Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-05-24
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

lyncH Il negro prisoner, tOIu them
about the federal anti-lynching
law, and persuaded them to go
home.
1t is an old New Orleans custom
for Catholics to advertise their
gratitude to the saints in the news
papers. Recently the Times-Pica-
yune carried the following notice
in its personal column: Thanks to
st. Jude and Huey Long for favors
received"
The Central Baptist Church of
Dallas, Texas, advertises a sermon:
will the Modernists Force An
other Civil War upon America over
the Race Observation-Disclosures the
Same Men Deny the Literal and
Bodily Resurrection of Christ Also
Teach Racial Equality and Inter
| marriage!"
In all the SO pages of Admiral
Kings report on naval operations
there is only one passing reference
to Canadian naval work in the
North Atlantic, and no mention of
the fact that the Royal Canadian
Navy is doing more than 80 per
cent of all convoy work in this area.
Printers Ink reports tina the
housing shortage in Knoxville,
Tennessee, is so acute that people
watch the obituary columns of the
newspapers and call the Wner of
houses and apartments as soon as
vacancies occur. Some even watch
the hospital notices.
The first memorial fund in honor
of William Allen White has been
established by B'nai Birth. In re-
cognition of Mr.. Whites Lifetime
crusade against bigotry and intoler-
ance' $500 will be awarded each
year to a student of the University
of Kansas who in the opinion of a
faculty committee has made the
most outstanding contribution to
interfaith understanding on the
campus.
A London afraid warden, sur
veying a recent nights bomb dam
age, was surprised to hear organ
Observation-Disclosures from the
smoldering ruins of a large church.
He entered the building cautiously
and found the organist playing in a
cloud of dust, with water pouring
down on him from above. The
organist looked around and ex-
planned that this was the only way
he could get the water out of the
pipes. He vas playing Handlers
Water Music.
British theatrical producers are
having a hard time these days find
ing young girls for their choruses.
Before the war most chorus girls
from eighteen to twenty-four
years old; now they are twenty
four and up. The others are doing
war work.
Incendiaries now average go per
cent of all American bomb loads.
Festung Europa: Some of the par
sonages which loyal Norwegian
pastors have been forced to aban-
don are being offered as rewards to
Quisling followers returning from
active service on the Russian front,
but they r not always acceptable
gifts. One man turned down a par
sonage in favor of 10000 kroner in
cash; another refused to take one
because he was afraid of the public
reaction =. Last November the
French underground announced
that detachments of guerillas would
come out of hiding and parade
through Nantua on a specified day.
Nazi and Vichy police were ready
in force to destroy them, but they
didn't show up. They paraded in
OyonnaX, twelve miles away, were
acclaimed by the people, and slip
ped away to the mountains before
the Nazis heard about it The
course of the war can be discerned
in the changing Nazi propaganda
slogans used in Norway: 1910, I'VE
have wont" 1941. I'VE shall Wini'
1912, I'VE must VIM 1943, I'VE
will never capitulate.!" 1914, TO
ward brighters timesi" Viennese
wits are circulating a new defini-
ton of high treason: ITO remember
a speech of the Fuhrer for more
than three months" 49,. From a re-
cent broadcast by General Kurt
Dittmar, radio voice of the German
army: IF one speaks Festung Euro
army: IF one speaks of Festung
Europa. it is only in a f~igurative
sense"