Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-04-26
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Spokesman Tor the Credit Bureau
of Greater New York, addressing
the top executives of a chain-store
organization, suggested that Ne
groes be discouraged from coming
into the stores by cancellation of
their charge accounts. The sugges-
ton was rejected, on the ground
that it was un-Christian.
The Texas State Guard is being
trained in the handling of riots and
tthe protection of vital industries"
The program has the backing of the
Christian American Association,
which has been active in pushing
anti-labor laws through state legis-
! latureS, and whose leadership in
cludes men who have long dealt
in anti-Semitism, anti-C Catholicism,
and anti-Negro activity.
The WPB omitted mentioning
important item in its report on ex-
ira paper grants for 1943. Tide, an
advertising trade magazine, has
smoked out the admission that the
Readers Digest was granted 1,O61
tons in February, bringing its total
extra tonnage for the year to 2,484
tons, the largest for any magazine
-. The Cross and the Flag, Gerald
L. K. Smiths nti-Administration,
/ anti-British, anti-Russian and anti
Chinese magazine, carries in its
current issue an editorial whose
content is summed up in it's final
sentence: "God bless the Readers
Digest"
This bit of jumbled German his
tory is contained in an advertise
, ment by Warner and Swasey (tur-
ret lathes): 'The German govern
ment ended unemployment by gov
eminent work. The German gov
eminent owned and operated the
railroads, controlled the press and
radio, guaranteed universal educa-
ton, supported unions, assured me-
dical care, limited corporation pro-
fits-did all the things many Amer
leans want our government to do.
| Of course the German government
became a dictatorship, as all such
paternalistic governments always
do"
An essay contest in Columbus,
Ohio, on the general subjest What
to Do with Adolf Hitler" was won
by a sixteen-year-old Negro girl.
Her idea, as reported by a religiuos
magazine, is to put the Fuhrer into
a black skin and make him spend
the rest of his life in America.
Catholics in the diocese of Con-
necticut are forbidden to have any
thing to do with Russian War Re
lief.
Army ordnance, headed by Gen
eral L. H. Campbell, recently pre-
pared a brochure asking for sug-
gestions and distributed it to ord
nance officers in the field and to
production engineers. Fifty-six per
cent of all the ideas submitted were
found feasible.
Robert P. Gerholz, president of
the National Association of Home
Builders, was recently quoted in
the Daily Journal of Commerce,
Portland, Oregon, as saying that
public housing is the builders num-
ber-one fight after the war and the
Federal Public Housing Authority
their number-one opponent. Its
up to the private builder to see that
the FPHA does not get a single ap-
preparation with which to finance
housing in the postwar period" he
said public housing -. makes
for class segregation" This is news
to West Coast shipyard workers
living in public-housing develop
mentS.
Festung Europa: When a NorWe-
gian street car is crowded these
days, the conductor cheers up the
passengers by calling, Withdraw
according to plan to the real of the
carl" 80. Since the Nazis have de-
prived non-Nazi pastors in Norway
of the right to perform marriages,
SO per cent of the marriages have
been civil ceremonies, followed by
a church blessing" administered
by a non-Nazi pastor.
Three soldiers in German uni
forms ordered coffee at a small res
taurant in Czechoslovakia. The
waiter shouted to the kitchen, in
Czech, Three coffees with rat poi
SON." One of the soldiers stood up
and corrected the order, shouting to
the kitchen, in Czech: "Only two
coffees with rat poison, please. l