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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
NO. 1901.
Cooperative Centennial

It was precisely a century ago that a few taHors in RochdaIe, Eng
land started a movement that assumed worldwide proportions. Today
there are more than 100000 cooperators scattered through many
lands. Their contributions to intelligence, to civilized thinking and act
ing, m even more imposing.
A centennial conference held in Washington recently emphasizes
the phenomenal growth of this movement here in the United States.
1t was announced there that the membership in this country has now
mounted to 100000. Purchases from marketing agencies amounted
during the past year to $3.50 million. This means a gain of Sc per cent in
a three-year period. The cooperative wholesale organizations have gone
into manufacturing and refining operations in a big way. In Canada and
the United States, they own and operate 112 mills, factories and re-
fineries.
The news that the cooperative movement has really taken hold in
this country is important from many points of view. The whole spirit
of this activity is progressive. The Cooperative League of America is
a persistent and successful educational organization. Even the slightest
practical connection with the movement-even if undertaken to save
a cent on the price of corn 0 beans-leads inevitably to habits of mutu-
a better internationaist.
After the first World War, the cooperatives played a fine part in the
work of reconstruction. With their added numbers, wealth and influence
they promise to do even more after the present Wharf.-The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
PROTEST
AGAINST CHILD LABOR

Golfers" is to be commended for
the following editorial comment on
the growing menace of child labor,
mo doubt a lot of these young
sters are being kidded by crafty
employers into considering them
selves big shots Unless we can re
verse this trend in large part, we
will cultivate for ourselves a fancy
crop of yahoos to add to our post
war difficulties.
Wage scales will probably fall
after the war; almost certainly will
fall for unskilled or half-sk1lleo
and unorganized workers.
These kids, then 10, 10 or 20 or
so, will want wartime wages if they
r to work at all, and they will be
semi-literate, opinionated charac-
ters, with scant hope of ever &C
curing any real education.
We better all get busy and with
out delay. 1t is still true that the
biggest single service any boy OF
girl under II can render the wal
effort and the postwar United
States consists of staying in school,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
RATTLE AS THEY WALK

Not many federal employees in
Washington are short of table uten-
sils. It is very difficult to obtain
knifes, forks and spoons in local
stores, but 1000 of them disappear
monthly from government cafe
.erias. Losses are now at all-time
peak. The association which oper-
ates government cafeterias reports
that the loss runs.to IL per cent of
the working supply every month
with the emphasis on spoons.
At some of the government eat
ing places, helpers have been as
signed to hand out the flatware, in
stead of allowing employees to
help themselves, which cut down
the petty thievery but increases
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
Word Of Ill Omen

A haggart, bewiskered young man sits in a hfe-raft and pleads to be
allowed to return to the America he once knew-THE LAND OF The
FREE ENTERPRISE.
This young man pleads from an advertisement on the back page OF
a nationally circulated magazine. He wants a fighting chance, says the
corporate advertiser, to return to the America he left behind.
This young man" the Pigment of some copy writer's imagination,
never met a 17-year-old Marine for whom a gold star now hangs IN a
Denver window. The Marine wrote to a friend lin his boylSh mlsspelllng
before he got to Guadalcanal-that was as far as he got-that for the
first time in his life he had new clothes and that it was sure SWELL to
get three square meals q day.
He hadn't had them at home-because his folks couldn't afford it
before he lied about his age and got in the Marine Corps.
That boy probably didn't want to die. Did he giveshis life and are
the rest of the lie, 600 900 in the American armed forces riskimg theirs
for the purpose of coming back to the same thing they left behind
free enterprise that allowed at least a third of them to go if-clothed and
ilfeed? We think mott Unless we fail to sense the reason for this wa1
our boys m fighting to protect their homes and their nation from in
vasion by Hitler and Hirohto. We seriously doubt that the free-enter
prise system enters their minds any oftener than the Malthusian theory
The Colorado Transfers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
Chase end Dupont

