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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-04

the current attraction and stars
the Cabin Girls appealing har-
mony trio, aided by Smiles and
Smiles. tap dancers; Bobbe Cas-
ton. SongStreSS, Kid Williams,
comedian. Dave Wilborn. master
OF ceremonies; the TayloretteS and
ClarcncNDorSey'S orchestra.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-04

tonight's concert at the Belle
Isle shell.
Graham T. Overgard. director
of the band. has received numer-
Gus requests from the young peo-
pie for such an event and II will
be staged during the concert
bands intermission.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-04
Little. Star Starts

MARGARET O'SRIEN has
started her role as star in Music
for Millions. " Others featured are
June AllySon, Jose Iturbi and
Jimmy Durante.- Joe Pasternak is
the producer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-04
FOX FEATURE
CUTE QUARTET

FMS is the musical which fea-
lures Dorothy Lamour. Betty
Hutton. Diana Lynn and Mimi
Chandler as the four singing Angel
Sisters who can harmonic well to-
gether until band leader Fred
MaeMurray introduces a discord-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-04

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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
DRAFT DODGERS


Draft dodgers haven" that's
how some of the navy's warriors
back from the sea this week de-
scribe the headquarters of the
Third Naval District at 80 Church
street in New York.
Returning naval officers, who
have been through the toughest
kind Of service, are amazed at the
sight they find in these headqaur-
tiers, which they say are filled up
with young men in officers uni
forms.
Many arc declared to be million
aires sons, who hardly know one
end Of a ship from another, but who
have had enough influence to get
sinecures in the service, far from
the Gene of battle.
For the most part they do work
that could be performed by
WAVES, or civilian girl clerks, but
the pleasant berth at headquarters
gives them a chance to parade
about at Manhattan social events in
uniform.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
Let The People Own
a
The CorteIs

We agree with Wendell Berge, assistant attorney general, when he
says that cartels, az they have been established by the moguls Of inter
national capitalism, restrict rather than promote trade and increase
the menace Of unemployment in the postwar world.
We do not agree with the suggestion that the cartel arrangement
be outlawed and abandoned.
We believe international carteS III needed and could be used as
instruments of worldwide progress and peace. About cartels w now say
what the Socialists of the previous generations said about the trusts
Don't bust the trusts but 1et the nation own the trusts" That
was the Socialists demand during the reign of Teddy Roosevelt.
And now we say -
Don't bust the carteS, but let the people w the cartels.
By organizing cartels within which they could cooperate to their
mutual PRIVATE advantage the capitalist exploners of the worlds lead
ing nations advanced their interests.
BY owning the trusts at home and matchmaking them with the
economy of other nations the people can promote the general welfare
and preserve international peace.
Ownership is the crux of the matter. Owned privately, industries
large and small, are out to prey upon the public and to compete against
each other. Owned collectively, as Socialists want them to be, industries
would function to give public service and would be able to cooperate
to that end.
Under private control great economic power is cenered in the
hands of a few people who become the potential rulers of the world.
Under social ownership and control the larger the industry and the
greater its scope the more security and freedom would be possible for
mankind.
Fascism is a fact in many spots of the world today and a growing
fear everywhere because people have tolerated for too long an economy
that simply does not fit with democracy. Socialism would free the race
from the economic serfdom which the capitalist privateproft economy
imposes upon humanity. And without economic freedom n o other free
dom can long Misunderstanding Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29

affected by the news from Wash
ington. We noted that the scramble
to buy stocks was not because the
tax bill had been vetoed, or because
the veto had been overridden, but
apparently simply because of a
split between the President and one
of his party's leaders.
Some one of our readers may
know the answer to this puzzle:
Why should shares of stock, whose
value is supposedly based solely on
the physical assets and profit-mak-
ing powers of a corporation, in
crease in value because a Senator
talked back to the President of the
United States?
Or to this one: Why should stock
in corporations supplying the most
essential war materials to the Gov
ernment be most in demand in a
case such as this.-The Brewery
Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
In THE WIND
From TIL NATION

