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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-12
Words of Wisdom

Nature has made occupation a
a necessity to us; society makes
it a duty; habit may make 1t a
pleasure.-Capella.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-12

Hints on Etiquette
The bride may leave the guests
at the reception to change to
travelling suit as soon as she
pleases after refreshments have
been served.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-12
Your Health
Control Of Cancer
Next Business For
Health Authorities
BY LOGAN CLENDENlNG N. D

THE campaign for the control
Of cancer is undoubtedly the next
important business Of the health
authorities of the world. We
have means TO control it in as
good a proportion Of cases as, for
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
NOT THE RIGHT WAY

President R. ]. Thomas and Vice President Walter Reuther, of the
United Auto Workers Union, have recently made some interesting
statements.
These gentlemen say that it is possible for the automobile industry
o grant tn 800 wage increase the union is asking and lower the
price OF automobiles AND at the same time make more profits
We haven't examined the work sheets upon which those very ener-
Retc unlonlsts figured themselves to the above conclusion. But that's
all right; we're not asking for proof.
What w e are asking is why workers should stop at halfway de-
mandS when they plan a n about campaign against the owners of
industry. Why leave any profits at all?
Frankly, We don't like an arrangement that makes the workers of
one industry the partners of owners of the same industry in the bust
ness OF oeeo1ng n public. Seriously, we submit that the benefits OF
improved machinery and methods should be shared by EVERYBODY,
In othe words what we want is a system Of production for use and
no. for either wages or profits.
we want to put n md to the wages and profits system.
Mechancal progress never makes it advance along a straight line.
but ne line should be Strengthened out as quickly a possible. What we
lea IS Ina II 1t is possible to make a 81 900 automobile for $500,
then the $500 saved should not be divided between automobile workers
public by offering the auto at a lower price.
we var auto workers to have the best possible working condi-
ions and decent living standards. But we don't want auto workers.
or ne worker OF any other group-to be the only people who have
those oeSdngS-or even to become the "aristocrasts' of the working
class.
we think OF industry as a big overall activity embracing all
workers OF whatever craft, trade and employment. We think they
It's because we want the American people to work together and
ENJOY together that We are urging that all basic industries be socialized
ana owned together-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
PRESIDENT TRUMAN's Y POINTS

Preslden Truman had a magnificent chance Of Navy Day to re-
assert this nations leadership in world affairs. Less than a mile from
where he stood a great battle fleet lay at anchor in the Hudson River.
naval might and the courage and skill that SO largely contributed to
victory. And just because w e are strong and because e have o inn
mediate cause to fear al enemy it hardly seemed necessary to shake our
armed might in the worlds face. The President was in a position, in
fact, to declare that the national security of any nation in the future
can rest only in a strong international organization. Instead, he re-
peated with vehement protestauons the anachronstic folklore of ma
tonal security SO beloved by the brass hats, who appear to have slept
through the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mr.. Humans e
statement Of American foreign policy wa noble but strangely uncon-
vincing. He presented the United States a S a cross between Theodore
Roosevelt and ST. Francis of Assist. Throughout the twelvepont de-
claration al a tone of selfrighteousness, a SNUG superiority to the
lesser breeds without the law" From this attitude it is but a short
step back to isolationism-a short step forward to Imperialism. Almost
organization. But in view of the whole tenor of the speech, it seems
hardp likely that Englishmen, Russians, Greeks, Hungarians, Indo-
nesians-or even Americans-Wi1 interpret Poin IL IS a realistic
commitment to a world organization that will place limits IN the SOW
ereign rights of aggression and guarantee the freedom and security
of all peoples-including the American people-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14

The labor delegates of SIS countries that compose the world
labor organization, the World Federation of Trade Unions, have all
gone home. The world is now waiting to SEE what the new labor organl-
zation will do. What's next? is the big question.
The answer is to be found in the decisions of the Conference. The
unity. The organization "a formed to give workers n strong unified
voice in the settlement of the affairs of the world.
The leaders O, the WITH known that it has potentially the most
powerful voice in worlds affairs, but that the voice will not b heard
in its demand for world peace, democratic reconstruction and economic
security if it is broken up into many little voices calling for different
things.
A certain fact to come out of the conference is that labor is deter
mined to have its say when the peace is settled. It will not, as after the
last war, support a peace treaty that contains a few meaningless words
enough of everything.
1t will demand that the detectives of the people be translated into
actual policies. Labor is frankly not confident that that will be done
unless it can take part in every step and phose of the peacenaking.
That is why it will demand advisory representation in the General
Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and all other peace bodies
of the United Nations.
What can labor do in the United Nations organization? The ans
wr is that it can force all the things governments are reluctant to do
and expose the failure to carry out policies beneficial to the people.
1t can demand of governments that they can cease to recognize the
fascist regime of Franco.
The WFTU a demand trade policies and labor conditions that
would provide full employment, higher wages and shorter hours for
all workers.
This would hold good for colonial workers too, for whom labor
wants to see complete independence established and aid extended in
The Advance.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
WHY THEY FIGHT
THE 65CENT MINIMUM