Labor threatens to strike to get justice, and what happens? A hue
and cry is raised that can be heard around the world and labor is de
nounced.
But, the Remington Arms corporation, owned by the Du Pont in
terests, engaged in practices to steal millions upon millions from Uncle
Sam, and set back the war effort by many months, and one story appears
IN the paper and then the matter is forgotten.
Labor insists on only a crumb from the cake which the industriahsts
are getting from government contracts, and again what happens! Pres
ident Roosevelt wants to draft labor to prevent strikes, and an anonyrn-
III spokesman says labor's threats give a lift to German morale and
labor is denounced far and wide in the daily press.
But, comes the Chase National Bank, the biggest in the world, and
what does that bank do but help Germany get vital tools for it's war
production-t0OIS. to produce guns and tanks and planes to kill Amer
lean soldier boys. Do you hear a hue and cry against theChase National
Bank? He'll, No! Do you read editorials in every newspaper in the land
against the Chase National Bank. Again, He'll No!
Labor is the fall guy! Labor can do no right $50 it seems)-but
Chase National Bank, Du Pont and Remington Arms can do n wrong
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
BY SCOTT NEARING

Whatever economic uncertainties
may center about the war, there
a be no question concerning the
huge profits that are being made by
some of the war contractors. Nor
is there any question that the war
profits are flowing into corporate
treasures already filled to over
flowing with undivided profits, de-
probation funds, regular reserves
and special reserves totaling tens of
billions.
A minority report of the senate
finance committee shows the pro
fits of 200 War contractors as a per-
cent of 1912 net worth. The figures
were taken after the payment of
taxes. One large concern made II
percent, a second 33 percent, a
third 40 percent. Other concerns
made 65 percent, 81 percent, 100
percent, 1873 percent, 1877 percent
and up to more than 500 percent.
The 1913 profits of this last concern
were five times its entire net worth
in 1912.
Now comes the rub.
War, navy and other government
officials have been revising war
contracts. Where profits have seem
ed excessive the price of contract
goods has been scaled down with
an eye to reducing the profit
margin.
The act of congress under which
the scalling-down process is pro-
ceeding is under sharp attack. Blu
sinessmen are denouncing the law
as c~onfiscatory and talking about
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
PROFIT WILL RUIN, NOT SAVE,
BUSINESS IN POSTWAR ERA
ONLY Y PROSPERITY WILL MAKE FIRE
ENTERPRISE CLICK x

ruin through government medd-
ling.
The opposition to contract revi-
sion would be ridiculous if it were
not fraught with such tragic pos
sibilities. U. S. business will be
ruined in proportion to the amount
of it's profit-certainly. But the
greater the profit, the surer the
ruin.
What put business on the skids
in 1929? The huge profits made in
1917-1928.
Under a profit economy goods
can be marketed as long as there
are buyers. There are buyers as
long as people have purchasing
power.
Profits, in large part, are not
spent for consumer goods, but are
re-invested. The greater the profit
margin, the greater the re-invest-
ment.
The profits of 1917-1928 created
billions of idle, uninveSted funds
and left great blocks of consumer
goods with no purchasers. Result.
shutdownS, unemployment, de-
creas consumer demand, depres-
sion.
Does u. S. big business want tc
avoid another 8-year depression
like that of the '30s? Then it should
go to the government, hat in hand
and beg the federal authorities tc
squeeze every last penny of profit
out of corporate treasures. There
is no danger that congress or the
administration will go the limit ir
this direction, but the farther they
go the safer big business will be ir
the next 10 years.
Reports from Washington make
one feel that the economic royalists
do not know that their best friends
are those who propose the most
drastic reductions in war profits.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
RUSSIA AND HER
NEIGHBOURS

