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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
NATIONS HEALTH
A DISGRACE

DiSgraceful health conditions in
this country are exposed by a sub
committee of the Senate Commit
tee of Education and Labor in a
report to Congress. Signed by Sen.
Claude Pepper, Ebert D. Thomas
and Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., the
document summarizes what the
committee discovered in a study
conducted last year.
The report declares that, be-
cause of defects, injuries and ill
nesSeS which could have been pre-
vented had medical care been
available to all the people, the ma
ton has suffered heavy losses in
manpower, both for the armed
services and for industry.
More than $500, 600 young men
sin the prime of life were found
to be absolutely unfit for military
service, and more than 1000, 900
have been discharged from service
because of defects other than
these sustained in battle, the re-
port says.
Another 100000 men now in
uniform were rendered fit for
service only through medical and
dental care given after they were
lnducted.
In all, the committee estimates,
at least 40 per cent of men of mill
tary age are handicapped by pre-
ventable defects, or more than
twice the number Of men we now
have overseas.
In 1943, the committee says, i'll
ness caused a loss of more than
100000, 900 m~an-days of labor =
forty-seven times the amount OF
time lost through strikes and lock
outs of all kinds in that year.
The committee suggests that
health insurance is n way-per-
haps the only effective Way-o1
uSdIIIlS Will TIE lledItH
Full employment and adequate
social security r Indispensable to
a truly effective health program
the report says. "We should begin
planning now for the reconversior
period. We have seen what neglect
of opportunities for health anc
physical fitness has cost u:
during the war."-American Fed.
erationist.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
ONE POUND
OF COAL

Just one pound of coal, it's true,
but, as the Norfolk and Western
Railway so ably points out, lock-
what it will do:
1t will produce enough energy
to produce steel to make one B.
0o0-pound aerial bomb, or nine
3-inch trench mortars, or nine 20
nm. aircraft cannon, or sixteen
5-inch shells, or twenty 1000
pound aerial bombs, or twenty
one 4-inch shells, or 833 hand
grenades.
Coal miner, remember, the next
time you load your car, what chat
coal can produces.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
WHO ARE "soCIAL FAsClSTs" NOW?

Our memory harked back a number of years when we learned
last week that the Daily Worker" organ of American Communism,
gave it's editorial blessing to the Roosevelt proposal for a labor draft
for private profit.
These re the same people, we recalled, who once stigmatized us
Socialists as yellow and called u social fascits' f,
Well, times do change-but not sc often as do the Communists.
Possibly the same typewriter which first pounded out the slogan,
The Yanks Are Not Coming, remember, when Hitler and Stain
were working together under a sort of economic aid agreement?-was
used to write the words, National Service for Victory" which appear
ed at the top of the Communist crafty surrender of a freedom of which
Americas Stain stooger always had sneered.
Unfortunately, few Americans understand why it is that the Com
mics are now 81 eager to see American Labor subjected to the rule
of a supper state.
But we Socialists understand:
Some day-very soon now-the props that are being placed under
the capitalist economy will collapse. That will be the catastrophe that
will give the Commies their chance. Perhaps then they will inherit the
absolute power that is now being established over the working class.
That will be harvest time for the apostles of dictatorship-they
hope-Readng Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
Shed CT Teur for Peter

Young King Peter of Yugoslavia is almost admirable, in a way.
Even if he did what Winston Churchill told him to do, he'd be an ex-
tremely poor bet for holding his throne. Practically everybody seems
to know that except Peter. But his faith is monumental. He may be the
last man alive this side of Tokyo who really believes in the divine
right of kings
Royalty he defies the advice of Mr.. Churchill, chief remaining
prop of Balkan royalty. Royalty, without consulting his British pro-
tectors, he announced at his London court two weeks ago that he
couldn't accept the regency arrangement reached by his premier, Ivan
Subasitch and Marshal Tito, withe the blessings of Moscow and London,
Now-despite Mfr. Churchills warning of Jan. 10 that events can't wait
for Peter - the 21.yearold monarch regauy dismissed his cabinet
Subasitch and all. His "chancelery' explains that the king has "1ost
confidence in DR.. Subasitch," so collaboration in any serious matter
is out of the question"
AS we said, Peter was in any event almost certainly heading for
a knockout. BIT it's sort of gruesome, the way he and his little royal
court lead with the chn-The Chicago Sun. '
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
NOT ALL FARMERS
ARE PROSPEROUS
Cash Income of Agriculture
Largest in History, But 88
Per Cent of Total Goes to
Halt of Operators

