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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
Unreasonable Secrecy On Foreign Affairs


Franco to mediate between the
United States and Argentina.
But the American people also
have a right to learn that their for
eign relations are being conducted
in an atmosphere of such dense
secrecy that the diplomatic goings-
on of the European chanceries
seem, by contrast, as clear as dis
titled water.
And having realized this fact,
they have a right to resent it. Re-
senting it, they have a further
right, once in a while, to r~epudiate
agreements negotiated at midnight
under the backstairs.
The trend in the United States is
toward more, not less, democracy.
The need of the hour is a people
better, not worse, informed This
means a closer osmosis between
the administration and the citizens.
1t means less secret diplomacy and
Hauntie-knoWs-best" stuff on the
part of our public servants.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
A New Knight Of the Order
OF St. Gregory

While the surge of wrath over Noel towards booish remark was
still at its height another insult was flung into the face of Brooklyn.
On November % Bishop Thomas E. Molloy announced that Pope Plus
had made Patrick +. Seaman, managing editor Of the Brooklyn Tablet
a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, for distinguished serv-
ices to religion and charity" Now St. Gregory the Great was a social
refornner. He might even be called a New Dealer. The order bearing
his name, says the Tablet, was founded specifically to reward social
virtue. The six other prominent Catholic laymen of the borough who
received the honor at the same time are all highly conservative, not to
say reactionary, but they all have impressive. records of civic achiev-
ment. Scanlans record, however, is that of a cautious Coughlin. Lack
ing the Detroit denagogues gifts of oratory and showmanship, he has
promoted the same doctrines more quietly and perhaps more effectively,
His newspaper, a comparatively sophisticated version of the old Social
Justice, has given aid and comfort to the Christian Front and he has
associated himself publicly with such protested contemners of demo
cracy as MerWin K. Hart, Joseph P. Ramp, and John Eoghan Kelly.
All things considered, We can hardly believe His Holiness intended this
particular bestoWal of knighthood to be taken seriously. Humor is not
inconsistent with the Papal office. St Gregory himself is said to have
made some pretty terrible Latin puns. But these r. serious times, and
Brooklyn has already had to bear too grievous a burden of amused
contempt. ~
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

#ME &NHN#aNaf@AM
A Negro sailor in the United
States navy reports that On his last
trip to England he and a friend
went to an American Red Cross
club in a port town and were turn
ed away at the door with these
words: This isn't an English club;
it's an American one"
From an editorial in the Chicago
Tribune of November 20: THE
news from abroad makes it clear
that Europeans generally have no
real appreciation of the sacrifices
that the war has imposed on Amer
lea"
Alnico, a highly magnetic alum
mum alloy developed by Professor
Tokushici Mishima of Toxic I'm
perial University and introduced
into this country shortly before the
war, is now being used in Ameri-
can military radios and other
equipment. In releasing this in
formation to the press, E. F. Nc
Donald, president of Zenith Radio
| Corporation, took occasion to say,
"The little yellow Jap is being
nicked daily with his own alnico."
"Yank," the army magazine,
doesn't think much of the postwar
/ world the advertisements offer.
"The homes that wait for us" it
says, in its issue of December /,
will be a tidy combination of
Hans Christian Andersen and
Jules Verne. They will be inch
thick with glass and plastic, but
theyWill have all the allure of the
rose-coveted cottage of honeymoon
dreams. Television receivers, thin
ly disguised as tiger-skin rugs; will
disgorge fried chicken from a hid.
den glove compartment. 1t will be
a world like you've never seen this
side of a Section VIII ward. It will
be honey and new, and shiny anC
soft, and cheap and expensive, anc
thick and thin, and sharp and dull
1t will be everything and nothing
A headline in the financial sec,
ton of the New York Times o.
December 6 said, Stocks CO
Through Highs for October" The
story explained the boom thus
Some brokers said that invest,
ment circles viewed favorably the
shake-up in the State Department
in Washington, and predicted thai
henceforth diplomacy and bushes.
would be tied closely together"
An article in the London "Daly
Mail" discussing the Nazis' new
rocket bomb concludes: Trans,
atlantic rocket shells of up to 10(
tons must be regarded as a distinc'
possibility within five years"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
GENERAL DE GAULLE

