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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-07

Y.D.1. PLANS: We now know, from
an impeccable source, what President
Roosevelt plans to do when he leaves
the White House. He wants to raise
and breed Sootties professionally.
And he intends to breed them chiefly
for personality. Like Fala. The only
detail cur friend failed to get was
the date when F.D.R. plans to begin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-06
20 YEARS AGO fME tyfm EMPIRE
DECEMBER 6, 1924


 DECEMBER G., visiting Pacific Northwest Seattle fill under the City Dock which the Cold situated.
 Forty attended the dance the previous night given by the Eagles in Douglas.
 Heenhal returning to Juneau the Alaska The Bremen play the High School and the Coega were basketball this night in A. B. Hall Gov Scott Bone in his annual report urged that the S5oooo Capitol Building available Whittier of the Chamber of Commerce issued report showing the previous 
 Vera wyss violns, spickett Palace.
 Agnes Ayres Coliseum Theatre in "A Daughter of Luxury"
 Weather report: High temperature, low 32 clear
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special act instructing that court to render judgment in the Pope case in conformity with directions given in the act Mir. Pope had once before taken his demands for extra compensation for the building of tunnel as part the District of Columbia water system to the Court of Claims. In part his claim denied by the court Congress more lenient It instructed the court to render new judgment in accord with a carefully prescribed formula quite out of line with what the court had previously decided The court refused to comply the ground that the special act of Congress unconstitutional
 In effect the Court of Claims is now chastised for laying too much emphasis on its own dignity. Through Chief Justice Stone the Supreme Court says that the special did not set aside the judgment of the Court of Claims and order trial of the issues previously decided Rather, Congress created new obligation of the Government to pay the peti- tioner's claims where no obligation existed before There is nothing in the Constitution to forbid that choice to Congress. It is at liberty to pay claims against the Government whether or not those claims are legally binding.
 The decision reemphasizes the broad control of Congress over the public purse. So far power is concerned, Congress may not only pay claims denied by the Court of Claims it may also the machinery of that court for final determination of such claims according to formulas that lays down. The wisdom of following such a practice quite another matter Without in any way passing judgment on this par ticular think that, as general rule, claims would be more reasonably and satisfactorily settled if Congress to follow rigid practice of letting judgments of the Court of Claims stand Our National Legislature has time to settle hundreds of claims against the Government fairly and equitably. It cannot time to hear and evauate all the evidence in such Now that the question of powers has been properly settled, we hope that Congress will provide a satisfactory means of finally settling claims against the Government outside of it's own halls.
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Washington Merry Go-Round

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HOROSCOPE "The Stdrs incline
 bat do not compel"
THURSDAY, DECEMBER

THURSDAY, DECEMBER '
 Conflicting pla etary aspects control today which may be men, tally depressing in way that em- phasizes war weariness.
 HEART AND HOME: The stars encourage household activities and holiday preparations. Labor comes under favorable influences. Much entertainment of strangers is fore- cast as distinguished foreigners will visit the United States.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Wise di- rection of reconversion to peacetime business is forecast. Haste in for mulating postwar programs is urged by the seerS, who foretell sudden and unexpected events that demand speedy action on the home front
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Since war has proved what wonders can be accomplished by the coordination of national effort, the reed for sweeping reforms in city govern ments is likely to be widely recog- nized, astrologers predict. Wide spread economies are recommended to assure generous spending for civic betterment.
 ! INTERNATIONAL REPAIRS: Jerusalem and the Holy Land will draw extraordinary attention dur ing the Christmas season. Unrest among the Arabs will threaten fu- ture uprisings and forces will compel changes in the pattern of British diplomacy which favoS them.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good fortune and great happiness. Changes should be made with caution.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be impulsive and ener- getic. Liable to accidents, they should be especially careful when working with machinery. Copyright, l944)
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CHINESE WIVES

