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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
, COMMENT ON WORLD
!. EVENTS

With it's half million members (out
Of a population of three and three
quarter million) the Danish trade
union movement now has more mem
bers than ever, the Swedish paper
Social Demokraten, points out, con.
tinuing, that in spite of all the diff
culties created by the German occupa-
ton and the high cost of living the
Danish workers have remained loyal
to their organizations and ideas, al
though their country is so cut off. Even
the Swiss and Swedish trade union
papers are not allowed into the coun-
try.
The leaders of the Danish Socialist
Party (similar to the English Labor
party and the leading party in Den
mark } stated in circular early in
December that no one could be a mem
ber of the Socialist party who attend
ed any meetings or activities arranged
by anti-democratS or opponents of par
liamentary government, or even where
members of such movement were
present.
X \ X
Until few months ago, news from
Denmark was comparatively plentiful
but now each week it is becoming
Scarcer and what does come out is
more disquieting The Swedish paper
Nya Norrland, says I'VE know less to-
day about what happens in Denmark
that we know about Norway, but one
thing is certain-Denmark is no longer
in control of it's own administration of
justice, and this fact throws light on
actual events"
The Swedish paper thus confirms
what is learned from authentic sources
that the GestapO in Denmark is con-
tinuing secret arrests of sO-called
Communists" who, as another Swed-
ish paper points out, seem to include
members of the Conservative party.
The Gestapo is said to have 60 or 70
prisoners in its part of the West
Prison of Copenhagen.
The Danish Minister of Justice has
threatened to resign if this goes on,
and the police have protested sharply,
to which the Germans have given no
answer. They have undoubtedly real
lied that Danish arrests were made
less to punish saboteurs than to pro-
tect them from the protectors"
X X x
In December the Danish papers
Borsen and Politiken as we'll as others
demanded information about those who
had been arrested, pointing out that
secrecy gives rise to fantastic rumors.
The German-financed paper, Faedre-
landet ON the other hand, was exult-
ant, expressing the real Nazi point of
view that "Secret arrests will make
for a feeling of insecurity in all who
harbor evil intentions and prevent
them from being made martyrs in the
public eye"
Nevertheless, odd comment on Ger
man justice, the same Nazi paper de-
clarcd itself satisfied that the famous
Danish surgeon, Professor Chiewitz, of
the Finsen Institute, "will be arraigned
before Il Danish Court of Justice, be-
cause this will mean that there can
be no doubt in the public mind as to
the veracity of his confessions"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MIR. MODESTUS

The CoSSackS are coming!
You'd be surprised how long they've
been coming
For over a thousand years; and they
couldn't help it
For they've been living on horseba cE
during a lot of that time
Other times, they have travelled or
Viking ships, and river boats
From some ineXhaustible source, in
the great East and West
They were pretty rough people; and
they took pride in that
They swept in great waves; coming
from the river countries
West and north into the Baltic, by
the Danube, Vistula, Oder, Elbe-
South by the Don, Dnieper, Volga
in the countries of the Don Cossacks-
Out of the Baltic, by the Rhine, por-
tagging to the Mediterranean
Bridging northern, ca astern, and
southern, with same ancient bloods-
In one great swirling pool of human
history.
x X
The COSsacks We're prolific breeds
Peoples of many skills, and weapons,
explorers and traders
Some were terrible in battle; others
famous as merchants and civilizers-
Driven always by terrible energies
they gave greatly to Asia and Europe
Tanning wild horses in Turkey; tear
ing up irrigation systems elsewhere
Tanning wilder rivers in the Dnieper
and other valleys
Tearing bowels out of mountains, to
make muscles of steel
Ripping up terrible steppes, to rob
them of their crops of grain
Clamping harness of discipline upon
tempers hitherto ungovernable-
Those who came on Arab horses,
winged with the wind, with flashing
scimitars-
While transforming Amazons into
artists, nurses, scientists, statesmen
And these are the Cossacks, swarm
ing from behind the Urals-
Charley Lindberg overlooked them
Hitler had never heard that they
could, and would, fight
Those German General Staff officers
found wild horses
Changed into wilder and more ter
rible wild horses of flying steel
Whose flying sQuadrons swOop from
Leningrad to Caucasus
With equal ease challenging maps
of Rome on Tiber and Berlin ON
Rhine
Whence this cauldron of power?
Scientists say, that no power is ever
dissipated-
That no focus of energy ever es-
capeS the basic controls
That, working through and among
all these rently wayward
comets
Centripetal spirals drive toward
their common centerS-
Reaching out fingers of salvation
from draughting tables
Whence deep-welling fountains issue,
lifted from sources intangible
Tossing back into eternity forgotten
chemical elements
Healing salts, which Kaiser Will
helm and Schickelgruber forgot
Or discounted because of atrophied
faculties
x X x
Those CoSSacks-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
UNION WOMEN AID PROGRAM