General de Goulle's achievement
in Moscow has dispelled all doubts
as to his talent for high politics.
In the astonishingly rapid renais-
sance of France the gallant gen.
eral of the resistance movement
has become a statesman. On the
one hand, he has been firm in his
demands that Washington and Lon
don give his government full re-
cognition and in refusing to be
treated as a poor relation. And on
the other hand, he was ready to go
anywhere to find security and JUS
tice for his nation. The road led to
Moscow. In sixteen days, a record
for negotiations of this kind, "a
treaty between Russia and France
was signed similar in many re-
spects to that concluded by Great
Britain and Russia in 1912. SINH
lar, but politically much more i'm
portant. 1t surpasses in significance
the traditional alliance between
France and Russia, of which the
French-Soviet pact of 1884 was
the most recent expression and
which was inspired mainly by con
siderations of military security
The treaty concluded by Stain
and De Gaulle indicates that Rus
STA, contrary to some belief, is de-
finitely interested in development:
in the west. And it suggests thai
France is veering away from Brit
ain toward Moscow. British inter,
vention against the peoples of Bel
GUM, Italy and Greece begins tx
show its disastrous inevitable re
suits. Mr.. Churchill said once tina
he did not intend "to preside ovel
the liquidation of the British En-
pire." But if he carries through
his reactionary policy in Europe
the moral liquidation of the British
Empire wills have begun. Til,
Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
e. |. JOE" UP AGAINST
A Joker"

The daily press informs US that
there is a Joker" in &c. I. Joe's''
Bill of Rights, as enacted by Con-
gress. Under that measure the re-
turning soldier is entitled to gov
eminent loans to buy a farm or a
home or for other purposes.
However, when &c. I. joe at
tempts to exercise that right, he
discovers that the price of farm
land has scared and that our
friends, the realtors, are ready to
hold him up if he attempts to buy
a home.
In other words, &c. 1. joe has
offered his life to safeguard the
land of his birth, but he finds he
can't occupy an inch of it unles;
he pays high tribute to the lane
owners and the real estate dealers
That's enough to make a Single
Taxer out of almost any "G.I. joe
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
COOPERATINES IN


C~ooperatives are Canada's school
for Socialists. With the growth of
the cooperative movement, the
basis of which is u~nassailable,
comes an understanding of the be-
nefits of social ownership and con-
troll, and of cooperative production
and distribution. Hand in hand
with cooperatives in Saskatchewan
there has marched the c. c. F.,
which is the national cooperative
unit, and which a be expected
to develop no more rapidly than
the theory of cooperation and its
practical application to the affairs
of the people of Canada.-Morris
c. Shumiatcher in the September
Canadian Forum.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
SOCIALIST PARTY
PLANS PROGRAM
ON JOBS FOR ALL

The National Executive Com
mittee of the Socialist Party, meet
ing in New York, December 16,
IT, and 10, made the following de
ciSionS:
/. 1t approved the recommends
tons of the Servicemen's Commit
tee calling for extensive work in
the field of veterans organizations,
2. Instructed the National Action
Committee to employ an educa-
tional director whose duties will
include the regular publication OF
pamphlets and leaflets and the con-
Quoting a non-partisan speakers
bureau.
8. Created a Planning Commits
sion to prepare for publication g
plan on What Socialism Will Dc
for America" with specific out
lines for a broad campaign or
Full employment and total demo.
cracy."
4. The establishment of a com.
mittee to assess support of variou:
kinds of third party action.
5. The creation of a permanent
publicity committee.
In addition, specific organiza
tional proposals recommended By
the National Secretary Eel adopt
ed.
Public statements opposing the
appointment of Paul R. Porter tt
the FEC, calling for the enactmen
or a permanent FEPC, and oppos
ing peace-time CONSUMPTION wer,
adopted and released.
i The next meeting of the NEG
will meet in the midwest.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
WHAT FRENCH
WORKERS WANT
(From the French Press