Interest in foreign languages runs
vita the tides of War and politics.
The Berlitz School of Languages
reports that the demand for Rus
sian has more than doubled since
the Red Army began to hit back in
1912, though it declines whenever
Stain makes a move or statement
that is unpopular in this country.
The Linguaphone Institute, which
is also having a boom in Russian,
says the demand for French slum-
ped badly after the defeat of
France but is now increasing a
pidly.
The neutral conscience: Irish
Travel, official organ of the Irish
Tourist Association, recently pub
lished on one page photographs Of
"Fujiyama, the Sacred Mountain of
Japan and Mount Erigal, Done
gal" The caption, in large type at
the top of the page, vas See Japan
in Ireland"
All is not dark in Dixie. Georgia
has become the first state in the
Union to sponsor a statewide Sew
for-Russia campaign among its
high-school students. The Home
making Division of the Department
of Education expects $4,000 gar
ments to be made by girl students
this month.
The Christian Century report that
the Virgin Mary has been made an
honorary general in the Argentine
army. She receives no salary, but
is allowed a ''vivaticum' of ten
dolarrs a day-which is collected
by the church.
Festung Europe: A Danish under
ground newspaper comments thus
on the 8 p. m. curfeW imposed by
the Nazis: Does a Dane like any
thing better than to sit at home on
a quiet night when the noise of the
! town has ceased and hear the still
ness broken only by a violent ex-
plosion? That is the saboteurs'
goodnight kiss to Adolf"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
NEA BLAMES LOW PAY
FOR TEACHER
SHORTAGE

Because Of their low salaries,
200, 900 teachers have left elemen-
tary and high schools since Pearl
Harbor, the Natl. Education Assn.
reported.
Living costs since August 1889
have risen rs per cent; teachers
salaries less than 10 per cent. Five
teachers out of every 100 are being
paid less than $500 a year-$11.50
a week.
Exec. Sec. Willard F. Givens de
clared that it will require $780,
600, 900 to bring teachers salaries
into line with increased living costs
and with industrial workers earn
ings.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
Second Chance

On Sept.8s 1918. Woodrow Wilson said: q can predict with absolute
certainty that within another generation there will be another World
War, if the nations of the world do not concert the method whereby
10 prevent It" On the 25th of the same month, only a matter of minutes
before the collapse which ended his active part in world affairs, he cried
out: = do not hesitate to say that the war we have Just been through
though it was shot through with terror of every kind, is not to be CON-
pared with the a w should have to face next time"
1t was Just twenty wears ago that the life of Woodrow Wilson came
TO an end. Calvin CooHdge-Was President, and the League of Nations has
been fatally hamstrug by the Senate of the United States. The Woodrow
Foundation calls attention to these things with a comment
orative pamphlet entitled Our Second Chance.
The story of our failure in 1919 is long and complicated. 1t w not
just the little group of willful Senators who failed. It was not jus. the
United States that failed. Civilization failed. The old method of doing
things failed. Sadly and reverenly it must be SAID. a part of the failure
was Woodrow Wilson'S. But the tragic nature of u failure is evident
in every casualty list. Because the fathers were fools in 1919, the sons
ere dying in 1914.
But it is to give a message of hope that the friends of Woodrow Will
son SEND out their booklet Of hope-and also of warning. They tell us
in various forms, in the words of farscaHered speakers and writer's,
that we are given second chances but not ar endless series of them.
The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
Another Scheme to Grab Oil Reserve

