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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22


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radio script
writer, got his
baptism Of fire
in the air. They
want the new
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good ig h t S
sleep and they
know he prob
ably will be a
nervous wreck
II told about his
first mission the
night before. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
County Officials Hail
Cemetery Bill 1ab|ing
Lloyd Says Action Allows
Orderly Development

Arlington County civic leaders to-
day hailed yesterdays action of the
House Military Affairs Committee
in tabling a bill to authorize Fed
eral acquisition of 118 acres of
Federal and privately owned land
to expand Arlington National Gene
terry.
Yesterdays action reversed an
earlier approval of the Senate
approved bill.
The proposal would have affected
land lying between Lee and Wash
ington boulevards, The Arlington
County Board and the Chamber OF
Commerce commended that the
threat of Federal acquisition had
lowered property values and that
the land involved contained one
OF the county's most potentially
valuable areas.
Leo c. Lloyd, chairman Of the
Arlington County Board, greeted
the House body's action enthusi-
astically.
AiiC tdAPdyCIS Va AuklktUIl
County deeply appreciate the OPP
portunity afforded them by the
House Military Affairs Committee
to be heard on the question:" he
said. TT is with a great deal OF
satisfaction that we read Of their
final decision, which. I believe, has
the effect of allowing us to pro-
coed in the orderly development OF
our community"
William Morrell Stone, president
of the Arlington Chamber, declared
Il am delighted with the results OBJ
tanned"
Committee Chairman May, stating
his attitude toward the future of
the measure, asserted:
1.-THE bill has gone to committee
three times. am strong for it per-
sonally, but I'm not going to call it
up any more unless the Government
can present case showing it is
entitled to the r1ronerty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Benefit Dance Slated

The Four Corners School Parent.
Teacher Association will hold a
dance from 10 pm. to / am. Satur-
day at the Indian Spring Country
Club for the benefit of the school
fund. Proceeds will be used to
equip medical room, which will
have first aid supplies. cots and
other equipment. Mrs. Robert At
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Roof DESTROYED by Fire

Fire last night destroyed the roof
of the Coffey Building at Eighteenth
and Eads streets south, Arlington
Fire Chief Carl E. Scheffel said the
blaze apparently started on the top
floor of the tWo-story brick build
ing and spread to the roof. The
building was unoccupied
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Six Postmosters Approved

The Senate has confirmed these
Virginia postmasters: Charles F..
Simpson, Arlington; William C.
Pullman, Fort Belvoir; Ruth o.
Griffin, Newsoms: Alice L. Paxton,
Oceana; Robert M. Bradshaw, Rice
Margaret v. Reid, Triangle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Holt Appointment O. K.

The nomination of Harry H. Holt,
jr Hampton, Va, to be United
States attorney for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, succeeding Judge
Sterling Hutchinson, was confirmed
yesterday by the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
BY THOMAS r.. HENRY,

UNITED STATES HEAVY BOMBER IN ENGLAND, Feb &c
has been historic day for sgt Ralph currens
BIB street. Frederick Nd
at Washington until he joined ago.
He pulled out Of his blankets
In hurry and his flying
had previous warming
gunner NAL just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-22
Over There With Men From Here
EX-SCRIPT WRITER TELLS
OF FIRST COMBATFLIGHT

IS one OF OF stories Star
District Maryland Virginia soldiers
OF Germany.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
ousts at 7eheran

Some indication of the pomp and flourish at Teheran appeared in
Edward Angley's eyewitness report to the Marshall Field publications
Describing the presentation of a handsome fourfoot sword by
Churchill as a gift from King George the Sixth to thespeople of Stain
grad, Angley reported how Joe Stain kissed the massive sword and
there was a Russian ceremonial Marcia modified form of the
goose step" 49, Fe~-
Red officers "snartly turned out in black boots, blue breaches
olive drab tuncs with red and yellow shoulder boards, their heads
covered. with black vsored caps formed a guard of honor about the
sword and took it from the room"
At the birthday party for Churchill, Angley tells us, "the 33 male
guests included all the top names in all three delegations and until past
midnight toasts were drunk in the Russian fashion to the number of
several score" teUa ue al
The whole experience was SO exhaustng to some9of our military
leaders that 43 of them consumed in oe day "26 bottles of Scotch
whiskey, IL bottles of French champagne of 1923 vintage, nine bottles
of chablis, two bottles of claret, three bottles of 1864 French brandy,
and an unspecfied quantity of sherry" in Jerusalenson their return
from Teheran, according to a special report to the New York Herald
Tribune.
Drinks were consumed from luncheon until late at night and be-
tween meals" the Herald Tribune reported with meticulous care. Mill
tary experts visited the Holy Sepulchre 80"
How those two bits of news could be sufficiently related to get
into the same paragraph is not clear, unless you want to blame that on
the paper shortage too-The Progressive.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
The President Speaks Well

