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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21
BOOK REVIEW
"AMERICA'S ROLE IN ASIA"
BY HARRY PAXTON HOWARD

Peace is the uppermost wish in the
hearts Of people the world over but
to build and plan intelligently for a
lasting peace requires an understand
ing of the relations of the Western
Powers to Asia. In his hook, Amer
ica's Role in Asia, Harry Paxton
Howard pulls no punches in explain
ing these relations and exposing the
underlying issues that led to our war
with Japan.
The history of Asia, and China espe-
cially, since the rise of European
civilization" has been one of ex-
ploitation by Western powers-Eng-
land, France, Germany, Holland, and
later the United States. In every in
stance when democratic leadership
arose in Asia and threatened private
interests the Western powers have
been successful in crushing it.
In Japan there has been for many
years a conflict between the "Buski"
(the militarists) and the democratic
forces. Great Britain and United
States have aided the Bushi in every
way possible and are directly respon-
sible for their rise to power. Only
when the British Labor party was
strong in Great Britain was the jap
anese democratic force, or "parlia-
ment" in power in Japan and then
they consistently opposed foreign
wars and aggression.
American and British capital fl
nanced the militarists in their push
into Korea and Manchuria. We first
encouraged China in a war against
Japan and then sent war materials to
Japan in their conquest of China and
not until Japan moved farther south
and threatened the interests of the
Western powers did we stop shipment
of these materials.
The author brought out many perth
nent facts about the history of the
Chinese republic and our shameful
part in trying to crush it; the open
Door" policy and why we ourselves
lately closed the open Door" work
ings of the Kellogg Peace Pact and
Stimsons part in the Japa-
nese war against China; Chiang-Kai-
shek's regime, supported financially
by the United States, ruling through
a party dictatorship and pledged to
the protection of our treaty rights in
China; how we lost our imperial priv
ileges in China when we were forced
to give up our vicious extraterritorial
rights; the part played by co-opera-
tives in China and Japan, the Western
powers underlying fear of commun-
ism; and how and why Moscow twice
betrayed Chinese communism.
Americas role OF intrigue, power.
politics and exploitation in Asia has
been a shameful one Our role in the
future should be based on racial equal
ty and cooperation with genuine
forces. The author in
lists that "a FREE Asia is the surest
and an indispensable part
If a free world. Our one hope for
,eace lies in popular government, de-
roting itself to struggle against pow
,rty and famine and economic and
social injustice, instead of to con-
ipiracy and intrigue and war against
mes neighbors- Elsine Peterson, in
rhe Pioneer.
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hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
first day of April 1914.
JOHN j. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21
Have you registered to vote
yet? If not, do so NOW!

NEWARK, N. 1.-THE United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Workers
Union, Local 447, is publishing a
weekly shop paper in Chinese for
several hundred workers in the Fed
eral Telegraph and Radio Co., produc-
ing communications equipment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21

Editor of The Voice
Helena, Montana
There are a number of alarming
things about the domestic scene, but
the gripping of the wartime public is
not one of them. We wouldn't be
Americans if we didn't bellyache. If
the Good Lord himself were in the
White House we would still have the
chronic gripes most of whom are re-
actionarys and isolationists.
In my opinion our President has ac-
complished marvellous job taking us
from an income of 43 billion in 1888
to an income of $50 billion in 1913.
Labor and the farmers in particular
should be grateful for his attitude and
help towards their welfare even if
some of the racketeer leaders have
now turned on him
Don't forget he has placed in in
fluential positions men irrespective of
their politics, and who then turned
on him to give the New Deal a black
eye If there ever was time when
we shouldn't change Presidents this
is certainly the time.
Consider some of the screw ball
senators he has had to contend with.
Our own Senator Wheeler for in
stance whose vanity had been Of
Tended at getting the vice presi-
Dental nomination and at being
passed over for attorney general when
Senator Walsh died, and who has ever
since fought the President
Regardless of the Wheeler machine
the President didn't get
us into this war and anyone thinking
he did should read some of the books
on the subject now being published:
Under Cover, "Who Are Our Enc
mics, Sabotage, etc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - U. S. Sen.
Joseph F. Guffey told the Polish-Am-
erican Citizens League at a banquet
here that Polish-Americans can best
serve Poland "by remembering that
the real fury which fell on their coun-
try came from nazi Germany"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21

