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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
If The Shoe Fits, Wear 1t,
Mr.. Compton

Compton of the Third Congressional Districts
"Mr. Nathan Sherman
editor"
sThe Union Tines
"New Haven, Connecticut
sDear Sir:
Merely keep straight little hope of
being accorded the usual fair due of
kind Iish protest the deliberate and malicious pubc
ton of known faehood today of The
i'm its editorial column heading MsRepresenta
tives.'
The editorial copied from Servcemens News issued
by the Servicemens Educational Welfare League Local
191, International brotherhood Transfers Bridgeport
based transformation carried in The International
Teamser article by Lester M Hunt and lists
those who voted against the so-caled federal
I'll take this occasion point
The Union Times choosing enormously
reports that voted against the sOcaed federal ballot pan
did with full personal knowledge that had supported the
socalled federal ballot plan occasion before
the House of Representatives AS of fact and
the editor of The Union Times published report my
in favor of the federal ballot against compromise
soldier vote bill in the issue of March 25
II Mr. Hunt protesting against story
in the International Teamster shall copy of this
letter the editor of the although his
probably honest Republication false
statement about editor OF The Union Times
further conclusive evidence airmined members of
organized labor that few INSCRIPTIONS leaders New
Haven concerned only with spreading fasehoods
to justify attacks upon my voting Congress-
every truly yours
'Ranulf Compton,
Mr.. Compton has the happy habit of putting his
every time he sticks the facts are that the
Congressional Record (not international Teamster'
shows that Feb last he voted for the
Vote Bill which President was forced to call ga
fraud upon the American people,. Voting bill is not
enough; it's what kind of bill that When Mr. Comp
voted against the Compromise Bill he right and
among the first to say So
We the international Teamster'' was wrong
in listing Mr. Compton misrepresentation Mr. Comp
of the group Representatives against
roca the first Soldier did Mr. Comp
have hide if he strongly favor of real Sol
der Vote Bill? the reporters checked
how each Representative voted should know today
that Mr. Compton among those who
the Soldier Vote Bill.
That is what mean when say that Mr.. Compton puts
his foot in time he sticks his neck For
voted right His letter makes necessary to expose the
slippery path leading up that
We think Mr. Compton had better another letter us
and to the international Teamster because its April
today indicates that among Representatives who
in voting override President Rooseves of the tax
bill, backed the greedy the needy Add this fact
that Mr. Compton has voted against subsidies
price rolbacks against the limitation of beyond
Sol 100000 years voted for the vicious Connay anti
labor laws for the Hobbs Bill and forced con-
cluson that Mr.. Compton indeed protests More
than convinced that of
Labor right in unanimously condemning Mr. Compton
for his anlabor, anticommon people voting Con
gress Let be remembered that he the only Connecticut
Representative so designated.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

THE BOYS i'm the Detroit Ne,Vs
composing room have been i'm
pOrtuning First Glass Seaman Joe
K. Emlaw, now i'm the South Seas,
to write more than his usual one
page letter, SO he hitched up his
pants and really wrote a letter.
When it got to the boys, however,
it was about the usual one-page
length, because the censor had
seen it first. AS received, it read /:
'Hi, pals-Cot your commu-
nique of the 18th and boy, those
photos look good! / mean, the
snow. HOmely bunch of guys,
aren't you No wonder you had to
stand the expense. Now for the
news:
so you want to know what I'm
doing Ok, first / go (seven lines
censored). So you see it's (12 more
lines censored), but then Give
more lines censored) lovely ladies
you get used to the tan I'll more
lines censored).
swell, chums, that's about all
the news can think of now. Hope
it stops you guys from nagging me
for news. joe"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Continued from Page One)