Washington, II. among the 20
100000 women in 81 United States or
ganizationS who cooperate with the
|. :. Office of The Coordinator of
lnter-American Affairs to aid the
good will" program among the Amer
icaS, trade union women play IA lead
Ing role. The National Women'S Trade
Union League is one of 81 key women 5
organizations which are serving as
channels for Information on inter
American affairs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
NUTRITION COUNCILS LAUDED

New York City GLNS) - Hailing
the joint union nutrition councils set
up in some cities for war workers,
Miss Melva Bakkie, Red Cross nutri-
tion service director urged that unions
arrange for group training in food
management in cooperation with Red
Cross chapters. The Red Cross classes
are open to union and auxiliary mem
bers, and in many areas are held in
union halls, she said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
CIGARETTES FOR SOLDIERS

Baltimore Md - Local Union No.
lOl, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and JoinerS of America recently sent
two million union-made Raleigh cigar
cites to L. :. troops overseas. Unions
throughout the nation are now follow
ing the lead of the Baltimore union
and sending Raleighs to men in the
armed services.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
DROP IN NEW YORK STRIKES

New York City ULNS).-The State
Board Of Mediation closed the year
1912 with only one active strike on its
calendar. This strike involved 9S
workers.
In 1912 there were before the board
a total of 191 strikes involving 1857
workers, as against 476 strikes involv-
ing 65,1SS in 1871.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28

SO long as we held fast to voluntary principles
and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit
of service, we have sustained our forward progress
and we have made our labor movement something
TO be respected and accorded a place in the coun-
ellis of our Republic No lasting gain has ever
come from compusion. If we seek to force, we but
tear apart that which, otherwise, is invincible-
Samuel Gompels.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
w H A T MEX T?

Tailored protective clothing for
women welders styled according to
accepted dressmaler patterns, is
now being sold. Made of chrome
tanned cOwhide, the new apparel
is light in weight, yet gives posi-
tive protection against sparks, the
manufacturer states. A leather
cap, looking somewhat like bath
ing cap, completes the outfit.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28

When ones nose is held to the grind
stone, one can see nothing but the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
THE
CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little Hatche'
We Tell the Truth about NAM
Things, Sometimes Profoundly.
Sometimes FIippanfly ana
Sometimes Recklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28
WIS D o M

LaT every time you feel
tickled, and laff once in a while
anyhOw.-JOsh Billings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28

. EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
q. DALE, JAMES
OPERATIVES L. MHEATLEY VIM E. YOUNG EDWARD SEYF1ERT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28

President James NJ Duffy O. Box g. East Liverpool Ohio
BankB Building, New
Hull Huntington
Calf.
Saven. Mills
PeentCharles Zimmer Ohio
Newbon
New
pool Ohio
Seventh Vice PresidentChaes Jordan Virginia
Sebring
Newell
poole
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-28

Those CoSSa ckS-
Still are
COMING.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
SMALL BUSINESS:
Total War Casualty?

Economists had long been aware
of the wars menacing impact on
American small business, but their
statistical discourses attracted lit
tie public notice. It remained for
vocal Secretary of Interior Harold
L. Ickes to dramatic the little busi-
ness mans plight when he declared
that the country now faces "the bru-
tai fact that the war can be the final,
crushing blow to small business"
Pointing out that "the major por-
ton of war production contracts are
going to a few large corporations,
Mr.. Ickes told the senate small busi-
ness committee that "should the
small business man go, we all will
60"
Mr.. Ickes warned that 1--WE must
guard against the loss of our tradi-
tional freedom of enterprise, a loss
that would result in creating a die
tatorship by few corporations and
cartels over our jobs
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
PAY-AS-YOU-GO:
Tax Gets GO-Ahead

It had been clear that official
Washington from Capitol Hill to the
White House had agreed that a pay
as-you-go income tax was the most
effective means of raising the multi
billion revenue needed to help de-
fray war costs.
How to apply the levy to the ma
tons 35,000,000 taxpayers and what
yardstick to use had been the SUBJ
ject of numerous recommend dations.
The treasury department gave its
support to a bill by Sen. Bennett
Clark for a new 10 per cent with
holding tax. Added to the prevail
ing 5 per cent Victory tax this would
mean a total of "a per cent with
held from payrolls.
Under the Clark program the pay
as-you-go plan would be inaugurated
March Is. The taxpayer would file
his income tax return on that date
and pay his first quarterly 1943 taxes
on the basis of his 1912 income. The
withholding tax would then be effec-
tive on weekly or monthly pay
checks, as well as on income from
interest and dividends.
Persons not on payrolls such as
farmers, independent business men,
professional people and others could
pay their taxes on monthly or
quarterly basis.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
SULLIVAN BROTHERS:
A Tale of Heroisn,

