems in trying to han.
die the workings of the army, the
navy, the marines, the air force, the
coast guard, the gasoline and rub
Der situation, the food tangle prices
the tax bill, imitation. the unions, the
coal miners and ten or twenty othe,
matters, without attempting to pill
on another headache. There hav,
been various rumors around tina
many Of these problems have no
yet been settled to the complete sat
isfaction Of the nation at large.
There have even been rumors tina
many Of these important matters
have been somewhat muddled.
1t is difficult to understand where
any good could come from the add
ton of a new snarl.