DANBURY novelist Rose Wilder
Lane has given up writing because
along with 10000, 900 other Am
orleans, she is allowed l6 meat
points weekly. She feels she's be-
ing ''regimented.' Remarkable
how this type of person objects to
democratic distribution of scarce
commodities i'm order that her soul
may be as free as the wind. Art
beautiful art. Phooey!
CONNECTICUT may yet have
to pass state income tax law in
order to get rid of some of the
very strange people who have
moved from New York into Fair
field County i'm order to avoid pay
ing the New York state income tax.
Strange how most of these ''johnny-
come-latelys,'' when they express
political opinions, are as reaction
airy as they come. 1t may be mar
row of us, but we can't help won
dering why, if they don't like the
U. S., don't they go back where
they came from?
( WE KNEW the manpower short
age was bad, but until we read the
headline below the full realization
of just how bad hadn't fully struck
home. The clipping is from the
ROslyn Q.I.) NesOs:
SPARROW RETURNS ON
CRIPSHOLM; WAS
ATTACHED TO RED CROSS
This week Is manufacturers
who have taken advantage of the
shortage in sweets were hailed in
to court at New York, charged
with marketing candy made under
filthy conditions and at extortion-
ate prices. Candy bars now retailing
for S cents were declared to be
poor substitutes for those that sold
formerly for 2 cents. Lollipops that
formerly sold at l cent are now
2 and 3 cents.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
OnTheScene
Washington
By Travis K. Hedrick

When United States Sen. Theo-
dore B. (The NAM Bilbo, the
Mississippi polltaxer, climbed on
a rOstrum before the legislature of
his home state last week, he out
did himself in oratOry.
Bilbo, preaching the doctrine of
the old reactionary south-the doc
trine of white supremacy" copied
his text from Herr Hitler's book.
And surprisingly enough, lots Of
southerners didn't like it.
Bilbo urged the south to ''draw
the color line tighter and tighter
and defeat any attempts at fuller
equality promptly and forever"
He declared he would fiIibuster 18
months if necessary to kill the
pending federal anti-polI tax bill.
I'VE people of the south must up
hold our racial integrity he said.
The superior ability of the
white race has been proven both
craniologically and by 5000 years
of planet-wide experimentation.
The white race is the custodian of
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Anyone
who would in the name of Chris
tianity make us a Negroid people
betrays his religion and his race.
I'VE must draw the color line
tighter and tighter and any white
man or woman who dares cross that
color line should be promptly and
forever ostracized," he shrieked. "We
will tell our Negro-loving white
friends to go straight to hell"
BilbO's TRADE of hate, prejudice
and bigotry will bounce back on
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

There is comfort for all labor of
whatever affiliatiOn-in the know.
ledge that the steel case in really
every workers case. Some of us
may tend to forget that at mo-
ments. Another hopeful thought is
WLB Chairman, VIM. III. Davis
statement that he would recon-
mend a change in the formula
once convinced that a change is
necessary to prevent undue hard
ship and discrimination. The AFL
and CIO hope to prove that the for
mula's operation without effective
controls of other costs involved is
working such hardship and discri-
minatiOn.
So all labor has to do now is
convince Davis and the WLB.
1t looks like long, warm sum-
mer.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
As We See It. by The Staff

MEMBERS of the National War
Labor Board refused to be bowled
over this week by a high-pressure
campaign, fathered by anti-labor
newspapers, to give socalIed ''inde-
pendent" unions representation on
par with the A. F. of L. and
C. |. 0.
Most of the independents are
just short step removed from
company unionism'' and some of
them are now under fire, in pro-
ceedings before the National Labor
Relations Board, as illegal COM
pany-dominated organizations.
They have been ballooned out of
all proportion to their negligible
membership by the major newspa-
pers, particularly the Scripps-
Howard Press, i'm an effort to drive
wedge into the regular labor
movement.
BUSY Man!
On page one of the Chicago Her
Gld-AnericGn, was a story on movie
actress Judy Canova expecting a
baby, with the statement that she
is married to Sgt. Chef Englund,
now stationed in Ohio. On page
three was story on movie actress
Judy Garland expecting a baby.
with the statement that she is mar
ried to Sgt. Chef Englund, now sta
toned in Ohio.
FROM somewhere in New Cui-
nea comes, this item: A finance Of
ficer at one camp keeps several
thousand dollars in currency i'm
his desk drawer. No. guard is kept
on duty and no money has ever
been missing.
But in the very same camp. a
small amount of medicinal whiskev
is stored in hut over which one
officer and two armed men stand
guard "a hours a day.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

Every scrap of paper saved
multiplied by the milliOn-helps
us in the scrap for our good cause.
Save your paper ad serve your
country.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
Brain Game

Score 10 for each correct answer threurh
question six. 40 each for the remaining
two ansstions- Any score - er higher 10
excellent.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11