There is 81 much good in what the President said to Congress on
Jan. IL that it would be unfair to him and to our readers to give all our
attention to the proposal of a labor draft which his talk contained.
There is the statement that the tax bill now being considered by
Congress C6r approximately So 000,O00000 does not begin to meet
the test of whether II not our sons and daughters will be burdened
with needless debt. That is true; more-much more of what the war is
costing should be paid out of taxes.
And then there is the call for subordnation of individual or group
selishness to the national good. Never was a social viewpoint SO des-
perately needed as now.
And there is the warning that 'necesstous men are not free men"
that people who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which
relationships are made and that a return to the so-caled nornnalcy of
at home" t|
We say that President Roosevelts warnings are worth needing and
acting upon. And we wish we could tell every worker in America why
it is SO difficult to end the evils and avoid the dangers to which the
president points.
The reason why we can't pay for this war a we fight it but must
q selfish attitude in this time of crisis, can be summed up in II word:
The reason is-CAPITALISM
We could win the wal and avoid debit we owned the mean of
production and distribution collectively and operated them for use in
end capitalism and their president-who is a beneficiary of the, profit
system-does not want to end it, And SO we pile up debts which will
be greater or less today.
We could have a united national effort instead of a selfish pressure
if the economic machine were socially owned and if every advance in
skill and production brought higher living standards to all instead Of
insecurity and unemployment to many.
We al exercise the spirit of fascism if we abandon the class con-
fhct which the capitalist profit economy has bred and will continue to
breed, and if we inaugurate democratic Socialism as the way of life
We wish we could make the alternative plain to the workers of
America 49,.
Either profits and strife or Socialism and unity.
Either profits and the slavery of debt or Socialism and production
for ue in a socially owned economy.
Either capitalism and, ultimately, fascisn-or Socialism, unity and
democracy Oh a higher and broader plane.
Nobody can have the old order and escape its consequences We
abes those VINO own to prey upon those who work-Reading Labor
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
ANNUAL WAGE

CLIO Pres. Philip Murray has focused national attention O a mini
mum guaranteed annual wage for industrial workers as of the major
issues in 1914.
This is one Of the demands of the United steelworkers of America
IN Its present collective bargaining negotiations with the steel COM
panies.
one of the general issues on which the CIO will campaign in the 1914
elections.
He has called attention to the glazing contrast between the in
security which faces a workers and returning servicemen, O the M
han n the Wel-padded security 81 carefully provided for American
corporations n their coupOn-chppers, n the other.
Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson recently testified that
noney-making corporations by the end of 1914 will have the equivalent
of a postwar reserve of more than $42,O OO 900 0O.
This is a greater u than the entire national income in the asst
year of the Hoover administration.
The corporations have been carefully outstanding their huge a
holding them in reserve rather than paying them out in present divi-
dends.
From 1941 to 1943 they accumulated almost IL billion dollars in
undistibuted profits, and money making corporations alone have piled
up about 10 billion dollars since 1939-al of which is waiting to be-
divided among the stockholders after the war.
In addition, the Congress has provided that even money already
paid IN war taxes Ia be refunded to the corporations after the al
if they suffer losses then.
BY the end of this year., there will be a reserve of 26 billion dOllars
III TN treasury TO guarantee Securty-puS to American stockholders
after the war-virtuany guaranteeing them normal profits for two
full years.
Contrast this government guaranteed security for well-heeed
shadow American working people and looms particularly threaten
ingly in the postwar years.
The social security laws provide only a minimum of subsistence q
less for a limited period and for a limited number of workers.
Why then should not the profit-rich corporations. out of their
plentiful reserves, be required to show some comparable consideration
Tor workers who make their profits possible a. they show to the
stockholders who garner them in?-The Montana Labor News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
BIG DAMAGES