Speaking of wives, it is dis tinction in China to have more than one wife, as this writer found when travelling across the Gobi Desert with three ladies in a manner which they never permitted him to forget. The three ladies were: Mrs. George Langhorne of Manila, Miss Helen Van Sant of Chicago and my own honest-to goodness wife.
 We travelled in a car hired from the Soviet Government, which op- erated the only motor line between Urga, the capital of Mongolia, and Kalgan near the edge of Northeast China. There are no roads acroBs the Gobi and it is rough, tough travelling On about the second day, we got to the border between Inner and Outer Mongolia--a little col lection of mud huts and felt yurts under the broiling sun-where the
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Chinese zone ended and the Rus sian began.
 There, border police informed us we would require special visa to go further, As the only male in the party, I went up to see the Commissar of Police. He proved to be a crotchety Mongol squatting inside a felt yurt. He told me in broken Russian that he would have to telegraph Moscow before we could advance farther.
 How long would that take?" asked.
 Maybe three days, maybe three weeks
 I had visions of our camping in the mid Gobi for weeks. But the ladies would not accept the sad news. They insisted on seeing the Commissar of Police themselves.
 Inside the yurt, they offered him a silk handkerchief, chocolate, sugar, cigarettes. He seemed to think the chocolate might be poison. Finally, however, he took out his paint brush and painted in Chinese characters a passport, which later worked wonders. It took us straight through to Urga.
 Later, we had the passport trans lated. It read. Good for one pas sage to Urga for Pearson and three wives"
 In China, man with two wives is very rich. A man with three is both rich and powerful.
 Copyright, 1944, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
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The Supreme Court clarified important point by it's decision in the Allen Pope recently With
 dissent it instructed the Court of Claims that it was mistaken in supposing that Congress en- croaching upon it's judicial powers when it passed a
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CORRECTIONS

Last week, this column stated that Major Melvin Douglas, movie actor husband of New Congress- woman Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, was with the U. s. Army in Indiana" This was a typo graphical error. It should have read India" Last week also, it was stated that the wife of Wu Te- Chen, Secretary General of the Koumintang Party of China, was living in Japanese-occupied Shang- hai. It was not made clear, how ever, that Wu has several wives and that the statement did not in any way refer to the first Madame Wu, now and for some time past a resident of New York.
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plan of the same sort had not been beaten at the polls in Oregon last month. Flushing, Angel admit ted it had, but said it was different in scme respects from the Town send plan.
 John Vorys of Ohio then faceti- ously offered ito get more sigma lures for Homer" It was quite ob- vious, however, that there was no burning enthusiasm for the Town send Plan among the Republicans.
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subject and that the ruling from the Attorney General that PAC was legal had helped to steer them away from the subject.
 But we are planning to recom- mend several changes in the Cor rupt Practices Act Brown con- tinued. And I intend to see to 1t that there is an amendment to prevent the sort of activity by labor unions that PAC engaged in"
 Be sure you make it strong enough so that even the Attorney General can't write an opinion to excuse that sort of thing" Noah Mason of Illinois advised.
 There was general agreement among the COP Congressmen that a lot of political capital could be made of the current Administration row between Attorney General Riddle and his busted assistant, Norman Littell.
 Only gripe about Gov. Dewey came from ultra -reactionary Harold Knutson of Minnesota, who com plained about the Los Angeles speech in which Dewey pledged all- out social security and other social legislation.
 He was ut-New-Dealing the New Deal.D fumed Knutson. His gripe, however, was not well re- ceiyed. In fact, most of his mates are a bit fed up with the stiff- necked Knutson.
 Homer Angel of Oregon com- plained because the Democrats have been keeping the Townsend Plan from coming to vote this session. A petition to bring the plan to the floor requires 2l8 sig natures, and the Townsend group has had over 200 for months, with Democrats removing their names when it looked as if the required number would be met.
 August Andresen of Minnesota then pointedly asked Angel if a
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MODERN ETIQUETTE 'y ROBERTA LEE

indicate is either rubbing his hands together, shlfflng his coat? A. must forget absolutely entirely the other present.
 how long time should guest remain after meal9 A. a unless something
 
 obligatory that bride the bridesmaids costumes? No the bride for the bouquets her bridesmaids
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

"Ihe lost, to his misplay" Say his misplay"
 dISPRONOUNCED: Pronounce first as in as n A ASK unsresed
 Cs and Els
 SYNONYMS tnoun), motive
 times and yours Let us Todys word pertaining marriage She and her husband enged
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RUMMAGE SALE

The Sisterhood of the Russian Orthodox Church, Fifth Street, will have a Rur-mage Sale Satur- day, Dec. g, 10 a. m. Adv.
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HOME OWNERS

SEKNICE MEN, BUSINESS MEN
 If you need something you can't buy in Juneau, write us. Lily G. Lewis Shopping Service, 901 9th Ave, Seattle 4, Wash.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24