With a persistency worthy of a better cause, the navy continues its
battle to turn the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to Standard Oil of Cali
fornia.
Recently Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox asked Congress to
remove barriers that have blocked the deal He seeks to amend the
Naval Petroleum Conservation Act of 1923, which forbids transfer to
private hands. . #.%E~
This legislation was put through by the late Senator Tom Walsh
and other Progressives to prevent repetition of what happened in the
Harding administration, when Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior,
turned the Elk Hills reserve over to Edward L. Doheny.
Fall was jailed for accepting a 100000 loan" from Doheny. The
latter was tried, but escaped conviction.
Knox has on two occasions attempted to get around the law, but
failed, thanks to the Department of Justice and Progressfves in Con
gress. Ftr- a 5e1u
Nearly a year ago a contract was made with Standard Oil of Cali
fornia under which the reserve was to be exploited with the navy
getting a part of the oil. The existence of the agreement was disclosed
by Congressman Jerry Voorhis Dem, Calif), in a sensational speech in
the House.
Subsequently, before a congressional committee, Norman M. Littel
assistant attorney general denounced the contract as fraudulent and
invalid" and it was withdrawn by the navy.
Knoxs request has gone to the House Naval Affairs Committee,
which will hold full hearings on it, according to Chairman Carl Vim
son (Dem, GaD -
Of course, the cry will be raised that 1--WE reat war, and that 1--WE
must have oil, whatever the cost" but u guess is that Uncle Sam will
lose his shirt unless Progressives in House and Senate are on the alert.
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29

child labor will also cause a heavy
toll. The depopulation of our
schools and colleges will deprive
the next generation of needed tech
nical and professional experts. The
drafting of young men from fac
tories will result in a loss of work
men skilled in the various crafts.
But no one seems to take these
things seriously. People don't stop
TO realize that our economy is not
run by machinery but by men. Do
you remember the lines: - iii
fares the land, to Fastening ills a
prey, where wealth accumulateS
and men decay?"-Never YER the
words of the poet more applicable!
- AFL Weekly News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
WHAT'S GOING ON
HERE?

On the day following the veto of
the tax bill and Senator Barkely's
short-lived revolution against the
President, The New York Times re-
ported lone of the swiftest scram-
bles to buy stocks in recent
months" with prices of stocks IBID
up quickly
The Times said: Hardly had the
news of Senator Barkley's revolt
against the President been printed
on the news tickers in the broker
age offices or become known gen
orally through radio news bulletins,
than orders began to pour onto the
trading floor of the (Stock) Ex-
change. These purchases embraced
a wide variety of stocks. but con-
centrated mostly on steels, motors,
rubbers, coppers and ~aircrafts."
AS we r wholly unfamiliar
with the inside workings of the
stock market, and positively unable
to understand what - except, per-
haps, the law of supply and demand
makes the value of stocks go up
and down, this was puZzling news.
We wondered what possible con-
nection there could be between a
revolt" (purely politically against
the President of the United States
and the monetary value of securi-
ties representing ownership in cor
%porations. We wondered why, of all
things, prices were Ibid up" We
wondered why it was mostly
steels, motors, rubbers, coppers and
aircrafts'' that were so favorably
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
AMERICAN DECENCY

Here is a story about a man who
deserves some sort of Medal of
Honor.
Governor Vivian of Colorado,
prompted by the Denver Post, had
called tie legislature into session
some weeks ago to pass a constitu-
tional amendment to keep Japan
csc ever those who are citizens,
from buying any Colorado land.
The bill was aimed at 1900 Nisei
who had been dumped there by the
Army after exclusion from the
West Coast.
TheS House seemed willing to
pass the, bill until three representa-
tives banded together to fight it:
one a Negro, the second whose
brother was a Jap prisoner, the
third a blind legislator. Dean Ro-
berts of Denver's st. joint Cate
dral warned his congregation:
'Fascism starts in an innocent way,
with public opinion modified
against a small group unable to
fight back"
The man who turned the vote,
though, was 26-year old Repre-
sentative Wayne Hill who had just
been discharged from the Army.
Said Hill to the House: II am eau
toned that | will be sorry (for my
stand) -. l am just as willing to
die a political death as | am to die
in battle to preserve American
freedom"
The House killed the bill COL.
Time deserves credit for break
ing the story nationally.-The New
Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
SOCIAL SECURITY BILL
GIVEN SLIGHT CHANCE