ONE hundred and fifty-th years
" ago next Dec. Is, the founding
fathers of our nation formally
adopted the 10 amendments to our
Constitution which are known as the
Bill of Rights.
From Dec 10 to Dec. Is, Ameri-
cans will celebrate the ratification of
the Bill of Rights, refreshing their
knowledge of its provisions, their
understanding of its Importance in
our daily lives, and giving thanks to
Providence that this covenant of our
liberties is still ours to cherish and
observe as free men.
It is the Bill of Rights that guar
antees our rights to trial by jury,
to worship and speak freely, to secu-
rity of property and person against
arbitrary seizure, to protection from
cruel and unusual punishment, to
assemble and to petition government
for redress.
The Bill of Rights, however, does
not operate merely because it exists,
It works because there have al
ways been many more Americans
who understood it and maintained
it, than Americans who did neither.
Hence the Bill of Rights is
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
Postwar Shipping
Stand Commended

New York, N. Y. Nov. %, 1914.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
YOUR editorial in New York Journal-American
L and other Hearst newspapers on postwar ship
ping performs a great public service in that it
brings to the attention of Americans, the urgent
need for an intelligent legislative policy if our
merchant marine is to hold it's rightful place on
the seas.
All the American merchant marine asks is
fair" competition in the postwar period
Unfair advantages derived through exces-
sively low standards for pay and living conditions
on foreign ships can be equalized by payment Of
parity differentials and through greater use Of
American merchant ships by American travellers
and shippers.
Unless American steamship lines are allowed
the right to continue their progress in the develop
ment of overseas transportation by the main
tenance of supplementary air services, your pre-
diction of an 'impotent" American merchant
marine in the postwar period is correct
Kindest regards,
FRANK J. TAYLOR,
President, American Merchant
Marine Institute Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
The Bill of Rights

living philosophy, not dead docu-
ment.
And, like all living ideas, it must
derive life from the people.
It will remain a mighty bulwark
against tyranny, secure promise Of
freedom, just as long as the people
recognize and observe it as the funda-
mental law which none may violate
or outrage with impunity.
Every American should know
intimately the Bill of Rights.
Every American should deter.
mine that his relations toward the
nation, and the nations government
toward himself, shall be strictly &C.
cording to the wisdom and justice of
the Bill of Rights.
With the Bill of Rights, our
country can weather any storm,
foreign or domestic.
Without the Bill of Rights, the
slightest breeze can well wreck or
dismember the ship of state.
Let us give humble thanks for
the Bill of Rights, and at the same
time reaffirm our resolve to maintain
and preserve the liberties it defines.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
TO THE EDITOR:

IL IHE EDlIOk.
ME READ in two Detroit
w newspaper that, due 10 the
apparent cigaret shortage. Local
800 UAW-CIO has sent its final
allotment of cigarets to overseas
members as wetf as local camps
and that the gifts were financed
by individual contributions.
We would appreciate your ad-
vising the people in Detroit, and
especially your readers who are
employees In the Gear and Axle
Division of the Ford Rouge
plant, that the article appearing
In the Detroit newspapers spoke
only for the members of the
Tool and Die Division of the
Rouge plant.
Please be specific that the
Gear and Axle Division is not
affected and cigarets will 90 out
as usual 10 our members. Unless
this is done, the financial con-
tribution each pay day will drop
off considerably.
ANDREW j. IGNASIAK,
Army Welfare Committee,
Gear and Axle Building
Chairman.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11

question six, 40 each for the remaining
two qnestions-- any score - 90 higher 70
excellent.
lin what country are Tirana,
and the seaport OF DuraZzo7
Purdue University football
teams are called the Boiler
makers" Why was this name
given them?
3-Who conceived of child's
duties in the lines which
follow:
"A child should always say
what's true
And speak when he is spoken
TO,
And behave mannerly at
table:
At least as far as he is able"
4-As collaborator with George
s. Kaufman he has written,
The Man Who Came to
Dinner" You Can't Take 1t
With YOU" and "Once in a
Lifetime" Alone. he wrote
Lady in the Dark" Who
is he?
5--True or false: Barrymore is
the stage name OF the famous
acting family. Their real sur
name is Blythe.
6-Who, in the Bible, after be-
ing stoned, had dying vision
OF Christ?
7-Unscramble the following
Christmas carols and their
composers: Silent Night,
George Handel; Joy TO the
World, Felix Mendelssohn;
Hark! The Herald Angels
Sing. Franz Gruber.
Which German poet wrote:
Rest is not quitting the
busy career;
Rest is the fitting Of self 10
ones sphere"
ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11

