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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29
MARCH IA TO APRIL p0


Aries-Excellent day for men
tai and physical work. Authors,
journalists. secretaries; confden-
tial and diplomatic assignments
among many greatly sponsored.
Skill will be rewarded in all en-
deavOrs.
APRIL FL TO MAY 20
ToUus-Friendly outside in
fuences; start eheerfully your
self and know that you can
accomplish anything worth while
you sturdily undertake. All sub
stantial work should move for
ward.
MAY Fl TO JUNE 2f
Gemihi - Government inter-
ests, employment generally, pro-
motion, advancing in all useful
endeavors highly favored. Build
ing, engineering, farming under
benefc influences.
JUNE % TO JULY %
Concer-Your planet (Moon)
and Sun in favorable aspects,
presage opportunities, helpful
influences all round. Make every
minute count with worthy action.
JULY p TO AUG. %
Leo-You can advantageously
finish work already started or
undertake new projects. A great
day honest endeavor, confer
ences, plans, military strategy,
cooperation between manage
ment and labor.
AUG. % TO SEPT. p
Prgo-Mental powers, intui-
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Rod. Teaching, study, analyz-
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Libra - Fresh opportunities,
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vancement in your occupation.
Seek favors, try for new rec
ords laid your organization. coun-
try. Again we stress, it pays to
cooperate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29
Red Cross Home
NURSING Classes

A NEW 12-hour course in
Home Nursing is being offered
by the Red Cross TWo-hour
classes will be held twice A
week 50 that The course will be
completed quickly. Early regis
tration Is advisable. Please call
FitZroy 5000 10 enroll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29

CLEVER this Pattern
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"A, 46. as and 30. Size 80 takes
4 yards 35-inch fabric.
This pattern, together with a
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and decorative motifs for linens
and garments. 20 cents.
Send 20 cents in coins for
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Write plainly size, name and
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Only Is cents more brings you
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Send your order TO the Anne
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i225 Times Square, Detroit 81,
Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29

By Frances Drake

Look the Section Which Your Birthday and Find
What Your Outlook Is, According 10 the Stars,
For rFyid1y. June 80 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29

And finally, increase amount of
Friskies in successive feelings,
meanwhile reducing the amount Of
his former food, until he's on a
Fnskies diet See package for COT
rect amount.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29

There is no spray or dust for
this pest. Lay pieces of board
on the soil around the plants
and collect each morning and
kill the bugs that go un Ter
them. This is an important pest
because plants injured by il wilt
and die.
The squash borer is a white
sort OF worm or grub nearly an
inch long that burrows into the
vines, causing a sudden whiting
of the vine. Look for the en-
trance holes near the base Of
the runners. Sometimes the
giveaway is a yellowish excre-
ment dropping from the hole.
When the point OF attack has
been found, slit the side of the
stem with a razor blade and
either puncture the borer or dig
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-29
Pumpkin
Pests
Detroit Time. Garden Editor


SQUASHES AND pumpkins
have the same pests so we
might just as we'll talk about
the two crops at the same time,
Probably the prize pest of these
% is the squash bug, also
Valled the stink bug. This is
fiat backed and browniSh, about
" of an inch long.
1t appears in clusters on fruit
and on runners. The eggs are
often found in clusters on the
leaves. They are shiny brick-red
and houl d be destroyed i'm
n,ediately if discovered as it is
easier to kill the eggs than TO
kill the insects.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
Abolish The Electoral
College