Bob" Doughton Holds Out
Scant Hope Measure Will
BE Considered
The Wagner-D ingell Social Secur-
ity bill, which has been pigeon
holed by the House Ways and
Means Committee since last June,
seems doomed to remain there in
definitely.
Chairman Bob Doughton
(Dem., N. c. declared recently,
that the legislation will have to
take its turn with about 200 or 300
other bills" The committee, he
said, had no intention of consider
ing the measure until tax simplyfi-
cation is out of the way, and that,
he predicted, will take some
time"
Other members of the committee
declared that social reforms"
should not be taken up during war
time.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
QUOTES FROM NOTED

IF a had an opponent of ade-
quate scope-of real military size
- then l could actually calculate
approximately where he would at
tack. But if one has before one mi
litary idiots, in such a case one can
not even guess where they will at
tack" - Adolf Hitler.
with a national income of 165
billion dollars fairly distributed
and with the entire population of
the country educated to eat a good
diet, it would be necessary to in
crease our present farm production
by bringing into cultivation from
80 to 40 million more acres of land.
If even a minimum adequate diet
for everyone were a fact, the land
in cultivation now would have to
be increased 10 million acres.
This, briefly, is the sweet water
of abundance that lies imprisoned
in the rock of our national eco
nomy, waiting to gush froth when
ever we, the people of this nation,
develop the clear understanding,
the unity of purpose, and the deter
mination to strike that rock with a
demand that our economy be
changed from one of scarcity to one
Cf n mundane no - ToNonc ~ Doffnn
President National Farmers Union.
THE total scale of our produc-
ton programs for 1914 exceeds
even the production for 1943. / Sc
riously war; you that the coming
year will call for a production eff
fort not only larger but far more
flexible, for the purpose of meeting
emergencies greater than we have
ever faced before" - Secretary of
War Henry Stimson.
THE job of increasing produc-
ton and holding down prices has
been done and will continue to be
done provided the people will stand
behind their President against sell
fish, greedy, noisy men" Vice
President Henry A. Wallace.
Let us not have a defeatist at
titude toward the future. A nation
that can produce full employment
in wartime can produce full en-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
7 he Peoples Choice?

Under our form of government, it is the people who select the chief
executives of government In theory, at least, that is so.
1t appears, however, that the people actually have little choice in
the matter. We reached this conclusion after reading of the recent efforts
10 sidetrack one leading contender for the presidential nomination by
offering him second place on a ticket to be headed by another and, at
present stronger contender. And it was not a case of getting the man
best qualified for the office, but simply one of political expediency, an
attempt to remove what might be the popular choice.
OF course, we have III primary election system, which enables us
TO choose the candidate w e want to vote for in the main election. But
again this is n O in theory only. The primary actually gives us no greater
choice of candidates than those selected for our approval by the political
powers working behind the scenes. Besides this, the candidates we 81
choose are still subject to- the will of the State or national conventions
OF their party, which, as history tells u.s., are more often than not com
pletely dominated by interests who don't give a damn about the people.
IL This is a democracy, and when we go to the polls w ar free to
vote for any candidate we like. But the trouble is that in many cleo
tons, marking the ballot is merely a matter of choosing the lesser of two
evils-The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
FACING the G
With PHILIP PEARL

The rapid depletion of our ma
tural material resources due to the
heavy demands of war has given
rise to concern in high quarters. Eff
forts + being made to concentrate
public attention on the dwindling
oil supply of III country and to
drum up support for financing pipe
lines across Africa. Similar sob sto-
ries appear in print with regard to
the loss of our reserves of metals
and minerals.
: But in all this talk you will sell
dom, if ever, hear any mention of
the effect of the war on our human
resources.
Strange, isn't it? How can people
get so excited and alarmed over the
loss of oil or coal or iron ore and
remain silent and Indifferent to the
effect upon our country of the loss
of manpoWer? What sort of society
do we live in where material things
take precedence over human life?
The drain upon Americas human
resources which this war has occa-
stoned cannot be measured only in
terms of lives lost on the battle
fields, of arms and legs shot off by
shrapnel or of minds destroyed by
the horrors of warfare.
Child Labor Causes Heavy Toll
The widespread employment of
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
Staggering Profits of Airplane Concerns