and filibustering over this matter in
congressional halls is disgraceful
thing to witness and to make a polit-
ical issue out of a fundamental right
but shows how low people can sink.
A. E. ANDERSON.
Butte, Mont, April II, 1914
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21
Editor, Peoples Voice

Surely the letter written by Fred
Alter is of interest as it brings up
again the tariff argument of the past
and its results as applied to protection
to primary producers in both farmer
and labor classes.
Let us go back to World war No
for instance. At that time the pro-
duce of United States was badly
needed in Europe but a money means
of exchange being lacking an ex-
change system of commodities was
necessary and let us consider how it
worked out. An effort was made by
needy European producers to ship
commodities to the United States and
when they reached the tariff wall our
government of course, demanded a
tariff payment and upon such pay
ment entrance was permitted and
sales were made on basis of United
States competition prices Let us
now see how it met their needs, TAX
ing pork for an illustration.
Upon selling the imported commodi-
ties upon which they had paid the
government schedule price, they
wished to make the exchange to pork
only to discover the packers Of the
United States had added the tariff as
per government schedules, plus any
profit that could be obtained by an
importer so to meet his needs on a
United States market on basis of COM
modify exchange, they had to pay a
duty to the government on outside
the tariff wall and like duty to pro-
tected packers on inside with result
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Legal Advertising

hereunto subscribed my name and af-
fixed my official seal, at the State
Capitol in the City of Helena, this
first day of April, 1914.
JOHN J. HOLMES, State Auditor
and Commissioner of Insurance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21
OPINIONS OF READERS

The Voice dagrees with the opinions expressed Letters sub
mtted subject matter
cussed degree at least effectively letters will
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
Well Advised

The education Of our children is Of primary
Importance. So is their health.
This is why the further consideration Of ad-
ditional delay in opening the public schools
is well advised, especially as the health Of
ficer, Dr. A. H. Elliot, has said that the polio
outbreak has not yet reached the peak.
New Hanover county has been more for
tunate than some others in North Carolina.
Only seven cases have been reported, and
none has been fatal. But this is not proof
positive that more might not develop if every
precaution against spread of the disease were
not taken.
1t is now planned to open school on Sep
TENDER 10. In the meantime the peak may
have been passed and the danger of other
cases become remote If, on the other hand,
the outbreak continues the authorities will be
justified in ordering a further postponement
Even a month lost at school would be small
price to pay for saving child's life.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
The Siegfried Line

| Allied armies in western Europe are NOV
ing so fast that news of their progress can
not keep up with them. All that we know is
that the battle has resolved itself into race
between retreating German forces and ad-
vancing Allied armies for the Siegfried line.
The Germans are making little effort to
stop the Allies en- route. Such rearguard ac-
tions as have taken place have been so dis
astrous and costly that the German high COM
mand appears to have abandoned all thought
of stand anywhere east of the Rhine and
lis encouraging its troops to increase their
sprint for the Siegfried line where the indica-
tons are a last ditch stand will be made.
This brings up a question as to how well
the Germans are prepared to defend the line
and how well it is equipped. The ultimate
victory over the enemy will depend, at least
so far as time is concerned, on their ability
which has driven them so fast from the soil
of France.
When Hitler was overrunning Europe at will
he ordered much of the heavy artillery moved
from the Siegfried line to other fronts-some
into Norway, some to the Russian front. Now
there is a mad scramble to get it back into
position to resist the Allies on this last line
of defense. Can Hitler get it into position or
has he waited too long?
1t is pointed out that had he begun to re-
equip the Seigfried line when the Allies in
vaded France he might now be in better posi-
ton for showdown there, but to have done
so would have amounted to a confession of
weakness and contradicted Hitler's word to
the German people that however serious the
German position might be victory would in
the end be his. Hence the guns that he sent
elsewhere were not taken back and now the
frenzied effort to get them set up may well
prove too late to cause more than tenn
porary halt OF the Allied advance into the
Reich.
1t is apparent, however. that the most des-
perate fighting on the western battlefields Of
Europe is just ahead unless, indeed, the Al
lied command, which has shown consummate
strategy in outguessing the enemy, succeeds
in thanking the Siegfried line, as the Germans
did the Maginot line some four years ago.
and overflows the fatherland out of reach of
its fire.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
EASTERN TOBACCO
AVERAGES &2.O3