one OF the things progressive forces in the United States should
combine to do after the war is to work for the adjustment of 4o
electoral college. The electoral college is a relic from the first dave
OF our Republic. 1t is said that George Washington was mainly resnons
lOe 10 It's adoption, his purpose being to prevent the development ~
ponIeal parties, of which he seems to have had a horror. Although tho
plan w adopted, it never worked as he thought Or hoped il would for
political parties sprang up while he was still in office and yer With
us WI Cabinet, and beginning with the election of his successor
ohn Adams, every Presidential election has been O n the basis of nartu
division. FV
The electoral college system, however, remains with IS 10 this dav
M useless and outmoded-and dangerous-as it is. it is under tMs
Una we supposedly elect the two highest executives in the LAM
every tour years We say supposedly elect because actually we 10 NOT
ote' tor a President and Vice President of the United States but for
& group OF electors" who, theoretically are pledged, o al least SIM.
posed 10 as their votes in accordance with the wishes of the maortv
OF the voters in their State. However, there is nothing in the law To
conpel these electors to vote in accordance with the popular vota in
nell State-they may be elected on the assumption that thew viii cm+
vote in the electoral college held in December following the epc
tn tor candidate Smith, but nothing can prevent them from voting for
candidate Jones instead, or for anyone else who meets the consttn.
uonal requirements as to citizenship, age, etc. This has annened in
mee PRESIDENTIAL elections already, and could happen again. thwartinp
the will of the people.
mere has been a number of attempts made to rid the nation of this
dangerous-syStem, but nothing has ever o Of
tnem- Even now Congressman Emanuel CelIer of New York has a hill
pendlng IN Congress which he introduced on June 18th of this vaar
lhe purpose o which is to amend the Constitution to provide for dract
elecIons by the people instead of the indirect electoral college method
fts bH-House Joint Resolution 297-seems doomed to die with tbo
passing OF the present Congress at the end of this year but he will
prooaDyr enc 1T IN the new Congress which convenes in January
M gwen enough popular support it coult pass.
once every voter realizes that the amendment provided for in HI,
pl IS vital TO ne perpetuauon of our democratic form of government
II Will gt That popular support-The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
Labor Is a National Problem
In Appealing to Legislatures to Strengthen State Laws,
katherine LenrOot Is Following the Wrong Path

We don't like to take issue with Katherine Lenroot, chief of the
Childrens Bureau. We certainly don't mean to question her devotion
to the childrens of America. However. we feel she is making a serous
tactical mistake. rt, .
Recognizing that the increase in child labor during this war has
been appalling, and fearing that constituencies employers will endaevor
in peace times to continue the exploitation of the little ones, Miss Len
root appeals to the state legislatures, which will convene next January,
TO enact laws establishing minimum standards-no child under 16 to
be employed in manufacturing and other hazardous occupations and the
same limitations to be applied to nonhazardous occupations during
school periods. .g
seu.
No one ar object to those standards. But experience has taught us
that the states will not do the job. Some will establish high standards:
others will insist n miserably low standards. et#
This should not be tolerated because, after all, a child does not
belong to some particular locality or state. 1t is the nations most pre-
'ious asset, and the nation should see that it is not neglected.
authority to pass a Federal child labor law. To meet that situation
1t would have been ratified within a few months if the textile
industry Of the South had not launched one of the most despicable pro-
paganda campaigns in the history of our country.
Nevertheless, at the end of 20 years % states have ratified the
amendment If eight more can be induced to take favorable action, it
will become a part of u Constitution.
Even II the amendment is not ratified, there is every reason to
believe that a strong Federal child labor law would be sustained by the
Supreme Court IS now constituted. In fact, that tribunal has already
reversed the decision which knocked out the Federal child labor law
passed during the Wilson administration.
In view of all these facts, why not follow the straight and sure
path? Instead of asking for the enactment of state laws, why not place
the entire problem before Congress?
Perhaps we should add that .forbidding the employment of children
cloehed and housed. Canadas solution takes the form of family allow
ances. That's good, but a better way would be to increase Dads
wages. Ii tn workers ae given proper pay, they will take ARE of their
families without any help from the state. Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
"EDELWEISS"-THE
FIGHTERS AGAINST
THE HITLER YOUTH

