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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
BOYS
BECOME PILOTS

Two young men from Har-
din recently were awarded the
silver wings of a pilot upon
graduation from the advanced
two-engine pilot school of the
AAF training command at La
Junta Army air field in Colo
RADIO.
They are Second Lieutenant
James K. Armstrong, 20, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Armstrong
of Hardin and Flight Officer
Leo c. Butkay, son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Butkay of Hardin.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
INFANT DIES

Judith Lynn, eight-months-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Dinsdale, died suddenly
Saturday morning of mening-
ococcus meningitis.
She was born on Apr. 10 of
this year.
Funeral services were held on
Sunday afternoon at the Bulls
Chilly mortuary, with the Rev.
B. N. Nelson officiating.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
BUY PASTIME LUNCH

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ridley
have purchased the Pastime
poolroom and cafe from William
Thompson. They took possession
on Nov. 27.
MI. Ridley formerly operated
a barber shop here and may
move his shop to the new To-
cation.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
HAMMER GETS
GUNNERS WINGS

Harold P. Hammer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Hammer of Har-
din, received his silver aerial
gunner's wings and was promot-
ed to the grade of corporal
when he completed the flexible
gunnery course for radio men
at the Yuma Army air field re-
Gently, according to an army
release.
Prior to his training in flex-
ible gunnery, Cpl. Hammer grad
uated from the radio operators
and mechanics school, Sioux
Falls, s.. D. He is a graduate OF
Hardin high school.
He arrived last Friday tc
spend a furlough with his
parents here.
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
RESUME

After having been stalled BY
heavy rains for almost two
weeks, Americans on Leyte re-
sumed their offensive against
Ormoc, preaching a Japanese
river defense line south of the
Jap stronghold, and driving for
ward in the Ormoc corridor to
the north,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
news review
A Brief Summary
OF Outstanding
News Events
IN EUROPE

Governmental difficulties in
liberated Belgium, Italy and
Greece cause a widening breech
in policy regarding the govern
mentS of the European nations
between Great Britain and the
United States.
In a statement issued Tuesday
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr., said these ma
tons should be allowed to
choose their own governments
without outside interference.
Wednesday, British Foreign Sec
rotary Anthony Eden reaffirm-
ed Britain's right" to pass on
members of the governments of
the liberated European countries.
Opposition parties in Great
Britain are opposing the stand
of the government in regard to
the Belgian, Italian and Greek
governments. Concern regarding
peace policies was expressed in
this country as a result of the
controversy. It was hoped that
a meeting between President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Marshall Stain
might help to resolve the diff
ficultieS.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07
N CROSS SAAR

American Third army troops
effected six crossings of the
Saar river Wednesday, captured
most of the French border city
of Sarreguemines, and advanced
to within six miles of the she'll
blasted industrial Saarland
capital, Saarbrucken. In the
Aachen sector to the north,
Nazi troops launched strong
counterattacks, but were thrown
back with losses.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-12-07

Mrs. M. D. Holmes is in a
Billings hospital receiving medi-
cal care.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
LITTLE LUTHER