The surging drive of the Red
Army across the 1889 Polish bor-
der makes it more urgent than
ever that American citizens, in
Guiding congressman and candi-
dates for office, restrict themselves
to responsible language. concerning
the relations of the Soviet Union
with her neighbors.
Almost all Americans desire the
restoration Of a strong and indie
pedent Poland. Marshal Stain has
firmly avowed that such is Rus
sia's desire. The great national
heritage of Poland and the heroic
| sacrifices of the Poles in this war
make that restoration imperative.
! But the U.S.S.R. has also indicated
its intend to reincorporate the sec
lions of eastern Poland inhabited
primarily by White Russians ant
Ukrainians into Russia. This may
not be the time for the Unites
States government to state a rigid
opinion upon this border question
but we, as citizens, should bear
three factors in mind as we con-
slider it:
Russia, more than any other
single nation, is responsible for the
prospective expulsion of the Ger
mans from all of Poland, and thus
for the, prospect that an indepen-
dent Poland can again be consti-
tuted.
No arbitrary declaration by
| America could force Russia to &C
cept again the 1889 border, unless
America backed it, VIGOROUSLY, in
war against Russia thousands of
miles from the United States.
There is strong indication that,
F, once stable relations between Rus
STA and the Polish government are
re-established, the Soviet Union
will be disposed to agree to incor-
poration in Poland of East Prussia,
with its invaluable Baltic outlets
1 dllO SQOSIdllLl01 L OIiOAl pCPdlotlOAA'
Whatever the final settlement OF
the Polish border question, how
ever, and whatever the future
holds for the Baltic states which
once were within Russia and which
Russia desires again as northern
buffers, these questions demand
the most responsible of American
craftsmanship. Therefore, they de-
mand that American citizens APP
proach them as Americans, not as
champions of particular nationals
cliqueS.
For this reason, Wendell Willkie
is to be commended upon his forth
right declaration in~the New York
Times Magazine, warning against
the playing of domestic politics or
Russia's relations with her neigh
4 bors. AS he indicates, there are
factions within both major parties
that seek selfish political advant-
g in amy move that Russia may
make with regard to these smaller
states" Politicians who sink tC
such demagoguery rarely are ac-
tuated by love of the border ma.
tions involved. They hope instead
to gain votes by smearing Russia
Only if we have good relations
with the Soviet Union can we in
fluence her attitude to border sta
ties. And only if we do u part
in creation of a world organization
that promises real collective secur-
ity can we logically ask Russia, not
to "go it alone" in building her
own security.-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
WOMEN BOOST SALES

Last year razor manufacturers
produced an estimated 2.8 billion
blades for civilians, the armed serv-
ices and lease-lend, 400 millions
more than in 1912, but fell short of
meeting the demand by some hum
dred of millions.
One of the reasons given for tile
increased use of blades is the pre-
sence of women in war factories.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16

the manpower drain. It's embarras-
sing when a knife, tee, fall from
an employees pocket as he leaves
the cafeteria, as happens fire.
quently, but no general alarm is
sounded.
So far none of the cafeteria sys-
TENS $4,000 chairs, 5,400 tables
and 1900 trays is missing.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
ALL HAS 100000
IN ARMED SERVICE

Observation-Disclosures than L.
$50, 900 members of the ALL are
now in the armed forces, the jan
uary issue of The American FEEDER
ationist, national A. F. of L. organ,
reported.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16

Mamie-So you managed to get
a loan from the bank? You must
have good letters of recommended
tion2
Mary--I did. l had some love
letters the president once wrote
me!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16
REVISED WORK

I'm proud to say I'm a self
made man"
You're lucky. I'm the revised
work of a wife and three daugh-
ters."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-16

IT well thou hast begun, 60 on;
it is the end that crowns US. not the
fight.-Herrick. :
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17
We Day Should Be Occasion for
Thanksgiving, Not Celebration

VE-Day Los Angeles official Of the down.
Germany of rededcaton to the
finishing against rather than occasion Tor
City Councils
advisory board.
the II leading citizens making the
the job factories
prayerful the
that the home front
o continue back them
the sentiment leaders
industry religion. and entertainment
follows:
Europe the occasion for
in he Pacifc
steady apIan other materials Of
unreStrained celebration causing etdoWn
abSenteeism in the plants.
agencies the
with em responsibility.
hOStiies
Germany prayerful thanksgiving.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17
Brighter Lights
By Ernestine E. Hughes, WAC