The first signs of the disintegra-
ton of the Nazi regime can be
found in the loss of support among
the youth of the country, espe-
cially those between 1913. This
generation grew up under regi-
mentation and has begun to rebel
against it. Last year a student riot
occurred at the University of Mum
ich which the Gestapo had to quell
by gunfire and the execution of
several students. Gestapo chief
Himmler complained about the
wild boys gangs" that roam the
countryside and beat up Hitler
Youth leaders .
In Vienna this guerilla warfare
against the Hitler youth began
about two years ago and the first
group called itself Edelweiss, That
name has spread throughout Ger
many and it is borne by the groups
of apprentices and young workers
in Hamburg, Leipzig, Hanover,
Bremen, Frankfurt, Essen and
Cologne.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
Improving Social Security Plan

AIthough Brtalns Social security plan is slightly inferior IN
the BeVerldge proposals, it represents a marked Improvement ~ tho
presen system and is vastly better than or own limited program
LIKE le beVerldge plan, the new British proposals attempt TO provide
protection against all types of insecurity, whether resulting from m
environment old age, sickness, motherhood, large families or death
u lit 1arnlly breadW1nner. Provision is also made for a imnrovad
atohal heat service, for training pay for jobless workers. and for
rec mix n meals for school children. Benefits r. on the whole
more Hoeral than at present although somewhat less s1eouata than
nose recommended by Beveridge. No effort is made, IS in the Bever
1ucse plan, TO base benefits and family allowances OF minimum sb.
slseence Sc as ito be certain that every Britsihc child is adequately
nourlshe and provided with the necessities of life. In defending the
decision OF British government to cut family allowances retire
mem pensions, and widows benefits below subsistence levels. the New
horh Zines declares that the danger today. is chiefly of for.
IN efforts of. :. benefits in reducing the incentive 10 find ro
t t WORK. 1t warns also that excessive taxes can reduce the total pro-
ouctlon pom which the welfare of all of us depends" This thesis is
sIu d popular n in extreme reactonary circles in America hut +o
Important C about the British plan is not its concessions to conserv-
economic notions but its full recognition that no modern shte
can rsk the discomfort and misery that arise from undernoursbment
sickness, lack of educational opportunity and secrrn
The Nation. q" '""S
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
NO. 1910.
From Workers TO
Relief Takers

1t has been estimated that in a period of three years after the
war IS over the bill for unemployment relief will be ID billions of
dollars.
That, w e submit, is gloomy forecast. Yet there are many indi-
cations that it is not beyond the probabilities.
We don't konW how many workers remember the public attitude
toward rehef-takers during the dismal decade that ended only when
the waste of war again created an unholy demand for human labor.
But w do. We recall that there were men of prominence who sold"
the idea that the unemployed were loafers who wouldn't work if they
had a job" We remember, too, the reluctance with which relief was
boosted to half way decency-how first the unemployed were given
castof clothing and indgestlble food, how they were forced to work in
winters cold for an additional 5 cents per hour, how they yer kept
from freezing, not by being supplied with coal, but by fuel from a
municipal Woodot.
And we also recall that the unemployed YER browbeaten in their
political life and forced to vote as the dOle-givers dictated by hints and
yelled threats. We remember that because out Of it came the Hatch
Act, which now restricts the political activity of Millions of citizens.
We see the prediction of unemployment relief as a negaion of the
people who will do the giving will be the masters of those who will
be forced to do the taking.
We also se the sour promise of unemployment a a bitter assur-
ahce ma tms Will b masters nation after the workers have served
sacrificed and died to win its war. We say this because
There will be no unemployment in a free world. There would be
only lelsure-and plenty for all if workers were not exploited TO pro-
duce profits for a. owning class-Readng Labor Advocate -
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15

atmosphere that favors the deve-
lopment of fascism in the country.
These results give full justification
to the criticism raised in the u. S.
against Cordell Hull's policy to-
ward Argentina, and on the other
hand gives no support at all to the
liberal and democratic forces
which r still predominant, in
spite of suppression and coercion.
Cordell Hull's policy has not
been characterized by its demo
cratic gestures. His support of Oar
Ian and Giraud against the resist
ance movement of the French peo-
pie; the protection accorded the
Italian monarchy; his patronizing
attitude toward Franco-these do
not create any faith in the anti
fascist aims of the present Yankee
diplomacy.
In the American continent this
policy expresses itself in the sup
port accorded to Vargas and other
American dictators. 1t is natural,
therefore, that his opposition to the
Argentine dictatorship should not
inspire any confidence. The Yam
kee government has done nothing
to encourage the democratic ele-
ments in this country, and its be-
lated attitude toward FarrelrS
government favors the latter, as it
stimulates n~ationalistic passions.
Against the reactionary policy OF
the plutocracy and of our native
nationalism, we must reaffirm the
fraternity of all free peoples. -
(From The Call.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15