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
WAGES AND LEVELS OF LIVING

BECAUSE WAR has brought plenty of work
- upgrading, and overtime, earnings are now al
higher levels than they will be during reconver
sion. With full employment levels of living car
again advance. But with depression, they will fall
below pre-war levels, especially in terms of cur
.ent prices. 1t is estimated that in 1889 seven
eighths of all wage and salary workers earned
ess than $4,000.
Fully three-fourths of American wage earners
(eXcluding governmental, agricultural, domestic
and professional workers) have straight-time
rates under ST an hour, according to study just
made by the War Labor Board. Yet 81 an hour
40 hours week, so weeks a year yields only
$4,000, OF two-thrds of what is now required for
a decent standard of living. Over one-third of
these workers have straight-time rates under 60
cents an hour. In the southern textile industry,
average earnings in December, 1943 were 81 cents
an hour including overtime payments
With victory, the picture will be even worse
under present wage policies, since these earnings
figures include effects of special wartime condi-
tons in addition to overtime upgrading, shifts to
high-paid industries, night shift premiums, and
special incentive systems and premiums.
At present wage rates and 1910 levels of en-
ployment payrolls will be slashed so terrfcally
that business will seek in vain for markets. Manu-
payrolls in the Pacific Coast region
would drop to one-quarter of wartime levels. In
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan
payrolls would be cut by nearly
three-fifths. These estimates are based on wage
rates in the fall of 1943 and the number of hours
worked in the spring of 194O
Such payroll sashes would be felt instantly by
each grocery and drug store, by every doctor and
landlord The whole life of the communities in
yolved would slow down. By strengthening their
unions and backing progressive candidates, Amer
leans can break the Little Steel formula and
achieve enlightened wage policies which will mean
decent family incomes for wage-earners, store
keepers, farmers, and indeed the entire nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
UNION HEAD ADVOCATES THE
ISSUING OF PROCLAMATION
ENDING ARMY Jim CROW"

New York City QLNS).-A nation
wide campaign to urge President
Roosevelt to issue national procla-
nation abOlishing segregation and dis
elimination i'm the armed forces, was
announced here in release by A..
Philip Randolph, president of the
brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The release, issued by Randolph as
national director of the March on
Washington Movement, stated that,
"the Negro people are entitled to this,
and unless discrimination and segre-
CATION are abolished in the armed
forces, the peoples of color will be con-
strained to believe that they are not
to be considered in the making of the
peace as part of the people of man
kind who are to enjoy freedom and
democracy, for which black and white
boys are dying on battlefields all over.
the world. President Roosevelt has
this power and if he uses it, it will be
the greatest act of democracy ill
America since Abraham Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation"
The March on Washington Move
ment asks individuals and organiza-
tiOns to write or telegraph President
Roosevelt requesting such procla-
nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
ABOUT FULL EMPLOYMENT

THE MINORITY in industry that believes there
should be pool of unemployed labor when
peace returns to the world must have beer
shocked by the warning of Maury Maverick man
ager Of the Small War Plants Corporation at the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce this week.
Maverick did not mince words He told the
Chamber that there must be full employment
after this war; greater producton-and higher
standard of living for all Americans. He pointed
out this fact which the few do not like to admit
unless there is full employment we will enter upon
a descending spiral OF deflation which will bring
on the worst depression in world history. Such a
depression, he said, would end the free enterprise
system
These cold facts have got to be faced by all
industry. They mean that both the small plants
and the big industries must be converted to civil
ian use, that great public Improvement projects
must be undertaken, that unemployed war work
ers and veterans must be provided for. They call
for much hard planning.
Mavericks suggestion that the West Coast
give serious thought to the postwar problems and
that a general plan of conversion be developed,
should not be overlooked
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
KEEP THE RECORDS CLOSED

IN WASHINGTON, and perhaps other cities, the
police complain because the u. S. Employment
Service will not disclose the records of registrants
who are alleged to have criminal activities spread
upon the minutes, it were
Some newspapers criticize the service for be-
ing obdurate and resisting all sorts of pressure
and insisting that the law makes these records
confidential even to another government agency
Congress was wise in providing for USES So
cial security and income tax records TO be abso-
lutely confidential. 1t is protection to which all
citizens are entitled. 1t is the only honest way in
which their business can be successfully con-
Quoted
If We let the bars down for any reason even
in war time, it will be easy matter to let them
down later for another reason.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
WLB DECISION is BLOW TO
WHITE COLLAR WORKERS

San Francisco (FP)-Reversal by
the National War Labor Board of a
regional board decision allowing "A 81,
monthly increase to white collar work
ers is a blow to some 1914 900 workers
whose wages are way out of line with
the cost of living
The national WLB ruled that the in
crease violated the hold-the-line order
1t Also ordered the regional board to
abandon its requirement that employ
ers who have rate ranges for a par
ticular job must hire new employees
at the minimum. An employer is now
permitted to hire not more than 25%c
of his new employees within any one
year at rate within his range cor
responding to their ability and eX-
perience.
The regional board will continue to
try to obtain approval from Washing
ton on at least some increase for
clerical workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
HOW ABOUT THIS AMENDMENT?