RALEIGH, Sept. q R Gross
sales during the opening week on
the eastern North Carolina flue-
cured tobacco markets, amounted
to only 16,156,716 pounds at an ave-
rage price of $4203 per hundred
and were the lightest sales for the
first Of the season in many years,
the War Food Administration said
today.
However, the VIA aid deliver
les increased sharply for Fridays
sales and a larger colume for next
weeks sales, which will open on
Tueday, September 5, is antici-
pated. Monday, September 4, will
be observed as a holiday because
of Labor Day.
The general average was 3.37
higher than the 1943 opening week
when 1892, 0o8 pounds were sold
at an average of 1886 per hun
dred. Average prices by grades
were up in all cases. Most gains
amounted to two or three cents per
pound, but Common green leaf ad-
vanced 5 cents. Increases in non
descript grades ranged from two
to six and one-haf cents per pound.
The bulk of the tobacco sold at
40 ad AS with some selling at
At and .48.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
i. S. Airmen Freed

Liberation of LOO American airmen in Bill
charest on order of King Mahai immediately
upon his proclain1ing an armistce in Rumani
and the unshackling of communication with
the Allied world means that many households
in which there has been grief for men renorted
missing in action will learn their loved ones
are safe and well.
Among them are some who went down in
that costly first lowlevel bombardment OF
Ploesti more than year ago.
The word is that all of the LOO have been
well treated and since their release from mill
tary Imprisonment have had the run of the city
1t Will be somewhat tougher for Hitler when
they are given new planes and re-enter the
war-after they have been given leave of alb.
sence and visit home
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Treat 'em Rough

The resignation of Charles E. Wilson from
the vice craftsmanship OF WPB, and the state
ment that accompanied it, reveal symptoms
of a distressing malady that has been crop
ping up periodically in Washington since the
war started. Some people call it Potomac
fever
The malady is likely to afflict the most
earnest and patriotic government executives.
1t is marked by what might be called a big
oted viewpoint of political theology-a feeling
that salvation lies in ones own political or
economic gospel, and in that gospel alone
1t afflicts the patient with myopia, causing
him to lose sight of distant detectives, such
as the war that is being fought and the people
affected by the patients judgment. It makes
the patient forget results and become en-
crossed in the means toward the result.
Very likely the malady has stricken the
principals in the most recent case, as well
as the subordinate WPB officials whom Mr..
Wilson mentioned without identifying It does
not, however, reflect upon the sincerity or
good intentions of any of them.
This malady is seldom harmful to the pa
tient but it can be quite uncomfortable for
the victims of the symptoms. And there have
been known cures for this bureaucratic fever.
Sometimes it is necessary to get the patient
out OF the Washington climate But on other
occasions it has been found that some straight
talk or rough handling by a higher-up will
bring the patient out of it.
Perhaps that cure ought to be tried more
from now on, rather than trusting that the
disease will cure itself.
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mouth of the Adour, where that
river is joined by the Nive from
the south, lies Bayonne. Well
equipped, deepwater wharves and
basins mark the waterfront, old
Notifications and a cathedral stand
out on the skyline Of this city of
%, 500 people. Small boats may
wind inland so miles on the Adour,
II miles on the Nive.
South of the Adour the typical,
dune-covered coast of the Landes
reaches four miles to the northern
edge Of Biarritz, where rocks ap.
pear offsnore. This change in the
character of the coast marks the
point where the foothills OF the
Pyrenees reach the sea. Biarritz,
backed by nigh cliffs and noun
tain heights, has long been fash
ionable shore resort.
Seven miles south of Biarritz
on this rocky French Basque coast
is sheltered anchorage in the Bay
of st. Jean de Luz, like Biarritz
a popular resort. Three miles far
Their is anchorage made by Cap
Higuer on the west. Here the
F-ench-spanish right-angle turn in
the coast is virtually complete, and
just beyond, the estuary of Rio
Bidasoa, with Hendaye village on
it's French (east shore, marks
: the boundary.
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The Eastern Front