the emaciated people of the capital,
and Labor battalions are being
sent to collect food in Banat and
other liberated parts of Serbia" for
the capital. Prices for food have
been fixed by the executive COM
mittee, coal supplies are beginning
to reach the city, almost half of
the electric utilities are already
functiohing, some st~reetcars were
put back into operation, repairs of
private and government building
started, with the youth of
Belgrade willingly volunteering
for cleaning up the debris, while
the streets are becoming more live
ly and markets are beginning to
fill with goods, the broadcast re
lated.
A November z broadcast by the
Jugoslav radio, as reported to Owl,
revealed that the capitals cine
mas have reopened showing Soviet
films to capacity audiences. Long
queus stand in front of all open
cinemas and all performances are
accompanied with great manifesto
tins the broadcast said, adding
that the shows are free"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
PEACE LOVERS

Under the domination Of the Big
Three, plans are being drawn up
for a postwar peace organization.
Membership will be open to peace
loving nations" Which are the
peace loving nations? Here's the
historical record of the relation
ship the United States has had with
Great Britain and Russia:
During the French and Indian
War (1775) America sided with the
British. During the Revolutionary
War (1776) America was against
the British. In the War of 1912 the
United States was against the Bri-
fish. During the Civil War 1851
1860 United States opposed the
British. In the Russo-Japanese War
(1904) United States sympathized
with the Japanese. During World
War / (1914) the United States
sided with the British and Rus-
SLAMS. In the Bolshevik Revolution
(191O United States was opposed
to the Russians. At the beginning
of World War II (1939) United
States sympathized with the Bri-
fish and was opposed to the Rus
slams. In 1941 the United States
sided with the Russians as against
the Firms. With the entrance of
United States into World War III
United States became an ally of the
British and Russians.-The Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
MONARCHICAL
SOCIALISM IN. ITALY?

Crown Prince Umberto, Lieute-
nant General of the Realm, seems
to be a shrewd monafch; he is
moving leftWard with the Italian
masse. He told Herbert L. Mat
theWs of the N. Y. Times that he
finds Communist Togliatti Clever,
agreeable, and easy to discuss
problems with"
THE Prince spoke pleasantly
about communism, socialism, and
Italy" Matthews reported; Italian
Communists ARE not at present
anti-monarchist." Umberto saw no
reason why Italy cannot go left
ward under a monarchy, like the
monarchies of England, Sweden,
Norway, and Denmark"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
Disease Checked In Armed Forces

AS we have repeatedly stated in the past, the medical profession
mas done a grand job in this war. Take these figures giving the results
OF a survey just made by a Washington newspaper in the District of
Columbia:
During the last wa 9O361 District men Registered for h draft
In this war the total went up to 2O3, 1O7.
In this war 478 District men have been killed by the enemy. In the
last war the District lost only LAG.
80 ia the showing is in favor of the last war, but consider this
additional fact In this wa only 81 District men have died from disease
and accidents II the first World War 513 District lei ded q disease
mus N total losses in the last war were greater than in this war
aHnough thst time more than twice is many men ar in uniform ane
that is due to the fact that he have checked disease in a score q wavs
Sometimes we criticize the medicos for their opposition to q ma
program which would insure proper care for all-rich and
alke-but, nevertheless, we take or hats off to them for what thew
are doing to safeguard our fighting lads.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
Who Is To Control Natural Resources?
By SCOTT NEARING