Today we pause looking at a brighter tu-
ture and lust over our shoulders at the past
seven weeks, for moment. Fort Huachuca
was put on an inactive status, were told.
but it s work carried on, never wasting day.
We pause this moment to see just how inactive
things were or seemed. We made the head
lines because of our inactive status, yet our
work still carried on . minus the trample of
hundreds of familiar soldiers feet
The Post Script mimeographed newspaper,
was published for your pleasure the suspen-
sion Of The Apache Sentinel to bridge the gap
Shat we were almost certain would be lett
without paper at ALL We hope you,
readers have enjoyed it, for work had to
90 on as in all other departments 1t was
smaller paper, indeed but much harder work
and more effort was used in publishing It,
Fort Huachuca's lights were dimnlcd In
large cities, lights have had to be dimmed be-
cause of this crisis. The blackout method is
used in many cities at present but the work
of those cities must continue.
The lights have come again in Huachuca.
The Post has taken on its little metropolitan
shall we say cosmopolitan look and songs
can be heard as we go about duties. Ca
.dence is heard as we travel along to and fro.
With the coming of the 372nd Infantry
Regiment, 66oth T. DIS and the 227th lnfan-
try Band, the Post takes its old schedule of
hard work interviewer with off duty entertain
ments on larger scale. Yes, work con-
etinues as usual, but to the members of our in
coming outfits, we'd just like to say, were
working with cheerful song in our hearts
"a song with which to greet you.
Our Special Service entertainers at your
service, and we are glad to welcome you. Our
lights are not dim anymore, for we turned
on our brightest when you stepped from the
train
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17
BUY A WAR BOND

The pIace-the only place for money
above living expenses is in War Bonds.
Bonds buy bullets for soldiers!
Bonds buy security for your old age.
Bonds buy education for your kids.
Bonds buy things you'll need later
That you can't buy now.
Above all Bonds buy peace of mind.
knowing that yours is in the fight
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

According to unofficial sources the new
sImplitied income tax now being devised In
Washington contains only three lines
I. What was your income for the year J
2. How much have you leftp
3. How much have you left2 Ns
Send it in 90
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17
I: "Halt, who's there ?"

Sentry: "Halt, who's there?"
Voice: can American"
Sentry: Advance and recite The Star
Spangled Banner
Voice: 81 don't know it."
Sentry: Proceed, American" /
Norman (Okla.) Bull Horn
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Long Beach, Calf (CNS)-The will of
Ellis Scates 76, leaves $3.50 to local church
with this note appended st. Peter Take
Motel
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Austin. Tex. (CNS)-Cats know more
about beauty makeup than women do, ac-
cording to beauty expert. If you want to
learn the basic principles of feminine charm
study cat while she's washing her face" he
told gathering of local ladies. There's no
living thing that knows more about makeup
than the ordinary alley cat :
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17
CORPORAL OUTsMARTs sARG

CORPORAL OUTSMARTS SARC
Did you hear about the corporal
Who put fifty dollars in War Bonds
Before the sergeant could get
Crap game started?
Camp Lejeune Globe
Passenger: What makes this train so late
porter2"
Porter: Well, you see, there's train in
front that's behind which we can't be before.
Bevoir Castle
Chicago (CNS)-The cigaret shortage has
become so acute here that Virginia Thatcher
who the tobacco counter in hotel here
is smoking cigars. Keeps them from asking
for cigarets, she explains.
The PIX is place
That's known to fame and glory
But every time | visit there
They're closed for inventory.
cambridge Zoom.
Portland, Ore. (CNs)-Honesty paid for
Ed Kane. He found wallet containing $40
He returned it to its owner-and received
$25.0 reward
Love is game that is never called off
on account of darkness.
Tuskegee Hawks Cry
Jefferson City, Mo- (CNS)-Because of the
tobacco shortage, Richard Arens passed out
matches instead of cigars in announcing the
birth of daughter.
A farm boy, after watching one Of Uncle
Sans tanks maneuvers, wrote to the Sec
| retary of War: Please reserve me one of
them tanks when you sell them after the war
With one of those we can do our fall plowing
without fear of being killed by the city hunters
hunting deer
Camp Livingston louisiana
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Jefferson City, Mo. (CNS)-Because of the
tobacco shortage, Richard Arens passed out
matches instead of cigars in announcing the
birth of daughter.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