AS with the war in the Far East, the pres
ent spectacular campaign in France has d.
verted much attention from the battle on the
Eastern 'front.' Dewitt Mackenzie, the Asso-
ciated Press war analyst, has brought it back
to mind in an article which shows how things
going in the area of Russian combat. The
vast Eastern front, he writes is verging on
explosion, especially in the Balkans and he
adds, when that blow-up ZONES we shall get
the full pressure necessary for quick crush
ing of Germany"
He sees it this way:
"Hiter's hold on the Balkan peninsula was
to all intents broken when the Red armies
steam-rollered into the heart Of Romania Not
only has Bulgaria-bad lad of the Balkans
raced for cover to escape the Allied storm.
but Hungary-keystone of Germany's south
eastern military and political defenses is
shaking like an autumn lead and is said to
be seeking a way to escape the Fuehrer's
clutch.
But the Balkans have been more than a
bulwark for southeastern Germany They've
been powerful shield for the southern flank
of Hitler's last great line of defense east of
the Reich-that along the Vistula river With
the Balkans gone, the dictator can't long hold
the Vistula and the East Prussian front Then
will come the big squeeze on both sides Of
the fatherland.''
Mr. Mackenzie proceeds from this to brief
discussion of what the AllieS propose to do
in the closing phase of the war in Europe
His view substantiates what has been said
in these columns in recent days, to wit, that
the only way to end the war in the interest
of a safe future for the world is to carry
it to the Reich proper. He writes:
The Allies are bent on invading the Reich
Eisenhower made that clear in his statement
to the press Thursday. He also reiterated hi
prediction of last winter that il everyone OF
the battle front and ct home does his duty
the Allies win the European war in 1914
'As matter of fact, while nobody want.
to see the conflict protracted there's wide
---Aad feeling in Allied countries that tn,
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about all those Poles that were
living in the part that Joe took and
we never did get any true reports
what happened, but We did hear
he sent lot of them to Siberia
and those Ukrainians, too, that. he
didn't trust, what happened to
them?
@. By Senator Nilly) And what
about Quisling and Laval?
A. By Mr.. Spelvin) Well, 1 think
like you do on that, and 1 certainly
would burn them down, but when
you are out after traitors, why the
way see it as an American. why
l see it as an American
there was a lot of other traitors
there in France and they did their
worst to louise up France so Hitler
could walk in, and it was the same
in our own country but now they
call those buns patriots and. ex-
cuse me, l don't know whether you
are democrat or not, but President
Roosevelt he lets those dirty rats
no-account, low down communist
traitors get jobs in our government
like the Dies committee said. and
now tney are all mixed up in Sid
ney Hillman's communist outfit
So
tby Senator Nilly) The committee
THANKS you mr.. Spelvin.
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Bay of Biscay Shore
Lined By Sand Beaches