A NEW AMENDMENT is proposed for the Con
"A stitution Of the United States. 1t would be the
22nd amendment and its purpose is to limit the
power of Congress to tax incomes more than Il
per cent or to tax gifts or to tax estates more
than 25 per cent
You have perhaps heard nothing about this
modest proposal or if you know about it you have
probably given it little thought 1t is one OF those
things which sometimes slip through Congress
and the bang comes later.
If this amendment were law Henry Ford, who
now pays about $500, 600 income taxes on an in
come of $1,00O,000, could be charged no more
than $250,000.
But Joe Smith, who now pays perhaps Sll5
on his So, 900, could have his taxes boosted to
$500.
OF course Congress wouldn't do anything like
that to Joe but under such law Congress could
not collect much from Henry
If all our big-income boys can save such huge
sums by the enactment of such an amendment,
perhaps you can figure how nlAch they will kick
into fund to get such a laWRacross. Circulars
have been sent all inviting contributions, and
you can expect a real campaign for this amend
ment.
To be adopted it must get by Is per cent of
the State Legislatures, so even though Congress
sends it out you will still have chance in your
home state
SO, do your stuff, but don't forget that money
talks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
THAT MONETARY CONFERENCE

NEITHER LABOR nor agriculture are repre-
~ sented at the international monetary confer
ence now going on at Breton Woods in the hills
of New Hampshire. Yet, this conference may eff
feet both the worker and the farmer seriously
Two proposals have come out of the meeting
one for world bank, the other, for a stabiliza-
tion fund 1t is proposed of course, that the Unit
ed States put up most of the cash-and let other
folks run it.
If a world bank is set up and supported by the
billions in American gold it will be more powerful
than almost any government earth. 1t is not
too much to say that the men who control this
bank will rule the world. That is where the big
international bankers come in-we fear.
One Of the slickest international bankers of
all time was Mayer Anselm Rothschd of the
House of Rothschild, who said: Permit me to
issue and control the money of nation, and
care not who makes its laws"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
FULL EMPLOYMENT AND THE G. o. p.
pT ATFORM

THE REPUBLICAN platform promises full en-
ployment after the war-as OF course it would
have to. But the really significant thing is that it
doesn't offer single constructive suggestion as
to how to achieve full employment and prevent a
disastrous depression with millions out of work.
Apparently the Republicans never heard of the
figures which tell us that, owing to the improve
ments in the methods of production and the use
and invention of new machinery, we could pro-
duce as much in 1916 as we turned out in 1910
and still leave five million more people unem-
ployed than were jobess in that year.
We might avoid postwar slump with care
full government planning But the Republican
Senators and Congressman voted almost unani-
mousy to end the efficient government planning
bureau, the National Resources Planning Board,
which was outlining proposals to prevent unem-
ployment by useful government projects and by
methods to insure an adequate increase in pur-
chasing power for the mass of people above the
pre-war level.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03