SIDE
BY Damon
Runyon
6VOU don't remember me 2"
Il the colonel asked.

oNOU uOnt remember INC
Il the colonel asked.
The face II familiar" I said.
''but the uniform In the throw
of. I don't seem to know you
between those eagles"
'Weli," he said, "see n you
can visualize me in n Brainson
suit OF clothes, shirt by Sulks,
Cravat by Charvet, shoes by
Jim Moore, hat by Cavanaugh,
jewelry by Cartier" -.
THAT would make you q hot
man of the dashing eos" I said.
Roger" he replied. .T mean
right. And I will mention one
name that may help you further
toward my Identification
Factor"
All! Oh, yes, and to be sure!
/ had him now. One of Chicago
Jake Factors merry men who
went to England in the age Of
dizziness to sell stock to the
Britishers for The Barber"
and sold il to the tune Of
Zillions.
Jake is now doing a bit In
Midwestern can for a beef con-
nected with whisky certificates,
believe. His London crew
dispersed long ago. I run into
former members now and then
around the country, most OF
them meticulously legit.
7 RECKON that was the fast
i est mob of stock hustlers
ever assembled anywhere. They
were dapper, glib, housekeeping
young fellows who could talk
the paint of q house. The
English had never seen any
thing like them.
Jake and his associates took
in pounds and pence faster than
they could count them and they
lived like big league kings, al
though they would have lived
that way in any case, such be.
ing their nature. Then one OF
the big papers In London, I
think it was the Mail, took out
after Jake, exposing him per.
sonally and knocking his busi-
ness as racket. which maybe
il was, though it was within the
law.
He took down upwards OF
half a million and returned 10
New York, but of course be-
tween the old shakeroo and the
lawyers and this and that he
was soon as clean as a jaybird.
Jake sued all right and just as
my friend foresaw, that was
"the BARRIERS" undoing in Eng
land.
He came back TO the United
States and his old home town
of Chicago to be kidnapped and
tortured by the Touhys and to
go broke and finally get caught
up on the old Midwestern rap
at a time when he had some
thing legit going for him that
promised big returns.
SCT HAVE been stationed in
Il England for two years."
said the colonel, who was a
business man in Boston before
the war, with all thought of
quick money far, far behind
him.
"Yes:" said. "And did you
ever happen TO run into any of
your old clients:"
"Once," he said. 'T was a
guest at a country home and
1 recognized the host as q chap
TO whom 1 had sold American
stock, that as I recalled then
had a slightly doggy aroma to
more sensitive nOstrils, taking
I'm trade on the deal some stock
In English concerns supposed to
be as solid rs the Rock of
Gibraltar.
II was hoping the recognition
was not mutual but he came up
to mo Mt once and said, Il say,
old man, have been waiting
for years to thank you for maxi
ing me rich by persuading me
TO make that exchange Of stock
with you. 1 would be ruined had
kept my old stock, you know.
Then 1 remembered" the
colonel said, "that the stock 1
unloaded on him today IL one
OF the finest on the market"
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
The Wounded
Don't Want Pity
BY BENJAMIN DECASSERES