The five Sullivan brothers Of World
War II promised to become as cele-
brated in American annals as the
five Bixby brothers Of the Civil war,
irnniortalized by Abraham Lincoln's
letter to their mother.
Not yet was it known whether the
Sullivan boys were dead or alive,
but navy communication to their
parents in Waterloo, Iowa, ominous-
ly reported them missing in ac-
tion." The brothers joined the navy
to avenge friend slain at Pearl
Harbor. They were shipmates at
their own request and were believed
casualties of the cruiser Juneau sunk
in the November battle for the Solo
mons.
The Sullivan brothers are George
T., 20, gunner's mate second class;
Francis H., rs, coxswain; Joseph E.,
%, seaman, second class; Madison
A., %, seaman second class; and
Albert L., 30, seaman, second class.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
on Die
Opinions Vary on Success
OF Mexican Labor Plans
West, Southwest Farmers Reported 0biecting
to Minimum Wage Clause; Many Prefer
Familiar 1Padrone' System.
BY BAUKHAGE
Nesos Analyst and Commentator.

their money in planting the long
staple cotton the government wants.
Neither Senator Downey's office
nor Senator McFarland's had any
comments on the padrone system.
Then / talked with a department
Of agriculture official. He was of
the opinion that the contracts had
worked out fairly well, and he point
ed out that there was an eide
ologicar' as well as a practical OBJ
lection on the part Of the farmers
to the contract-the objection to es-
tablishing minimum wage for farm
labor.
Here are three quite different view
points. They represent tiny frac-
tion of the tangle which Washington
has to untangle, has to reconcile.
If Washington is a madhouse, who
made it mad?
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
FOOD PRICES:
Index Up 43 Per Cent

Skyrocketing retail prices Of fresh
fruits and vegetables, whose cost is
not controlled by the OPA, were
largely responsible for an increase
of 43 per cent in the food cost index
since August, 1899, the month be-
fore World War II began, according
to summary released by Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins.
Even since the price control law
began to operate last spring, Mrs.
Perkins said, retail food prices have
gone up because of the increases in
the cost of items still uncontrolled.
The index in December was 9 per
cent above last May and II per cent
above December, 1941, the month
the United States entered the war.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
ROAD TO TOKYO:
Mired by Rains

The road to Tokyo was begged
down by tropical rains that turned
fighting Allied sectors in New Guinea
into swampy mires, but in the air
American and Australian command
ers broadened their air offensive
against the Japanese with raids on
four main bases.
On the Allied air calling list were
Madang and Finschaven on the
northern New Guinea coast. Flying
Fortresses supported by medium
bombers and fighter planes struck
likewise at Lac and Salamau. In
the Lac area 100 miles up the east
ern New Guinea coast from Allied
held Buna, large fires were started
among barges, stores and harbor
installations.
In the Solomons, the plight of the
Jap garrisons had grown more se-
rious as efforts to land extensive
supplies had been baked by Ameri-
can air power. The navy DEPART
ment reported that a three-day Of
fensive on Guadalcanal island had
progressed satisfactorily, with sew
eral Jap positions isolated and
awaiting destruction. Air raids
were continued against Munda is
land.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29

activities, called for more belt-tight-
ening and announced that burdens
on the home front can and will be
increased"
General Dietmar said that wheth-
er they like it or not, Germans
would have to put up with new re-
strictions to provide more troops.
He admitted that the Russians had
broken through German lines on the
southern front, and that the situa-
tion was becoming serious. "The
need has come for still greater hard
ships at home," he said, "to in.'
crease the flow of recruits to the
'front.'"
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
NAVY MAIL:
To Be Speeded

Because the problem of mail de-
iveries to men in the navy, marine
corps and coast guard has been
complicated by the vast increase in
personnel, the navy department an
nounced that two rules would be
placed in effect Immediately to in
sure prompt service:
Parcel post packages must weigh
not more than five pounds and meas
ure not more than Is inches in
length and SO inches in length and
girth combined. Inappropriate Sec
ond and third class matter such as
advertising circulars would not be
forwarded to men overseas.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
Genuine Fake

For a decade after 1920, Alceo
Dossena, an Italian sculptor, SO
cleverly initiated the works of old
masters that, unknown to him, un-
scrupulous dealers sold many of
them as genuine, says Golfers.
After the expose, Dossena became
famous and his limitations were
eagerly sought.
At an auction of his work in
New York in 1888, every purchas-
er requested and received GER
tificate from the Italian govern
ment guaranteeing each piece to
be a genuine fake"
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
FIFTH OFFENSIVE:
Launched by Reds