Franc-Tireur: This war carries
a revolution in its womb, even for
certain countries whichsdo not be-
lieve this vet r To make a polit-
ical, social and economic revolu-
tion-Which is not only demanded
by the, people, but is also a tech
nical necessity-We need revoiu-
tionists in the post of command
Combat: We want the c~oncilia-
ton Eof Justice with Liberty. We
call Justice the social state in
which the individual has all oppor-
tunities at the start, and where the
majority of the population is not
kept in an unworthy condition by
a minority of privileged. And we
call Liberty the political climate
in which the human personality is
respected in what it represents and
what it expresses We think
that Justice should rule on the
economic plane and Liberty on the
political plane. We want for France
a collectivist economy and liberal
politics. Without a collectivist eco
nomy which must take away the
privileges of money to restitute
them to labor, a politics of liberty
can only be deceit. But without
constitutional guarantees of polit-
ical liberties, a collectivist eco
nomy risks to absorb all initiative
and all individual expression.
Emanuel D'Astier: 1.-THE Steel
and Coal Trusts, the big banks, the
Insurance Companies, led by a
small number of industrial tycoons,
have played a sinister role in
French politics. This must now
come to an end. The trusts must
be beaten and swept away, but il
is furthermore necessary that the
employers understand that the
working class is not a subordinate
tool in their hands, but that it ha!
come of age"
Daniel Mayer, secretary of tn,
Socialist Party: "~Eeverything ha
to. be subordinate to the Nationa
Interest-even the Insurance Com
panies and the Big Banks
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
BUMPER BABY CROP
BLESSING TO AMERICA

Despite unsettled wartime con-
ditions, more babies are being born
in the United States and fewer Of
them are dying, the Children's
Bureau of Department of Labor
reported.
The birth rate of 1943 was de-
clared to be phenomenal" higher
than in any year since 1924, and
in numbers reached an alltime
high of over 5000, 900. Meanwhile,
the mortality rate was the lowest
on record, and IL per cent below
the figure for the last three years.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
GIANT PLANE FOR
ATLANTIC SERVICE

A mammoth transport plane,
weighing 90 tons and capable of
carrying 149 passengers, is being
constructed by Pan-American Air
ways for postwar transatlantic
transport.
According to information placed
before the Civil Aeronautics Board
the aircraft will have a range of
$500 miles and a cruising speed
of 288 miles an hour.
Pan-American officials said that
it expects to bring travel costs
down as low as 4 cents a mile.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27

Present indications are that all minor parties O. the November 7h
ballot in Michigan will lose their status a recognized political parties
in that State. The Michigan election laws provide that a political party,
in order to qualify for a place the ballot, must have received a
minimum vote equal to one per cent of the total vote cast for the sue
cessful candidate for the office of Secretary of State. Five minor
parties were on the November 7th ballot in Mchigan-the Socialist,
Socialist Labor, Michigan Commonwealth Federation, America First,
and Prohibition parties-and it appears that all five failed to receive
the statutory minimum required this year.
We hope that by the time another general election rolls around,
the law in Michigan-and similar laws in other States-wiH have been
revised % a to make it easier for all bona fie political parties to
qualify for their rightful place on the ballot If our is TRULY a demo-
cratic form of government, then let us be truly democratic in our treat
ment of minorities, however much we may disagree with their social
or economic theories, Or with their teachings in general.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
PAPERS WON'T PLAY UP
THESE STRIKE c
Loss of Time in OctODer Less
Than iOne-Tenth of One Per

Than fOne-Tenth of One Per
Cent ST.
You wouldn't know it from read
ing the scare headlines in the
newspapers, but time lost by
strikes has taken a nose-dive, the
Department of Labor revealed this
week.
During October, the last month
for which figures are available,
man-days lost from work STOP
pages amounted to 100000, or a
mere 9/100 of / per cent of time
put in by the nations workers.
That's a decline of 1872, 534 man
days below losses from strikes for
the corresponding month a year
ago, the department said.
incidentally, a major share OF
the strike toll for the month was
caused by the Mechanics Educa.
tional Society of America, an sin
dependent" organization in ne
way connected with the regular
labor movement.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27