The Federal Reserve Board took
a year-end look at agriculture and
came up with these interesting
conclusions:
AS a whole, the industry is more
prosperous than. in any other pc
riod in history. Higher prices and
increased production have raised
cash income $50 per cent above
pre-war levels.
The top 40 per cent Of farm
families, had cash incomes rang
ing from $1,000 to $3.50 and
over. Fifty per cent of the farmers
received 88 per cent of the total
income. Ten per cent had incomes
of less than $3.50 and AZ per cent
had incomes under S700,
These figures, the board said,
make it obvious that rural power
ty has not been eliminated" 1t
added that many loW~income farm
families are worse off than before
the war.
The more fortunate farmers
happy position is due mainly to
the fact that the prices they re-
ceived for their product increased
90 per cent since 1899, while the
prices paid for the things they
bought increased only 35 per cent.
The figures will probably be chal-
lenged by farmers, but they are
vouched for by Reserve Board
experts"
During the var production has
increased about a third, notwith-
standing a shortage of labor. This
was accomplished by a very sharp
increase in the use of machinery.
After the war the needs of the
nation, according to the board can
be supplied with a few million
fewer workers than wer employ
ed before the war.
The value of farm land has
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
NATIONS DRINK BILL
is RECORD-BREAKER

Americans last year spent a re-
cord-breaking seven billion dol
lars for alcoholic beverages, about
a billion more than in 1943. That
figures out at the rate of about
S54 for every man, woman and
child in the country.
This doesn't mean that drinking
is on the increase. In fact, con
sumption of whisky was 25,000,-
600 gallons less than in 1912. The
greater outlay was due to higher
taxes and prices.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
MAY BE NEEDED

Columbus, O.--The Bureau Of
Unemployment Compens ation
closed the year 1914 with a $422,-
627, 600 balance and its reserve
fund available for the payment Of
unemployment compensation ben
efitS.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

jumped "A per cent, and the board
says this is a grave threat to con-
tinued prosperity after the war,
when the "boom~and-bust' expert
ence of the last war is likely to
be repeated.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

U. S. Coal production in 1914
was more than all the rest of the
world put together.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

There are depths in man that
go to the lowest hell and heights
that reach the highest heaven
Carlyle.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

Grace is to the body what good
sense is to the mind.-Rochefou-
cau1d.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
A DEFINITION

An optimist is a man who eN-
poets a home atmosphere in a no.
tel and hotel service at home.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

Ostentation is the signal flag of
1ypocrisy.-E. H. Chaplin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-27

Our boys have fought long way on The road To okvo
but there still long, hard road to be Travelled! da
bocay clever and ruthless enemy be wiped out every
foot of the way More B29s tanks hafracks and Teens
more rockets mortars guns bullets must be bouoht
and sent thousands Of miles to our boys to finish the lob
YOUR bond purchases will SPEED TOTAL VICTORY.
and bring our boys home more quickly. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-27
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The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
PETERSBURG MAY GET FEDERAL BUILDING