| Watch now for a recurrence of
| groups for this-and-that kind of a
peace with Germany. Whatever may
happen. within Germany, the groups
of pro-Nazis in the United States can
be expected to revive their propaganda
campaigns for peace that will breed
another war.
| The mother" outfits that loused up
| the landscape before we entered the
war will be at it again. The bundists
will be at it, probably under other
names.
The one thing that will slow them
up somewhat will be the fact that,
though war with Germany ends, we
shall continue to live in state of war
not stop them entirely.
OF all the groups probably the most
thoroughly disgusting are the So
called mother" groups. Mothers" of
this kind and mothers of that.
BY virtue of having been mothers
they make SOME sort of special claim
| to influence.
Motherhood of itself confers moth
ing. Neither does fatherhood, nor any
other kind of relationship.
As a matter of fact, there is en-
tirely too much of the business of
claiming some special rights or in
often unwillingly.
Even the soldier doesn't have too
much special claim, if he ends his SER
vice sound and well.
Doesn't citizenship carry with it an
obligation? Must every service TO
freedom be paid for? Is citizenship a
commodity, subject to barter?
But to get back to the mothers"
We had the Mothers of America" and
it is possible the outfit still exists,
openly or otherwise. They clamored
and generally cut sorry figure of
sordid propaganda.
Be ON the watch for more of such
aggregations, for they will bloom, even
as the green bay tree.
To get-a slant on just how presump-
tious and idiOtic this claim to cOnsid
GRAFTON by reason of motherhood ac-
tually is, ask any one of the profess
sional mothers" of propa ganda stripe
how much they would now care to be
guided by their mothers!
Each member of mother outfit
also had mother. But it's only the
current mother who counts. Let the
"Grandmothers of America" come into
the picture and see how fast the
Mothers of America would run them
off the lot.
Adults stand on their own, or ought
to, whether they are soldiers, farmers
or workers. They do their own work
ing and sacrificing. No tripe about re-
lationship having reward coming be-
cause of this sacrifice ought to get by
with sane and intelligent persons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
WELFARE OF CHILDREN

THE UNITED STATES Children's Bureau has
issued Bureau Publication 303 a public
document, which may be secured by writing to the
u. S. Government Printing Office at Washington
and enclosing fifteen cents. 1t is an 84-page pam
phlet and is filled with golden information for
about every branch of "state and COM
munity planning for wartime and postwar secur-
ity for children" The publication goes into such
subjects as the welfare Of children in peace and
war, security and the home protection of child
health, educational opportunity, social services,
child welfare needs mental hygene, public library
services, juvenile delinquency, and employment
In fact, it is one of the best public
documents Of the year
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
WHERE DO THEY STAND ON THE
IIGORE RIIL2

THE PUBLIC is vitally concerned about what is
going to happen after this war is over. Steps
already have been taken to safeguard business,
agriculture, selvcemen and women On the other
hand, practically nothing has been done for the
over IS million war workers, the men and women
who are providing the "tools' to win this war.
That's why the Potters Herald is repeatedly call
ing attention to the Kilgore Bill now pending in
the Senate. Ii gives workers fair break Up to
date neither party has taken definite stand on
this BILL We would like to see President Roosevelt
and Governor Dewey break their silence and en-
dorse the proposal
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
GOOD WAGES ARE NECESSARY

Washington, ID. G. (ILNS) DE
Thomas Parran, surgeon general OF
the United States, says employment AT
decent wages, wholesome housing con
tant factors the nation dare not dis
regard. He says present system OF
medical care makes impossible salts
factory health programs and advo-
Gates group health plans. Dr. Parran
says majority of 4Fs rejected for COM
bat service could have been cured If
given proper medical attention while
i'm school,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
JEEPS ARE TRUCKS In IOWA

Des Moines, la. ULNS).-Iowa is
one of the first states to classify the
license status of the jeep, the much
publicized army vehicle which civil
ians in increasing numbers desire to
own. If owned by civilian, the jeep
vehicle subject to truck license laws.
The cheapest license for jeep costs
S15, which means that the vehicle can
be operated up to three tons gross
weight. AS truck, the jeep must
carry three flares and be equipped
with refiectors on each side and at the
rear
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
Look Out! Here's Mr.. Runl Aguin