Every American who wishes to be a free individual in those matters
that are his private concerns, and who would like to stop paying tribute
to a owning class, should be interested in a warning sounded by James
G. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union.
MI. Patton declares that the National Association of Manufacturers
is sponsoring a well financed, nationwide effort to subvert the will of
the whole people" The movement, he believes, has all the characteristics
Of a fascist set-up.
We call attention to Patterns charge, not for the purpose of lam
basting the NAM, but rather to point to a danger that is inherent in the
kind of economy for which most workers persist in voting.
We have repeatedly stated our conviction that the future society
will be n OF Specialization and control If we IN right, then the only
questions to be settled are What" who" and How"
What will be socaized? Will it be the resources of the nation =
the natural wealth which Nature has bestowed upon the American
people? Or will it be the people who are sociahzed in the service of a
master class IS feudal serfs were socialized in the service of their lords?
Who will do the socalizing and control the economy of the nation?
Will it be the National Association of Manufacturers or some other
group of labor exploters with the purpose and foresight and initiative
10 enable them to act? Or will be the workers who take the lead and
control the socaized economy?
How will control be administered Arbitrarily by the same people
who o the wealth and jobs of the nation? Or democratcaHy by
a united and purposeful working class?
There are the important questions for this generation? And we m
fearfully convinced that the mere failure of the working people to act
will not prevent action from being taken. No generation can sit-out
evolution. When a thing must be done it will be done. 1t may be done
economically and by the people n arbitrarily and to the people. But
historical changes won't be delayed by inaction.
If fascism comes to America it will be because the American people
did not act for thenselves-and because they tolerated for too long an
economy based upon class exploitation.
The profit system can't exist much longer without the controls that
-Adolph Hitler set up for its preservation in Germany. We say that now
when workers have jobs and when business has bloody markets The
truth of statement will become apparent to many who, today, ques-
ton it when the jobs disappear and when the markets vanish.
America will have to choose. Then there will be new codes" for the
management of human affairs-codes written and enforced by exploters
- who must act if the workers won't Then will come-SociaIsm or
Fascism!-The Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24
The Socialist Party All Prepared
for its National Convention
1t Will be Held June "a in Reoding, Pa.

Party, will also address the con-
vention.
The Socialist Party convention,
which will be held at the Hotel
Berkshire in Reading. will nomin-
ate candidates for presidential and
vice-presidential office and adopt
the 1914 Socialist Party platform.
As the only independent party in
the field conducting a national
campaign, the Socialist Party will
embark on a nationwide drive to
bring its program before American
voters Immediately after the con-
vention.
The conventions keynote adj
dress, delivered by Maynard c:
Kruger. professor of economics at
the University of Chicago and 1910
vice-presidential candidate, will be
broadcast over the Columbia
Broadcasting System, Friday, June
End. Acceptance speeches by the
nominees will be broadcast over
the Blue Network, Sunday, June
4th 1914.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24
THE MASK is OFF LABOR HATERS
Avery Incident Demonstrates That Smith, Connolly
Act Was Fashioned as Sword to Be Used Only
Against Lobor

The controversy over the seizure of the Montgomery Ward plant at
Chicago bois down to extremely simple issues:
Is property more sacred than the national welfare, and shall a law
which was devised a S a weapon for use against labor and has been used
against workers be left unused against corporate power?
Sewel Avery justiies his defiance of the government with a con-
tention that the plant seizure was a violation of his constitutional
guarantees. That, certainly, is a matter for determination by the courts,
ard in due time it will be settled, to the satisfaction OF the dismay of
Mr. Avery.
But the purse proud pictorial head of the Ward concern was not
willing to take his chances with the court. He conceived himself to be
bigger than the government and took the law into his own hands. His
purpose was to arouse maudln sympathy, and at the same time provide
a club with which to discredit labor laws and to create prejudice and
hostility against labor organizations.
That he has accomplished this result in Congress IS no credit to its
membership. The incident furnished just the opening reactionaries
needed to stage a Roman holiday against labor organizations and agen-
cies which have endeavored to hold the scale even as between employer
and employees.
Only the sober common sense and justice of members of the Senate
and House prevented those bodies from being made a sounding board
tons harken back to the Stone Age. Had rabid labor haters been per-
mitted to have their way, the Investigations of House committees domin-
.ated by Smith of Virginia and the star-chamber proceedings of the Dies
committee.
One thing the Ward hulabanoo has accomplished it has stripped
iniqutous Smith ConnaHy bill.
We now know that the legislation was designed as a sword to be
used always against labor. The moment it was discovered it cuts two
ways, its sponsors and advocates became furious. In their fury they made
statements that lowered the dignity of Congress and tended to destroy
confidence in its integrity. I%%@
And never was mock horror more dismal than in the frantic efforts
of American newspapers to paint Avery as a hero and martyr.
The Philadelphia Record" contrasts their attitude with the equani-
nifty with which the same editorial Pharisees have been able to take in
easy stride the countless occasions OIL which workers in industrial plants
of the country we killed, wounded, gased and dubbed.
They did not write of the Constitution then" the Record" OBJ
serves. They wrote hymns OIL law and order The Constitution, accord.
ing to them, operates only o n one side of the railroad tracks-and not
on that side of the tracks where mere employees lve-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24