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Damages
of $3.50, 000-the largest ever given
in the Federal court for the south
r district of New York - were
awarded to James C.. Mckinney, a
railroad brakeman on the Pitts
burgh & Lake Erie, for the loss of
both legs in an accident said to
have been due to defective brakes.
The jury found that the railroad
was responsible for the mishap.
CHICAGO-A record award of
100000 was won by Tracy j.
Chopper of Columbus, Ohio, a
brakeman on the Pennsylvania,
under a verdict handed down by a
jury here this week. in the court of
Superior Judge John F. Haas.
Chopper, the father of three chill
dren, lost an arm and a leg during
a collision between two trains on
a switching track at Columbus,
Ohio.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
TOWARD A NEW HARDING
COLLIDGE-HOOVER ERA.

Under the meannigful headline, "A Resurgent Congress Shapes a
robustness Future for the Nation" the Wall Street Journal carried a
story from Washington predicting that a conservative Congress- will
dominate Americas postwar career"
capitol Hill. -. will place all bets N the ability ST onnettiva
industry to provide high production and employment . reiecting pov-
ornamental projects for public works and planning and direction of
private industry. Congress will also defeat any legislation for enlarged
social security, the Wall Street Journal predicts. Government housing
plans Will also be rejected, and federally owned plants will be
quickly disposed of to private industry.
roosevelt appears to have captuated." New Deal. fundamental
ism fades out" In contrast to the USA, Britain, it appears from here
will concentrate on its Beverdge plan, it's monopoles backed and d.
rected by the state"
In other words, Congress will adopt the program of the National
Association OF Manufacturers for free enterprises-the program now
endorsed also by the Communicative New Leader
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

union like the universal postal
union, open to all nations. The diff
Guilty with this solution is that
while postal services are not
matters of national life and death
struggle, aviation may decide the
question of national extinction or
survival. Still, the proposal de-
serves serious attention.
4. Set up a federal world con-
trol-at least of the air" III. G.
Wells) This proposal could not be
successfully carried out unless
there were, in. effect, a world fed
eral government of sorts.
World War I was followed by a
bitter struggle for oil reserves. No
answer was found to the problem
of allocating natural resources
among human beings on an equit-
able basis. The issue was left to
competition-and World War II.
World War II will be followed by
a bitter struggle for air control, and
unless men find an answer, by
World War III. How~much simpler
and wiser to set up asWorld fedora
ton charged, among other duties
with complete international con.
troll of the air.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
Casualties in Industry Are
Larger Than on Bottle
Fronts

Casualties among workers on the
home front are still running far
larger than among American troops
overseas.
That startling fact, seldom if ever
mentioned by anti-labor newspaper
and radio propagandists, was cited
this week by President William
Green of the A. F. of L. Official
government figures, he said, show
the toll of accidents in industry
considerably outnumbers the casu-
alties from enemy guns and bombs
to Yanks on the fighting fronts.
Since Pearl Harbor, more than
10000 American workers have lost
their lives and seven million more
have been injured on the produc-
ton 'front.'" Green said.
The deaths and injuries have
been SO high in large part because
the nations workers are tolling
long hours and at top speed to
turn out war materials in record
time and thus save countless thou
sands of American lives abroad
the A. F. of L. chieftain declared.
He gave these figures at a rally
in Indianapolis, which launched la
boris participation in the Fourth
-
War Loan Drive. VIM. Green in.
sisted that American workers, hav.
ing given ''life and limb" to The
cause of victory, will likewise give
their last dollars.
Members of the A. F. of l.. alone
he estimated, have already invested
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
HALLECK is READY O D FOR
RIGHT TO POISON CONSUMER
indiana Scion Declares He'll 10y Down Life in
Fight To Prevent Honest Labelling on Merchandise