The need for a Federal building at Petersburg has been recognized by the Public Buildings Admins tration, according to information given Delegate Bartlett, and the proposed building will be added to the list of eligible projects re- gently submitted to Congress.
 The project will be included in legislation now pending before Congress which authorizes a total appropriation of $193,000,0O0 for Federal building projects outside the District of Columbia. The bills purpose is to grant author ity to the Public Buildings Admin istration to purchase sites, prepare working drawings and specified tions and construct those build ing projects most essential to eff ficient operation of the Federal Government.
 Two other Alaska projects are included in the measure totalling $1 ,150,000, one calling for remod- cling and extending the Federal Building at Juneau in the amount of $1, ,00O, ,OO0, and the other listing the expenditure of $150,0OO for a postoffice site and building at Ko- diak.
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
JONES ACT WAIVER CONTINUED

Upon representations made by Governor Gruening and Delegate Bartlett to the War Shipping Ad- ministration and the Treasury De- partment, travel will continue to be allowed on Canadian vessels between points in Alaska until December 31, 1945.
 Because of the shortage of American ship facilities, the Jones Act was waived during the war and with extensions of the waiv- CTS passengers were allowed this means of transportation in the Territory through October 3l of this year. The two months exten- sion to December 31 is based upon the fact that traffic at the present time in Alaska is too heavy for the American operators to handle.
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
THE NOME MUG GET

They got the Germans and the heel of Naziism. Soviet Russia is using a diplomatic 'push-button" now to destroy
 Her Communism is undermining old way of do- ing things, which was the best way.
 Our science must be free and not state-conroled, like Soviet science"
 The Langmuirs the Edisons, the Fultons, the Wright brothers and the Morses came up the American way Let us stay on that road!
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
KEEP SCIENCE FREE
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Seattle Post-Intelgencer)
 In his prepared remarks before Congressional hear ing on proposed bills to grant aid to Scence Dr irving Langmur associate director of the research laoorato res of the General Electric Company told us that us sa will have enough atomic bombs to destroy every man. woman and child in this country-maybe within 20 years sO.
 That warning (note that Professor Langmulr did not say Germany Japan, England, France or Chlna), com ing from cold scientific brain, ought to jolt our poll ticians who are coddling the Sovets
 Professor Langmuir said of the Kilgore bill that It aims at an essentially political control of science
 That indeed is the object of the Kgore bill and of many other bills now before Congress.
 Their purpose is not patriotic or American Tn lntent but they are introduced build up state Soclalstlc political machine.
 Professor Lang1nuir told the Congressmen who lis tened to him ntently that science had best remain in the hands of the individual On this subject he said:
 '"The main contribution that government can make through the proposed foundations to lay better fOun daons of pure science which be freely used by all Such results best be had in universities There two for this First the universities provide the ideal environment stimulate science and second the spirit thus fOstered in the university gives an inspiration the students which essential for the further growth of both universities and industry.
 In other words in nonscentific language, Professor Langmuir says to the government, hands ott!
 He warns against laws that would tend to destroy pioneering system of private incentive in these words
 nave freedom of thought free enterprise patents etc., sys tenn of incentives effective than that existing in any other naon but the obvious necessity of govern control of features of capitalist system has frequently led to attacks the capitalist system as whole attacks its good well its bad fea tures.''
 Then the professor gives list of evils that are hamstringng private enterpries, such as taxaton on which subject he has this to say:
 Individual income taxes, and especially the huge rates have been based the socaed democrat ic principle that taxes should be paid in accord with the ability to pay. much more reasonable principle for taxation would be that taxes would be distributed cording to the best public interest With such princ pie the importance of retaining incentives would be recognized"
 When the politicians and left-wing demagogues that control the country today give tax legislation in the best public interest then canvas-back ducks and bot tied champagne will fall from the heavens.
 Anohter growing evil that the professor warns against is the proposed 3O-hour week. He says:
 '"The pioneering spirit in the United States shows signs of dying out; talk about 3O-hOur week. the right to jOb We attach too much importance to curty and too little to opportunity.
 "In 1888 and 1889 spent some time in France. There too labOr wanted soft iObS without much work hui with
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02