The PIX is a place
That's known to fame and glory
But every time visit there
They re closed for inventory.
cambridge Zoom.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Love is game that is never called off
account of darkness.
Tuskegee Hawks Cry
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Sometimes" said the mistress to the new
maid, it will be necessary for you to help
the butler upstairs
| understand Madam replied the girl.
i drink bit myself
(Ontario, Canada) Observer If
The Apache sentinel., 1944-09-17

Portland, Ore. (CNS)-Honesty paid for
Ed Kane. He found wallet containing $40.
He returned it to its owner-and received a
500 reward.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
HELP MEN,
HANDICAPPED MEN

| II you are slightly handicapped and
can use your hands, we'll teach you a
vel, paying mechanical trade. Paid while
learning; lifetime opportunity. Apply
daily before noon Rothstein Dental Labo-
ratorles, 1722 Eye st. NV.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
HELP MEN AND WOMEN.

TEIP MEN AMI WOMEN.
COLORED couple, wife as cook. man to
near Annapolis. Phone Franklin sl2o.
COUPLE, colored, on farm, nearby Mary
land; Man do farm work, woman to
be reliable and experienced. Apply 1921
COUPLE, colored, or man or woman
wanted as cook in small country hotel on
good gsooed salary; Write or telephone A; NJ.
California Nd. Telephone Great Mills
FARM AND GARDEN WORK, care for
SO, some stock and CHICKENS; good living
EXTENDED. Alex,, Va. R, F. D. No. 5
MAN OR WOMAN, young, wanted to sell
mems furnishing, no experience necessary;
Woodrow Men Stores. ABB 9th st. NV 2Ss
SODA FOUNTAIN and lunch cept man
ager. Apply s. s. Kresge Co, 6e6 Pa
ave. Sc.
PHONOGRAPH RECORD and sheet music
salespeople, men and women, with or
without experience. Apply
Mr.. Burroughs,
BALLARD'S,
Evening star., 1944-05-27
MAID, coLORED. APPLY IN PERSON,
BLACKSTONE HOTEL.
1016 nth Qt w

GIRLS or young ladies' for part or full
time work; In store or once; with or with
out knGTlsdss MhW 19h q sypinSI 4RIrqeD qo9D pay.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-08-03

1t. and Mrs. Curtis Gibson Of Mari
anna, Fla, spent last week with MI
and Mrs. Wallace johnson and Mr.. and
Mrs. E. r. Gibson Of Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Howell left We'd
nesday for Memphis and other points
on a vacation trip.
Mrs, r. c. Elmore left Wednesday for
Senatobia where she will visit her
brother. She has been visiting her daugh-
ter. Mrs. George Povall in Lexington
this week.
Cpl. Marcus Love, Jr., visited his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Love, last
week. He returned to Topeka, Kansas,
where he is stationed in the Air Corps.
..8Miss Ann Howard will return Satur-
tay from a months visit in Muskogee,
Okla, and st. Louis.
Pvt. Herman Odom, Jr, Keesler Field,
visited home over the weekend.
Mrs. Annie Ethel Boothe, of Acona'
VISITED MRS. y. n. DyIu enAS "SS
Miss Mary Franklin Moore is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Moore.
W.. S. Heggie and S. R. King have re-
turned from a s~ojourn at Hot Springs,
Ark.
Miss Mamie Clark spent her vacation
at Ridgecrest, N. C.
Donald McCune returned to his home
in Oregon some time ago after visit
ing his mother, Mrs. w. Z. McCune.
Mrs. Lillian Ernst, of New York, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
/. Rhyme. The latter also have as their
guests Patricia Stout, of Memphis, and
Mary Rosamond Rhyme, of Montgomery,
Ala, their grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Myers are visiting
relatives in Illinois.
J. E. Ham visited Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Ham at P~ascagoula recently.
Mrs. Joe York, IT,, will leave Friday
for Chicago. She will be accompanied by
Lynn and George Cooper who will join
their mother, Mrs. Robert Cooper there
Mrs. Clay Gum was a Jackson visit
OF Tuesday.