One of the most amazing utter
ances ever to emanate from a man
In public life was made recently by
Congressman Charles A. Halleck
(Dem., Ind.), chairman of the Rep
ublican Congressional Committee,
while addressing the Cincinnati
Advertisers Club.
Halleck was in the forefront of
the congressional battle that result
ed in legislation forbidding the gov
eminent to require manufacturers
to honestly label their merchandise.
He told the Cincinnati advertis-
ing men that he is so devoted to
free enterprise" that he is willing
to die in defense of the right of I'M
scrupulous business men to poison
consumers for profit.
Il would lay down my life in the
fight to keep America free of grade
labelling" was how he stated his
position.
He was perfectly willing to take
his chances with adulterated and
dangerous goods and insisted that
every other American should face
the same hazard. If the u~nsuspect-
ing consumer dies as a conse-
quence, he will have the glory of
having sacrificed himself for "a
worthy principle"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

The passing of the Communist party a S a separate political unit
deserves more careful analysis than that of editors who expose their
chronic ant-Russia phobias o. their nervous-Nelle fear of radicals"
1t may safely be argued, we think, that the American Communists
nave long been discredited even in Moscow. That is shown not merely
ny NJ announced dissolution of the Comntern. Even in 1899 Earl Brow
der and his colleagues were completely ignored by the Kremlin and left
IN a ridiculous plight by the Hiuer-Stahn nonaggression pact. AS a
party, the Communists here are subject to virtual suppression, and state
Jaws make m effective challenge to the two major parties impossible
Their last recourse, obviously, is to reorganize into what they call an
educational group.
a little less excitement on the part of our Red-baiers, therefore,
would be welcome now. Some leading demagogues staunchly proclaim
that they are not fooled by Bolshevismhs latest trick" This reveals at
once ther stubborn hostility to Russia and their old delusion that Com
rnunlSm, mere o anywhere else, a be destroyed by abusing Commun-
lsts-a technique they vary by smearIng liberals. Communism has
oeen a menace here, and never will be, unless we fail to solve
our social problems justly. Hunger, unemployment and widespread suf-
ter1ng ar it's breeding ground. and the way to combat Communism is to
use our democratic system to attack such evils in our WV American
Way-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

There is no longer any question
about the military Importance of
aviation. Planes may not win
battles, but through destruction and
terror they may assure victory.
The role of aviation in civil
transport is as yet undetermined.
Postwar planes will carry many
passengers, an increasing quantity
of mail and express and consider
able amounts Of freight. While
bulk commodities Will probably
continue to move on land and
water, other traffic will tend to
take the air.
Air mastery is the key to military
dominance. 1t is also the key to
commercial supremacy. This new
and speedy brain child of applied
science gives him who seeks profits
and power a weapon and a tool of
deadly potency. Hence freedom of
the air" becomes the major issue
before any peace conference.
There are four ways to guarantee
freedom of the air:
l. Have one power control the
air as Britain controlled the seas
throughout the 10Th century. This
power will cripple or destroy any
rival that threatens her supremacy
Since no n power is now supreme
this solution is improbable.
2. Have a concert of three OF
four great powers that will agree
upon quotas of war and civilian
planes, divide air routes and fl,
rates. Like arms limitation and in
ternational economic cartels ans
unions this solution is made diff
cult or improbable by the essenti
ally competitive nature of price
profit economy as we'll as b,
political nationalism.
3. Establish a universal ali
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
GOVT CRACKS DOWN
ON F~LEISCHMANN'S
YEAST FOR 'CURE-ALL'
ADV. CLAIMS

WASHINGTON. - The Federal
Trade Commission has charged that
Standard brands, Inc, sellers of
Fleischmann's compressed yeast,
had disseminated false advertise
ments" concerning the therapeutic
properties and effectiveness of the
product in treating vitamin def
ciencies. The commissions COM
plant stated that the advertisements
falsely represent" among other
things" that persistent colds, ner-
vousness, irritability, poor diges-
ton, tiredness and premature aging
a be effectively prevented or cor
rected by daily administration OF
Fleischmann's compressed yeast.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