(Oclence DlSeSL)
 Wounded veterans assured that in most instances their earning capacity need not be impaired by serious disability.
 Nor need they lose out socially, with the girl back home.
 These assurances, contained in the pamphlet Straight Talk For Disabled Veterans, published by the Public Affairs Committee tempered by the admission that the disabled face hard gruelling task and that success will only come to those who work for it.
 "The fellow who would have made good with all of his body intact make good despite the most body losses, writes Edna Yos who prepared the pam phlet in collaboration with Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth.
 The authors describe number of actual instances of tens of thousands that could be cited prove that bearing all kinds of physical losses achieve economic independence and build for themselves lives that satisfying and happy anyones. They point out that company alone employs nearly 12 900 dis abled regular jobs They tell of cases in which
 earned after being disabled than before their injury.
 Disabled men are warned, however that success does not without great effort. They urged to coop crate with their physicians and in activities de- signed to the effects of their injuries, and to get the best training possible for their future jobs
 The majority of the disabled urged to prepare for normal work at normal wage, making the choice exactly they would have if they had not been injured
 Do not approach the problem of vocational choice, the pamphlet says, "by asking What the jobs armless do?' but by saying, with suchandsuch abilities and assets to be used in suitable work After you have chosen wisely and then train ed wisely for specific kind of work, you have at least much to offer employer needing that kind of work done as anyone else has,"
 A Congressman says must live on barkS and ber- ries. Are we men or moose?-Milwaukee Journal
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
ARCTIC WEATHER
 REPORTING STATIONS

The Senate has reported favor ably on Senator Brewster's bill to establish meteorological observa- ton stations in the Arctic region of the Western Hemisphere.
 The legislation authorizes the Chief of the Weather Bureau to establish the stations for the pur- pose of improving the weather forecasting service within the United States and on the interna- tional air transport routes from the United States.
 ALASKA HIGHWAY
 The Canadian army and the Royal Canadian Air Force will as- sume responsibility and mainten- ance of the Canadian section of Alaska Highway and airdromes in 1946, according to press dispatches from Ottawa, Canada
 Acting External Affairs Minis ter Louis St. Laurent has an nounced the United States will withdraw from the Canadian sec ton of the highway on April 1, 1946, and from the airfields along the northwest staging route on June 1, 1946.
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02
WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL

Secretary 10 E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. Delegate 10 Congress from Alaska
The Nome nugget., 1945-11-02

A Congressman says must live on barks and ber- ries. Are we men or moose?-Milwaukee Journal.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

nexed thel Carpatho- Ukraine What renamed or Czechoslovakia-Slov announced its ndepend- ence under German protection" Hitler also an- nexed Memel from Lithuania. MussoEni grabbed Albania.
 Next Hitler turned to Poland. His propaganda minister, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, began press campaign like those which preceded the 1nvaslons of Austria and Czechoslovakia
 But Britain and France had been pushed as far as they could go This time they showed no intention of retreating Instead, they attempted to woo Joseph Staln leader of powerful Russia into joining united front against Germany.
 Der Fuehrer sent his foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop to the once-hated Kremhn ana that willy diplomat emerged with document that shocked the world-a non aggression treaty with the Soves that assured the Nazs they could gobble Poland at startlingly little cost in the east.
 Now the war of nerves reached full intensity Germany was mobilized for war, but ragged when Poland called up her troops. Border clashes grew in number and size The Nazis moved 100000 sol cers into Sovakia, massing at four passes leading into Poland
 Britain began sandbaggng buildings and pre- pared to move London children to the safer coun- trysde Her maneuvering fleet steamed to bottle up the Baltic France called up 100000 men and put her factories and railroads wartime footing Gas masks were distributed in Vatican City. Experts camouf1aged factories in remote Bombay, India Ships carrying Americans to safety swarmed over the Atlantic and the U S. Army and Navy began to build up stockpiles of critically needed war materle
 Hitler demanded that Warsaw send representa- tive to heal the Nazis' price for peace On August 31 he disclosed that he was after all once-GerTnan terrtory-the free city of Danzig, Posen and Upper Silesia and the Polish corridor leading to the Baltic Sea
 Early the next morning he donned his gray uni form which he vowed he would not take off until victory death That night the lights went out all over Europe
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
SCANDINAVIA FEELS THE BOOT