NEW YORK, May 15.-Haakon
Lie, secretary of the Norwegian
Federation of Labor, and one of the
leaders of the Norwegian under
ground, will address the national
convention of the Socialist Party,
which will be held in Reading, Pa,
from June 2 to 4, it was announced
today by Harry Fleischman, nation
al secretary of the Socialist Party.
From the ranks of the leaders
of South American labor, Arturo
Velasques, executive secretary of
the Chilean Federation of Workers,
and Juan Arevalo, of the Maritime
Union of Cuba, will present greet
ings from Pan American workers
organizations. Mr.. Velasquez, head
of the Railroad Workers Union, is
Chilean delegate to the Interna-
tional Labor Organization conven-
ton. He is one of the founders of
the Socialist Party of Chile.
Another LILO. delegate, Alojas
Adamchik, of the Polish Socialist
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24

The Philadelphia conference of the / L. @. brings to the United
States Representatives from forty-one nations affiliated to that organ
ization. The delegations are tripartte in character, with two govern
mental and two non governmental members. The non-governmental
delegates ire a representative of employers and a representative of
workers appointed by the government with the most representative
organizations of workers and employers. This basis of organization,
which has its roots in the organization of labor relations, has been most
effective in its application to this wider field of labor problems and
social welfare.
mutual agreement, has been successful in raising the standards of labor
and social welfare OF a world basis and in limiting forced labor. Be
cause it has relied upon service as its method and wisely refused COM
pulsory powers, it has lost little ground n prestige and continues to
function even during this world war.
The LILO, while looking ahead and recommending policies for the
postwar world, asks opportunity to serve in the interim period in which
many adjustments need to be made. The labor force of many European
nations has been taken to Germany to operate Nazi war plants. Large
civilian areas have been bombed. Many people are homeless. Production
facilities, both agricultural and industrial, have been destroyed.
Civilian government must be set up again. Millions of persons must
be repauiated, fed and clothed. Economics must be put into operation
again; plans made for supplying adequate food regularly
The LILO has information that would greatly help the international
agencies responsible for these services and should be accepted in a
liaison capacity. The Office should also have similar relationships with
all international agencies established for special or general economic
or financial purpose. This conference has such proposals before it,
Because this is the distinctive international agency through which
the organized labor movement deals with Governmental problems, labor
is concerned to widen its functions and add to its prestige. Labor of the
United States is equally aware of the need to insure that national labor
movements functoning through this agency shall not constitute an
opportunity for governmental interference in free labor movements,
their validity.
1t is important that the representatives of free labor movements
work out their regulations with respect to the appointment of worker
delegates to the LILO. Unless the labor movement acts, decisions must
be made by governments. Such situations can be used to limit labors
se f-government in unions-AmericanF ederahonit.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24
MRS. JOHN CURTIN
TELLS THEM

Learned Socialism at fathers
Knee: The wife of John Curtin,
Australia's Prime Minister, made
no bones about her interest in labor
and Socialism at a press conference
with women reporters in Washing
ton during her brief visit here in
April. Mrs. Curtin, who has been
n of the leaders of the women's
organization of the Australian La
Dor party, detailed the history of
her activities in labor politics for
the reporters.
Asked what had started her on
a life of active membership in la
Dor parties in Africa, Tasmania,
and Australia, Mrs. Curtin was
brief and to the point: My interest
stems from my fathers discussions.
He was a Socialist"
She expressed pride at the
achievements of women in Aust
traila, who have played a large
part in social reforms. Mrs. Cur
tin said that she had held office
% times in the Australian Labor
Party. AT II she joined a Labor
Party group while living in Africa;
a year later when she went to Tas-
mania, she again joined. She first
met Curtin in her fathers home.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24
Note to the Lodges
of the Educational
Bureau

Anton Garden, who is. Secretary
of the Regional Conference of the
Educational Bureau (Prosvetna ma
tica), sent to the affiliated groups
the following notification:
-
English Speaking Lodges
of P%rosvetna Matica:
Your lodge is hereby cordially
invited TO send one or more repre-
sentatives to the regional confer
ence of ProSvetna Matica (Educa-
tional Bureau, JSF, of which you
are a member. The conference will
convene at 10 A. M, Sunday, June
IS, at the Sostarich Hall, $50 So.
9th ST, Milwaukee.
On the agenda will be problems
arising out of war, and particular
~ the Liberation Front in Jugo-
slavia as well as the coming con-
vention of the Slovene American
National Council which the parti-
SAN of the old Jugoslav regime are
trying to disrupt.
F~raternally yours,
Anton Garden, Secretary,