SEEN.
on Mr. Rlmfs
It's idea All wiped
would he Federal sales Taxes individual would $3
Federal
lions would have be raised take social
ne
Mr. un there must be "fl employment after the with
part of the scheme we can readily accept Putting the burden individual in
is
That's
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
] COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Poverty, due to low wages, is large
ly responsible for tuberculosis. This
fact has long been recognized ant
pointed out by organized labor. Now
the same fact is being emphasized ir
Holland and other countries under the
NaZi heel
tuberculosis in Occupied Holland
has increased alarmingly, according tC
an address by a DIR. Hornstra at 6
meeting of the Netherlands Society fol
Combating Tuberculosis, reported In
Het Algemeen Handelsblad, German
controlled Amsterdam paper.
DR.. Hornstra said that it had again
been shown that poverty and hunger
were still the chief concomitants OF
tuberculosis. It's causes, he added
were bad food and living conditions
as well as the increasing psychic bur-
dens' and decentralization of the popu-
latiOn. He asked for better organi-
zation of the fight against the disease
and suggested that tuberculosis be
brought under the control of the law
covering infectious diseases.
"A permanent representative inter
national board with well defined pow
ers must be set up to regulate air
traffic on fair and impartial basis,
says Keith Hutchison i'm a popular
survey of postwar aviation problems
published by the Public Affairs Com
mittee, New York City.
ITO prevent public subsidized
scramble for air traffic we must
build in the spirit of the Atlantic
Charter, which means on the basis of
equal opportunity for all. Planning
must be international. 1t cannot be
carried on by each nation individually
and then coordinated through diplo-
matte channels.
IF we cannot get basic agreement
among the powers providing for uni
versal minimum air rights Hutchinson
asserts, international aviation will
once again become an obstacle race
over and around national boundaries.
Once more there will be hard bargain
ing among nations with each intent on
securing as much of the available
traffic regardless of comparative eff
ficiency. The results will be: O pro-
gressive countries will be held to the
pace of the slowest; (2) fares and
freight charges will tend to freeze at
levels protecting the operator with the
highest cost"
In warning to those who would
have the United States try to mon
OpOlize postwar aviation, Hutchison
points out that there are many privi-
leges which America needs to obtain
from other nations. Such privileges
can only be obtained if we are pre-
pared to grant similar concessions to-
foreign air lines We cannot demand
transit and landing privileges from
small countries while refusing them
outlets.
Moreover, our past experience
makes it clear that world airways will
not foster good neighborly relations if
they are mOnopohzed either by one
nation or by cartel of great powers"
We must find way to modify the
traditional doctrine of air sovereignty
If we are to avoid "muffing the I'M
paralleled opportunity which the air
A loe offers" tha Studv concludes
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
SEVERANCE PAY PACTS ASKED

outlets of the United Automobile
Workers i'm the Southern California
area will seek severance pay. clauses
in contracts with managements in the
near future. Plans call for: up to six
months to one year employment, four
week; over one year, eight weeks
severance pay, based ON the highest 4S
hour weekly rate received by the
worker for the last six months during
which he was employed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
ASKS FOR SAFETY COMMITTEES

San Francisco (FP)-The Bay. Cit
les Metal Trades Council (AF'L) has
called upon all major bay area ship
yards to set UP joint labor-manage-
ment safety committees to take steps
for prevention of accidents. THE high
casualty rate among shipyard work
ers," the resolution says, lis caused by
lack of safety supervision by employ
ers and lack of safety interest by
workers."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
NEW RED CROSS DIRECTOR

Washington, ID. c. ILNS).-Basil
O'Connor, who has been president of
the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis since it was established, has
been named by President Roosevelt to
head the American Red Cross, sue
ceeding the late Norman III. Davis.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03
FACTS FOR ACTION!

COME OF THE basic problems confronting us
- can be handled best through collective bar.
gaining, but much depends on the officials We
select for office. These are facts on but a few OF
the issues which face every one of us right now
But knowledge of facts is not enough Solutions
to our problems can be gained only by action.