MYTH British, French and American la w turning out more and more munitions, r, berlain announced in April, 1940, that der had missed the bus
 On April 8 the British virtually sealed the ern approaches to Germany by mining the off Norway through which German shlp sneaked home with Narvik's precious iron -',' ol
 On the very same night Hitler's troops s~ into Denmark and Norway. u
 The Danes had seen what happened 10 !ne :u Their King Christian urged them to submit !, cost of one soldier the Nazis rolled up the 2 peninsula, across the Skaggerak from Norwai
 The move into Norway was made amid Fl confusion Troops hidden in the holds of shp5 p4 nered ashore to seize vital coastal pom Narvik, Bergen, stravanger, and Trononen] oae vilian travellers" put on army uniforms or sleT Norwegians Lo the battle was already over orders ord to surrender were passed on to ,uhS' aS' ing Norwegian officers. Nazis appeared suou, railroad i terminals and airports German daoS, ~1 disgorged soldiers along the southern '0"'
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
HITLER SEEMED UNBEATABLE AS THE NAZI BLITZ ROLLED

Deutschland roamed the North Atlantic bla Allied armed merchantmen. In December British cruisers met up with the Admiral Graf another 1O,O0O-ton pocket ship, and so badly aged her that she was scuttled by her ere Montevideo, Uruguay.
 In America, President Roosevelt proclaim limited national emergency and factories were ing additional workers to handle the flow of orders piling up from abroad.
 Britain and France spent quiet winter, sl comfortable in it's way. They merely had to and build more strength and plan new wa. killing Germans when they came
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
POLAND IS BLITzED

THE Nazs poured into Poland from all direc- 'SI tions east from Pomerania south and west from Eas, Prussla, north from occupied Slovakla Under oruers to counter attack and pursue mo- torcycle lnfantrymen, heavy tank forces and other motorized troops sped along sun-hardened roads against feeble opposition Hewlng Stuka dive bombers speedy Messerschmlu fighters and mon- strous heavy bomDers roared over Warsaw, Krakow and other key ches slashrng airields and plane oepots destroying railroads, ripping fixed detenses
 Thls was blitzkneg-hghning war At the end ot the first day Poles digging for the remains of women and children the wreckage of homes blasted from the sky The Nazls were 20 miles ln- slde Poland and slll moving fast. Albert Foerster .Danzg's No. l Naz and chef ot state of the free city announced the reglon was incorporated into the Reich.
 tum to Hitler to get out of Poland Hitler never formally replied. On September B. Britain ana France declared wal on Germany-an old-tashoned touch in period accustomed to seeing nations strike without warning Australs and New Zealand followed In the United States President Roosevelt called on Americans for neutrality in act but doubt co they could be neutral in thought
 Military experts estimated the Germans had 000 men, under the commano ot General wal ter von Brauchltsch ready to throw against the Poles Polands Marsha Smlgly-Rydz had about 5OOO00 and could hn time produce million more But Field Marshal Hermann Goering's Naz alT force had about 1000 front-hne planes agalnst Po- lands patry second rate 500. The Germans had an overwhelming might In mobile armor Poland had little strength that moved wheels Her cavalry was pitted against something new-com- pleteIy armored divisions.
 By the time the two big western powers were Tn the war Hitler's legions were rolling smoothly across the Polish plains. They already had annihi- lated Smgly- Rydz's air force The Polish corridor was practically cut Railroad lines were battered almost beyond recognition The Wehrmacht was moving close to Krakow, on the southern road to Warsaw Jablunka Pass, vital route from Slovakia into Poland, had been forced.
 The Poles fought bravely bul proved only that horses were no match for tanks and cavalry lances no defense against dive bombers.
 On September l6 the Russians announced they