Additional evidence that the excess profit tax has failed utterly to
curb profiteering by war contractors was supplied recently by the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
After paying taxes and meeting other charges in 1912 and 1943, the
profits of the "a major companies producing airplanes equalled their net
worth.
In 1912, before taxes, profits aggregated 1924 per cent of net worth,
the commission said; while after taxes profits were 528 per cent of net
worth. In 1943, before taxes, profits were 1892 per cent of net worth,
and after taxes they were 472 per cent of net worth.
Thus, in two years, profits, AFTER TAXES, were just 100 per
cent of the net worth of these giant corporations.
Last year the profits of Consolidated Aircraft, before taxes, were
1888 per cent of net worth, and after paying taxes the company was
able to report a profit of 1T per cent of net worth. In other words, in
a single year, it recovered its entire investment and has a substantial
sum to boot-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29

ployment in peacetime. If all our
resources be diverted to weapons of
destruction, surely when peace
comes they can be diverted to food,
clothing, and shelter, to education,
to recreation and other essentials of
d fuller life.-Mis Mary Anderson,
Director of the Women's Bureau of
the Dept. of Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
100 MILLION JOBS
NEEDED

When the war ends and peace
time economy is restored, jobs will
have to be found for more than
100, 600, 900 persons throughout the
world, according to the Information
al Labor Office.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
Let's Recognize q
Better ItoIy

The Soviet decision to establish diplomatic relations with the Bado-
Clio government is a symptom of the confusion and laundering of Allied
political war to date. 1t increases rather than dinimshe5 the necessity.
for a consistent Allied prodemocratic policy in Italy and throughout
the world.
Russas act may be shrewd. 1t certainly does not accord with the
principles of a war for freedom. But Americans are hardly in a position
to be hypercritical on this issue; the Kremhn is merely recognizing
q noisome regime which London and Washington had chosen to support
Several explanations MAJ account for Russias recognition. Stain
may wish by this means to facilitate use of Italian ships with Italian
crews for the US5S.R. He may wish officially to register Soviet interest
in tally. He may be suggesting to London and Washington: Since you
sponsor o sorry an italian government, we recognize it and hope
you'll bear this in mind if we get behind some governments in Eastern
Europe that are equally dstasteful to you.
x x
Stain would not be adverse to a Italian revolutionary triumph of the
extreme left, he might well choose to give a new lease on life to the
Vicor-BadogEo clique, in the knowledge that the longer it keeps a
liberal regime out of power, the greater will be the chance that a frus-.
trated, bitter Italy will swing to the extreme left later on.
Any o r all of those explanations may apply. They don't run parallel
but they are not mutually exclusive. On one point, certainly, there must
be no misunderstanding. Russia's recognition of Victor and Badogio in
Patiently, therefore, the Soviet gesture in n way reduces the prospect
of enthusiastic Russian recognition of n antlFascist government based
on the Liberation From. if the Western Allies now permit n to come
into being.
Meantime, the chances obviously are greater that London and
Washington also will exchange diplomatic representatives with the pre-
sent Italian government" If they do SO, the case will be more pressing
for permitting the kind of government to exist that deserves recognition.
The parties of the Liberation Front, steadily growing in strength.
are ready to take over. Britain and America, not Russia, are still the
powers behind the rickety throne that blocks them. Since recognition
time" is here, it is more urgent than ever that we. let the plotters of
Italian privilege fall, and recognize a better Italy. Thus we a salvage
our own reputation, assist the democratic front in Italy, and begin lead
ing the Allies to an agreed program of decency in Europe as a whole.
The Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29

1t is not wealth, nor ancestry,
but honorable conduct and a noble
disposition that make men great.
Ovid.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29

A woman flees from temptation,
but a man just crawls away from
it in the cheerful hope that it may
overtake him.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-29
H FREE" PRESS

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. - The
White Plains Reporter Dispatch
refused to accept an ad from the
Westchester Cooperative Society,
announcing the opening of a new
store, because lit is against the po-
Icy OF Westchester County Pub
fishers, Inc, Owners of the paper)
to publish cooperative advertise
ments."