NOthlng-nOttlng!-lS too good Tor our boys
who slugged it out in the Pacific and Europe with
the two most savage enemies of modern times so
that we stay-at-homes could be free from buzz
bombs, invasion and Jap-German slavery.
But aside from the material help we are CIV
ing our wounded we must extend to them psyche.
logical-that is, mental and spiritual-help.
They must take their places vith us in the
work of building up new strong America.
Our wounded must not be class set aside.
We must do nothing to lower their morale.
We must blow the breath of new life and a
new hope into each of one Of our wounded.
ON THIS subject no better advice has been given
~ to the American people than that by Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general OF the U. 5.
Because of Gen. Kinks position he speaks
almost literally, from the very wounds and dis
abilities of our boys.
Here is his sound advice:
Social workers should help (rather than
further incapactate) the wounded veteran by
treating him as If he were not wounded.
2-Mothers, when you see your sons do net
break down and cry Smile. He needs that smile,
not your tears.
3-When wounded veteran walks down the
street don't turn to look at him with pitying eyes,
And don't help him on or off streetcars and buses
unless he absol lutely needs it.
4-Meddlesone help and plying looks de-
stroy his sef-confidence. He needs to believe IN
himself in civil life as he did at the battlefront
Help him to ctimb up.
Gen. Kirk says that too much codding and
offciousness may destroy many months work OF
doctors and nurses in a few minutes.
5-And in these fortnight words Gen. Kirk
gives the wounded veterans this message of hope
for stay-at.homes to take deeply to heart:
"The wounded soldier does not want sympathy.
Neither does he want charity. Legislation and the
grant of funds, embelshed by ballyhoo, is not the
whole answer to making him useful citizen He
wants to be SELF-SUPPORTING and SELF.
RELIANT. 1t is only humanitarian to subsidize
him in accordance with his handicap but he does
not want pity, gratuties or sob-sister aid. Many
of these men, when properly trained, have higher
earning power than when they entered the army.
"As men they have right to think for them.
selves. They don't want anybody messing in their
business. They are men and they know how to act
for themselves. Too many men were made buns
after the last war by coddling and spending money
on them. Don't do that to those returning this
time"
A LII that is the honest straight -from-the
"A der truth
Remember, Americans, that these men are
SOLDIERS.
They are our NO. CITIZENS.
They want to take their places in the indus
trial life Of America as though nothing had hap
pened.
They want jobs, not words
AS Gen. Kirk Says, many will "have higher
earning power than when they entered the army"
Let us see to it that that is true.
No matter how our heart -bleeds let our eyes
smile and our hands help citizen No. l. the return
ing soldier who has made the great sacrifice for
you and me and our children.
DaI CI..
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
ROBERT s. HIX,
Captain, q. NJ. c."
TO TIE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
MY BROTHER, who has been
w overseas almost two years.
has requested me to try TO get
him a harponica. He would
like an NJ. Kohner ChroSnaatic
No. 263. did obtain one
through a friend but some of
the keys were missing and
he was very disappointed. l
thought, by trying through your
column. that / might be able 10
locate one.
MRS. FRANK RAY,
Box 1875.
Flat Rock, Mich.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
TO THE EDITOR (:

~ lf1E EDIIOR.
THE way election boards han.
Il died ballots on Nov. Z is an
open scandal Mrs. Marguerite
Montgomery. chairman Of the
Wayne County Board OF Can
vaSSers is quoted as saying
that With more than 1000 in
experienced persons working on
the board, many Of whom had
only the vaguest knowledge of
election procedure the errors
are understandable" "
The question is. WHY should
election workers have only a
vague knowledge OF the job
they are supposed 20 do cof-
rectly? Why were they not
trained in. advance? Or given
proper Instructions
Instead Of Using green politi-
cal henchmen. why not have
the Civil Service Board select
these city or county employees =
by tests and examinations ard
see that they are capable?
&. HN
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11

THE DETROIT TIMES
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
WE WISH to take this OPP
w portunity to thank you in
behalf Of the letter carriers of
the city of Detroit for the
splendid editorial which ap-
peared In your Issue OF Oct s
supporting the salary increase
legislation for postal employees
now before Congress.
AS postal employees have not
had a permanent salary in
crease since 1925, we feel GER
tain that a large majority Of
the people are also in favor of
this legislation. This editorial,
no doubt, induced many of the
friends of the letter carriers TO
write TO their congressman and
senators asking for favorable
action on this legislation.
VAL GERHARD,
Recording Secretary,
Branch 1, n. A. l.. {.
Detroit evening times., 1944-12-11
knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY

Score one for each ~ the hrst ave aues-
tIors. and Ave Tor the last questlon: s-io
brilliant; T-e, bright; 40, averages o.
dull.
1.-The Emperor of Japan on his
next birthday will be: ta)
a.. (b) "a. (c) 81.
2--The stars on the first United
States flag numbered: (a1
10, (bl 13, (c) 4S.
3-Eiderdown in winter quilts
comes from: (a) a duck,
(b) a rabbit, (c) an egret.
4-The phrase The forgotten
man" was coined by: al
Abraham Lincoln, tb) Will
Rogers. (c) William Sumner.
5-The Evergreen State is:
(a) Maine, (b) Florida, (c)
tcl Washington.
6-Match these columns:
5 Ro..iind Pos,la Y TMsi,tn @Hsai.ta S''n'
& Viola T. The Merchant 81
q Opheiia venice
y HCymbeiine"
e. Imogcne As You the n"
(AnSwers on opposite pageD