AS a consumer" Halleck said,
Il insist upon the right to depend
on the integrity of the men behind
the country's trademarks.
And if, in the end, l poison my
self by eating the wrong kind OF
food, or cut my throat by using the
wrong kind of razor blade, or
freeze to death by sleeping under
the wrong kind of blanket, I shall
go to my reward secure in the
knowledge that 1 have lived ano
died as a free-born American
STANDARDIZATION.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
STAIN, ROOSEVELT
MOVE TO RIGHT

Joseph Stain and Franklin Roose-
welt both made what some term
decisive moves, some cover-up
gestures, to the right. The moves,
which follow, got scant attention
in wartime headlines:
Stain abandoned the Inter
rationale" a song calling for
world revolution and Socialism, as
the national anthem of Russia, say
ing it docs not correspond with
socialist principles of Soviet state
A new anthem, more in the gene
rally accepted patriotic line, has
been adopted.
Roosevelt abandoned the New
Deal" which the nations liberal
elements have pronounced dead to
all practical purposes. He suggest
ed that the name no longer fits
his administration, which should
now be called etwin the war" adj
ministration. Republicans rejoiced,
saying it's useless for FDR to try
to cast off "a soiled BANNER" One
radio commentator suggested that
'sWin the War With Willkie'' is
more fitting "as it has better litera-
ton" All of which would seem to
suggester that liberalism VS.. con-
servatism will no longer be a
major party issue in coming presi-
Dental campaign.
The Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26

three billion dollars in war bonds,
and workers generally are buying
$445, 900, 600 of the bonds monthly
through payroll savings plans. He
predicted that the nations working
men and women will make a sub
stantial additional investment dur
ing the Fourth Loan Drive.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-01-26
ART YOUNG AND
OSCAR AMERINGER
PASS AWAY

Two men, tried and true, recent
ly passed from the scene that was
so much richer for their presence.
One of them, Art Young, died the
day before New Years, just about
when his friends were receiving
from him, the customary New
Years greeting, drawn by himself
and, this time, carrying the cross
inscription: "1944-Four Freedoms
- Maybe More L Yes, and Tehe-
ran," and at the bottom the words:
cts a long road, but now we are
getting somewhere" It's now
Journeys end" for Art Young. The
other man, Oscar Ameringer, died
some three months ago.
Both men were in their seven
ties; both men had been active in
the service of the labor movemtne
over many decades; both were
enormously admired by great num-
bers of people throughout the Unit
ed States and beyond; and both
men died poor, materially, that is,
not otherwise. Which, presumably,
is as it ought to be in this world of
free enterprise" which is very
generous indeed to ability, provid-
ed, of course, that ability is put to
service in the right direction. Both
men could have sold themselves at
a price commensurate with the ex-
traordinary talents each possessed
in his respective field, had they
wanted to do SO. But they didn't
want to do SO, each one %preferring
the enterprise which is really free:
to live in freedom from dictation at
the risk of endangering freedom
from want.
So Art Young and Oscar Amerin-
ger are no longer in our midst, and
the world, our world of men of
ideas and ideals, is by that much
an emptier, a colder place in which
it is our assignment to carry on.
Art Young was a great cartonist.
Oscar Ameringer was a great jour
nalist and a platform speaker of
extraordinary attractivenesS.
The two men were in a number
of ways as different as two men
can be. But in one respect they
were akin. Bith possessed a
of humor, of rare exquisite finesse.
Not that humor which sees only the
funny side of life and breeds shall
low cynicism, but the variety that
the German, Heinrich Heine-on
Hitler's book-burning list-called
Laughter through tears" 1t is the
sense of humor that enables n to
appreciate the reality of human
frailty and the shortcomings Of the
weak before one is ready to con-
denim them, and the bullish pre-
tense and bluff of the strong before
he will yield to them. Ameringer
and Young were, in a broad sense
agitators, as respectable newspa-
pers describe their kind, but while
their laughter was intellectually
murderous it led not to destructive
anger but provoked the desire to dc
things right. The sense of humor Of
an Oscar or Art is a creative force
it is creative both in time of peace
and in time of war, in days of rou
tine living and when revolution i
bent on ~upsetting established socia
applicants. B. S.. Hardman il
The Advance.