President Wilson tried to do
away with secret diplomacy. At
Paris he refused to recognize
secret treaties entered into by AL
lied powes, thereby making him
self unpopular with the Allied
statesmen. But in this respect the
Americans were solidly behind
Wilson.
Present-day Americans might
find it something of a shock to re-
alize that F. DR., the first Presi-
dent with a claim to be considered
Wilson's successor, is himself a
practicer Of secret diplomacy at its
worst.
The American people are all too
inadequately informed about that
branch of their government which
decides matters of peace and war.
Over the Quebec meeting be-
tween the President and Mr.. Chur-
chill, deep secrecy.
Over Dumbarton Oaks, dark
less broken only by flashes Of
phony lightning.
Over in London, the European
Advisory Council still wrestles
with what amount to peace terms
for Germans. These terms will af-
feet you and me, our happiness,
our lives, intimately and terrify-
ingly. What do we know about
them? Nothing.
MajesticaIly Draped in a Cloak
Most of this hush-hush stuff
Grapes itself majestically behind
the cloak of military necessity"
The truth would seem to be that
military necessity" is being Great
ed arbitrarily as an excuse for
diplomatic secrecy. Proof? Plenty.
The British government in Paris
plans to do business with the
French in Paris through a simple
civilian ambassador, Alfred Duff
Cooper. President Roosevelt, on
the other hand, sends to Paris a
military mission under Maj. Gen.
John T. Lewis. Probable pretext:
The u. S. has given no diplomatic
recognition to the French provi-
sional government. Probabl e
reason: Greater excuse for secrecy.
Stain, who has some experience
of war, has no objection to publish
ing the terms of the Russo-Roman-
ian armistice. Yet, the Clark-Dar-
Ian agreement between the Ameri-
cans and the French in North AT
RIGA still are unpublished.
Citizens Have Right to Resent it
Mexico City may be the proper
place from which the American
people should learn that their (?)
State Department recently reject
ed a proposal by Spanish Tyrant
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
JUST TOO MUCH

This happened in London. In the
early hours Of the morning, the
duchess strobe haughtiiy across
the pavement from the hotel where
a charity dance had been held, and
was getting into her car when a
beggar' accosted her.
Spare a copper, lady, for char
ity? Pm starving"
The duchess turned to him
sharply. What ingratitudei" she
exclaimed. Don't you know I've
been dancing for you all night"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
TOLL OF RAIL WORKERS
CONTINUES TO RISE

The number of railroad workers
killed or manned in the line of
duty is continuing to rise. A re-
port issued by the /. c. C. disclos.
ed the appalling figures. The fat
alities in the first nine months of
this year were 1856, eight more
than in the same period of last
year, and the number injured in
creased nearly 1000 to 35,0O3.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
l3,OOO,O 900 WORKERS
ARE TRAINED
FOR WAR JOBS

Over 5000, 900 workers have
received special training for war
production in the four-year period
since the defense program began,
the Office of War Information re-
ported. Most of them were trained
under special "quickie" programs
set up by wal agencies, in cooper
alton with industry, labor and Vo'
cational institutions.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
CRIPPLED WORKERS ARE
FITTED FOR PAYING
JOBS

Over $4,000 crippled workers
heretofore unable to work, were
rehabilitated under Federal-staIe
vocational training programs dur
ing the II months ending June 5O'
1914, and ri now holding JopS
paying an average of $50 a week
the Federal Security Agency re-
vealed. That's the greatest nun1oel
of handicapped workers placed Oh
jobs in any year SO far, the agency
said
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27
Uusually That WAY

Research has shown there's
room enough in a woman's hand
bag for a boilermaker's kit, COM
plete, and bus fare. The bus fare
will be found at the bottom.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27

Festung Europa: Danish under
ground publishers have printed
more than a million copies of such
books as WILKES Zone World"
RauscHning's Men Around Hit
ler," and Stenbeck's ''The Moon Is
Down." German officials sometimes
find copies on their desks.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27

Television is headed for a big
future, w. R. G. Baker, General
Electric vice-president predicted.
He forecast 100 television stations
in active operation within five
years after the war and 500 within
10 years.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-12-27

A foe to God was never a true
friend to man.-Young.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

neal services for IIenton Kelly
were held at Morning Star Bap-
list Church with Rev. r, S. Jones
officiating and ealogy delivered
b. Rev. II. G, Martin, A host Of
relatives and friends paid last re-
speet to this young man Mes
danes Georgia Kelly and Norman
Abner of Chicago, mother and
sister Of the deceased, Mesdames
Beulah Wess and Berdia Wash
ington, aunt and cousin of Gin
cinnati, Mrs. Cleadie Flanagan
and Miss Ella Ramsey of Atlanta,
sister and cousin attended the fu,
neral of Mr.. Kelly, with Hubble
Bros. in charge Ed Jones
is reported i'll &. Sgt. Henry
Walker writes from somewhere in
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
DIRECTOR RETURNS