Recent news stories reported a
Soviet request for an oil concession
in northern Iran. The press on
Oct. ID carried a statement of the
Iran government refusing to con-
slider the matter until after the
war. This episode brings to the
fore n of the most important
economic issues facing the peoples
of Europe: Who is to control
natural resources?
Oil is one of the strategic ma
tural resources. Those who control
oil reserves hold the key to pro-
duction and military
Oil reserves are unequally dis
tributed in Europe. Practically the
whole of west and middle Europe
is oil-less. 1t Is in east Europe,
around the Black Sea and Caspian
Sea that the oil reserves lie. The
oil territory also extends into
Arabia, Mesopotamia and Iran.
European oil production before
World War II began gives a good
idea of distribution of oil
The figures are from the Statisti-
cal Year Book of the League of
Nations for 1938-39.
Production of Crude Petroleum
and Shale Oil 1888
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15

Prewar control of European oil
reserves was chiefly in Soviet
hands, with Roumania ~(largely
British) the important secondary
factor. The Anglo-American oil
agreement (1944) aimed to dispose
of the Arabian oilfields on terms
satisfactory to both parties and
thus avoid American monopoly of
the oil in Saudi-Arabia. In Meso-
potamia and Iran oil eserv con-
troll was chiefly British.
Soviet-British joint occupation
of Iran as a mareuver to check the
Nazis gave the Soviet government
a virtual sphere of influence in
northern Iran while the British re-
tanned their sphere in southern
Iran.
During the past three months
the Red Army has occupied Rou-
mania and a substantial part of
Poland. Moscow comedies indie
pendence to both countries, but in
sists that the government set up
there shall be friendly to the
Soviet Union.
Results of such a policy, in terms
of oil reserves: USSR, including
Estonia, and friendly governments
of Roumania and Poland, will con-
troll $40 of the areas from which
prewar Europe produced oil. In
short, the Soviet Union will be the
oil producer of Europe. If, in addi-
ton, the Soviet Union can secure
oil reserves in western Asia its
position will be correspondingly
strengthened.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
$780, 900 MEMBERS is
OF HEALTH PLAN
Will Soon Do Annual Business
OF $4,000, 600, Mayor f. III.

OF $4,000, 900, Mayor f. III.
LaGuardia Predicts
NEW YORK. - Over 1900. 900
members and an annual turnover
of SIS, 900, 00-that is the three
year goal of the Health Insurance
Plan of Greater New York vision
ed by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, who
is largely responsible for creating
the organization.
Every person in Greater New
York whose income does not ex-
ceed $4,000 is eligible for member
ship and to receive medical serv-
ice of every kind. Subscribers will
pay 2 per cent of their annual sala-
ries, or wages, and their employers
r expected to contribute an equal
amount.
One of the main tasks of the or
~ganization, Mayor LaGuardia said
this week, will be to secure CO.
operation of the five hostile medi-
cal societies.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
BELGRADE RECOVERING
WAR WOUNDS

Neutrality-suspicious. the tu-
telage of the National Liberation
Committee for Serbia, Mihailo Rat
kovic-Solar was appointed mayor
of Belgrade and chairman Of an
executive committee for the civil
ian administration of the city's af-
fairs, until regular elections can
be held, the Free Jugoslavia radio
said in a recent broadcast reported
to OWL.
The new cabinet headed by Rat
kovic Immediately started the re-
organization and reconstruction
of a badly ruined Belgrade, the
broadcast said.
Belgrade's newspaper "Politika"
has resumed publication, the
broadcast said, and appeared in its
former size. The first issue feat
ured the speech Tito made to liber-
ated Belgrade, and statements by
Lieut.. Gen. Koca Popovic and
Lieu. Gen. Petko Dapcevic, who
led the Jugoslav units in the battle
for Belgrade. Later issues carried
an article by DIR. Ivan Ribar, pres
ident of AVNOJ, the broadcast re-
lated, and the people greeted the
appearance of "Politika" with
great JOY and scramble to get CO.
pies of the paper"
A November 3 broadcast by the
Free Jugoslavia radio revealed that
foodstuffs are being distributed to