Frances southern Bay of Bis
cay shore line has been brought
into the news by the taking over
OF the F1ench-Spanish border by
French Forces of the Interior and
by reported shellings of coastal
areas by Allied warships. This
region which extends from the
mouth OF the Gironde river to the
Pyrenees foothills approximately
one-fifth of the airline length of
the entire western COAST is an
almost unb-oken stretch of sandy
beaches backed by sand dunes,
says the National Geographic So
ciety.
Inland behind from three to four
miles of dunes are the Landes,
flat sandy plains, formerly marsh
land, now covered with a growth
of pine trees and few cork oaks.
The monotony of this 125-mile
stretch of sandy beach is broken
only by the resort and oyster town
OF Arcachon, the red-roofed houses
and occasional church spires of a
dozen villages. and sprinkling of
beacons and lighthouses.
At the north end Of the region,
the estuary of the Gironde gives
entrance to the extensive harbor
facilities of Bordeaux. At the
southern end of the coast three
miles up the Adour, is another
river po-t-Bayonne.
Behind the dunes of the Landes
coast a thick barricade Of pine
trees successfully retards inland
movement Of the sand. This was
part of the French engineering
achievement in retaining the re-
gion. The Landes are a flat, for
ested plain of fine sand, reaching
70 miles inland at some points
and having an area twice the size
of Delaware.
Until Lafayette's day this lake
dotted region was unhealthy marsh
land, swamped by an average an
nual rainfall of more than four
feet. A cement-like layer beneath
the surface sand prevented drain
age, and natives Travelled the boys
On high stills. Then an elaborate
network of bitches was started to
drain the water into streams and
lakes.
Gradually transformed. t h e
Landes have since been SYSTEM
atically planted with pines and
cork oaks. The dunes no longer
migrate, and mans conquest of
nature has resulted in new indus
tries producing pine lumber, tar,
resin, cork, and charcoal. Stock
raising thrives in parts of this
made land, and it's once brackish
lakes are now fresh.
Large lakes in the north and
smaller lakes toward the south
lie close behind the coast dunes.
The pines prevail in the north; the
cork oak forests are thickest in
the south. South of Arcacnon, Mi
mizan and Cap Briton are resort
villages that were once busy ports.
but shifting sands ended most of
their commerce.
Inland three miles from the
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cause Of lasting peace will best be served ii
the United Nations are compelled to invade
GERMANY and give the population proper
c1ose-rn of fighting. True, the turning OF the
Reich into a battle field might release an
uncomfortable flood of violent hatred on Ger
mans from the millions of foreigners whom
Hitler imported as slaves. Still, tie Germans
would learn even from that
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The Road To Berlin
CBy The Associated Press

(By The Associated Press)
Russian front 322 miles from east
ern suburbs of Warsaw
2-Northern France 40 miles from Sc
dan)
3-Southern France 595 miles from Vol
ROM
4-Italian front $50 miles from Pesaro)
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Fair Enough

Nditor's Note:-Ths Star and the Nsys accept NO
re.pensibility for the personal vevv II Mr fsgisr
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY


Go and try to save soul, anu you
viii SEQ how well it is worth saving, how
capable it is of the most complete SALIVA
ton. Not bypondering about it nor by talk
ing about it, but by saving 1t, you learn
Its preciousness.
Phillips Brooks
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Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
The inside on the Washington scene of
interest to the CarOlinas.
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Sept 2.-While the Charlotte
Office of the Defense Plant corporation has
been authorized by the Reconstruction Finance
corporation to sell machine tools and other
industrial equipment not now needed in the
war effort, Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones has issued a warning that spectators
are barred from such purchases.
Those who desire to acquire this equipment,
whether owned by DPC or other government
agencies, must show intention of utilizing it
in the operation of industry. Jones said the
government is offering the Acknowledgements
plan to purchasers who prefer it to cash buy.
ing.
The plan further provides that sales involv.
ing less than 100000 credit may be made
without referring the matter to Washington
Jones promised quick Geographic action on
sales of more than 100000.