A. II. Pope, USO director, re-
turned from a two weeks vaca-
ton where he visited points In
the South and East.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
Card Of Ths nks

l take this method of express
ing my sincere appreciation to
patrons and friends who aided
me during the serious illness OF
my daughter. Elizabeth Hayman
Williams.
The cards and flowers you sent
served as sunbeams in her sick
room and frightened her conval-
escent period.
We are especially grateful to
the Reverend Emmanuel c. Dyer
for his prayerful services.
Signed.
Mrs. Leola Fl. Williams,
1900 Cross St.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

ed on playing chess as hobby.
Mr.. Sutton discussed cake max
ing as a hobby. Crafts were the
topic for Thursday evening, Oe-
tober 5 at $3.50 o'clock.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
around dunbar
with Sammie Mac Johnson
SEPTEMBER ACTIVITIES

The Dunbar Girls Council
served as hostess for a very pretty
party in honor of the new 7B girls
rs u tribute of welcome. Tile
welcome address to the new stu
dents Eas5 extended by Miss Ern-
estine Griee, prior to introduction
IF Girls Council officers. Billy
Jean Duncan gave the response
for the TBS, Mrs, M. 7, john
son led the 7B groups in sing
ing two popular songs,
Music and dancing were en-
ioyed. The Council assisted by
Mrs. Bernice King and the Home
Ee girls served a dainty repaat
of open-faced sandwiches. cookies
and drinks, The records were
furnished by Miss Doris McFar-
land.
The beautiful lace cloth, table
appointments and flowers added
color to the occasion. The group
joined in the singing of God
Bless America" as the closing
feature and left eheerfully asking
for another social soon.
Miss Ernestine Grice Is Council
president; Miss Erma Glasco,
chairman of program committee,
and Miss Myrtle Hines serves as
reporter. The group is sponsored
by Mrs. T s. Gravelly, dean of
girls.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

Mrs. A. w. Brown Of Chicago
has returned after visiting her
daughter, Mrs. W. B. Black and
family Miss Villa Black re-
turned to resume studies at Chi
cago u following short visit
with her parents, DIR. and Mrs. w.
b. Black Mrs. A. T. Goodlow,
Nell Dewalt and iona Oates were
prize winners in a contest spon-
sored by Emory Chapel in a con-
ference drive, with Rev. Douglass
Steele pastor.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
NEWPORT
Gladys ID. Mays

David Thomas of Kansas City,
Kansas spent a week here with
his sister, Mrs. Virginia Hobbs
Newport Hi School has
launched a drive for construction
of a gymnasium, with pledges al
ready being sent in by many
patrons The school sponsor
ed cotton picking and a carni-
val with Mrs. C, l.. Branch as
chairman :. Rev. V. Gordon was
installed as pastor of Shiloh Bap.
list Church on Sunday evening
at First Baptist Church Flu
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
The PTA installed

France The PrA installed
new officers at the school .
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G.. Hurd visited
in Cotton Plant and were ae-
e0mpanied home by his mother,
Mrs. Ellen Hurd who spent the
summer there Mesdames A. j.
Oates and Gladys Mays were CO.
hostesses at a party at the Oats
residence on Vine street honoring
Pfc. Oates, prior to his return to
Camp Stewart Georgia Mrs,
Nellie Hodge spent a day in Beede'
vile worshipping with Rev. James
I. Branch and congregation i,
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

American Society OF Social Hy-
giene was speaker of the evening.
DR.. w. H. Martin. Dunbar High
School principal was elected
chairman and Miss N. Coggs, sec
rotary.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06
u S O
ORIENTATION COURSE

ORDINATION COURSE
On Thursday evening a group
of recreationai leaders and friends
met In the USO lounge to attend
the "Recreational Leaders Orien-
tation Course" High points of
the evening We're prosecution OF
hobbies. Bernard Childress talk
ed and presented his hobby in
woodwork. Father Walker talk
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

Coffee and doughnuts were
served to a large number OF SER
vice men Sunday morning by
Miss S. Brooks and Mrs. Ruth
Mccoy.
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

Friday, September 20, a mum
her of citizens met at the USO
to form an organization to spon-
sor an educational program
against venereal diseases. c. O.
Rogers, representative of the
Arkansas State press., 1944-10-06

The Cookie Jar at the USO was
filled by the Army Mothers Club
over the weekend.