To the four Russian offensives
that had Jared the Nazis loose from
thousands Of square miles of dearly
won territory was added fifth that
appeared to be the supreme Red
winter effort. Voronezh - strong
point on the 1,000-mile Soviet line
from Moscow to the Black Sea-
was the springboard of this drive
and it was the German high COM
mand itself which made the first
announcement to the world.
Significance of the Voronezh Of
fensive was that it faced the al
ready hardpressed Nazis with dou-
BILE threat. Red forces from Voro-
nezh could turn due south to join
the other offensives aimed at Ros-
TOW, or could drive westward to-
ward Kursk and Kharkov in the Up
per Ukraine and menace the Nazi
hold on this world-famous granary.
Significant, too, was the fact that
the Russians held the initiative. It
was the Germans who were on the
defensive, who must conjecture
where the Reds would strike next
and had costly alternatives thrust
on them.
In all other theaters the Russians
were pressing their newly gained
advantages, reoccupying areas in
the Caucasus, whiting down Ger
man resistance near Stalingrad and
engaging vast Nazi forces in the
lower Don river reaches.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
AIR TEMPO:
Allied POsUer Rises

Prophetic of what was yet to come
Allied airplanes continued to ride
the skies and shower destruction on
Axis-held European and Mediterra-
mean areas. III
Hitler's armory in the Ruhr val
ley was the target Of repeated bomb
ings. Lille, locomotive manufacture
ing center Of northern France, ex-
perienced cutting raids. On the
route, also were Abbeville and St.
Omar near the British channel coast
Of France.
In the Mediterranean, Allied
bombers were active both on the is
land bases serving Axis troops and
on the African mainland itself. Med
iterranean attacks were made on
Crete, Sicily and Lampedus. Afri-
can raids were made on HONS, near
Tripoli and between Sousee and Sfax.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
BRIEFS BY Baukhage

The ships being built in American
shipyards today have more speed,
greater fuel economy than the ships
built in the First World war. The
speed increase means that three Of
these will "outrun" four old ones.
The Red Cross has designated the
week of January 1924 as the Second
Red Cross Benefit week of the Bowl
er's Victory Legion.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
WAR PRODUCTION:
No Self .Congratulation'

War production and manpower
management have alternately been
subjects for national praise and
blame. The latter was the theme
Of report laid before congress by
the Tolan committee, which charged
general maladministration," chap
hazard handling and failure to use
small industry in the war effort. The
committee had been at work for a
number Of months studying war OUT
put.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29

"An Idle Ship Is a Crime Against
the Public Interests. $50 reads q
sign over the door Of John H. Lof-
land, Co-ordinator Of Ship Repair
and Conversion.
Officers Of ships sailing the inland
waters of the United States are u
censed to sail their ships ON river
where no ships sail-the Red River
Of the North.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29

NEW HAVEN: Yale's historic
campus became place of marching
commands and shouted commands
when the army air force technical
command school established its big
gest cadet training school here for
men who win keep Uncle Sans
planes In condition to fly and do pho
tographic and communications work
necessary to plot'their way. 5000 Of
dcer candidates viii be quartered.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
IGHLIGHTs s. in the week. ns~.

LONDON: King George signed .
proclamation lowering from 20 to 10
the age at which women are liable
TO be drafted for national service.
Single women born between July
and December 81, 1922, win have
the privilege sof choosing between
work in war industry and the uni
form services, or they may Nplun-
teer for nursing, before being called
up tor national war work.
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
NAZI HOME MORALE:
Signs of Strain

Volumes had been written by AL
lied commentators about the state of
the German home front since the
Russ offensives, but two brief state
ments by high Nazi officials revealed
the enormously heartening fact that
Reich morale had at least begun to
creak.
The Nazi officials were DR.. Paul
Joseph Goebbels, propaganda min
lister, and Gen. Kurt Dietmar, a
leading German military critic.
Writing in the magazine Das
Reich, Goebbels denounced civilian
"sluggards" for impeding Nazi war
The midland journal., 1943-01-29
NORTH AFRICA:
Var Us. Politics

AS French forces broke the lull
In North Africa's stalemated war by
capturing q number Of passes on
the road to the Tunisian seaport Of
Sousse, so, too, it appeared that the
French had moved effectively to end
the political strife that had ham,
pered all-out action against the Axis.
The importance Of the French
drive toward Sousse was that it
threatened the Axis land supply
routes for operations in central and
southern Tunisia.
On the political front Harold Mac
MILAN, British minister for North
Africa, predicted an agreement be-
tween Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, leader Of the
Fighting French, would remove most
Of the Objectionable features In the
present administration of North
Africa.
A three-way conflict Of interests
had ragged since the American in
vasion. On one side stood the Lib
erals and Republicans, who had well
coined the Americans. On the other
stood the Vichyites and Fascists. In
between were the Royalists, at
tempting to capitalize ON the battle.