A Geographic roundup of the
employment situation in 1874 prin-
cipal cities made by the War Man
power Commission showed that a
big majority of the jobs now offer
ed to displaced war workers pay
sWeatshop wages.
In city after city, the overwhelm-
ing majority of the job vacancies
carried rates of less than rs cents
an hour and in many communities,
over half paid less than so cents,
the report disclosed. That means
$40 to $50 a week = below the
standard considered necessary by
the Department of Labor for bare
subsistence"
VINO officials conceded that.
with living costs what they are
now, it is understandable why
workers would take such sweatshop
wages only as a last resort.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
LABOR'S ENEMY:
ANTI-SEMITISM

Both AFL and CLIO are on record
against racial and religiuos hatred.
Scratch an anti-Semite," said the
resolution passed by the CLIO at its
seventh convention in Chicago,
and you find a labor batter" The
AL, in its 58th convention in New
Orleans at the same time, unanim-
ously passed a resolution which
declared:
Racla and religious discord
play into the hands of the enemies
OF organized labor who are trying
TO bring about the repeal or emas-
culatlon of the liberal social legis-
latlon added to the statute books
an dtear down the American STAN
dard of living -. The same labor
oaltlng forces will find group pre-
JUDGE directed against Catholics.
Negroes, Jews and other minorities
an even more effective weapon to
use -. to smash the unions in the
postwar period."-From apamphlet
puollsheo by Anti-Defamation
League.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
Politicians Are Charged
With Picking Bones
Of BANKRUPT

What is likely to happen when a
corporation gets into financial diff
ficulties is emphasized by litiga-
ton started in a Federal court at
Washington.
The National Benefit Life Insur-
ance Company, whose PA, 900
policy-holders are mostly Negroes,
went into reccivership IA years
ago. At that time it had assets of
$3,768,472.
Today, according to a complaint
filed by stockholders demanding an
accounting, assets have shrunken
to $236,OOO.
Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, it was charged, have gone into
the pockets of receivers and their
lawyers, all of whom are Democ-
ratio politicians, some quite promi-
nent. The complaint asserts that
courts handling the receivership
leaned over backward to make it
possible for the receivers and law
yers to pick the bones of the bank
rupt.
In 1887, the complaint pointed
out, the Court of Appeals declared
the record is replete with charges
of misconduct against the receiv-
ers" and warned that their report
should be 'scrutinized with great
care" During the following seven
years, however, this decree was a
deadletter, the complaint said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
Tax the Uneurned Value Out of Land

On January Is, It'll, Johann Reese, a Dutch farmer, bought all the
land between 46h and 50th Streets, Broadway, and the Hudson River,
in what is now New York City. For that area of several square miles
he paid only $4,000.
of that land, a 25IOot-Wide lot OF 9Th Avenue for $4,000, or ten times
the amount Reese paid for the entire area ia years ago.
That dramatically illustrates an economic problem which receives
100 little attention.
Reese and his descendants simply sat tight" while New York City
grew and its people toled, raising the value O the Reese land from
$4,000 to many millions of dollars. For generations the Reese descend
from their land.
Meanwhile, other New York City landlords, such as the Aston fam
lily, took similar toll running into billions of unearned dollars. In other
cities throughout this country-and the world, for that matter-the
same sort of thing went n and still does
AS a result, every American who does any useful work contributes
every year to the unearned income of e who do nothing but collect
ground rents" or who hold onto land until they can sell it at a higher
price than they paid for it.
Thus billions of dollars are added every year to the cost of living;
sIum clearance and housing projects ar INSTRUCTED by the high cost
Of land.
The remedy is to tax the unearned value out of land. Henry George
pointed that out long ago. His proposal has been almost forgotten, but
the problem still remans-Labor, Washington, D. C.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
By BERTON BRALEY

They're the utterly foolish dream
ers,"
Who dream of a better day;
They're not the plotters and
schemers
Who work for glory and pay.
But with confidence undiminished
They dream of a world made
new,
And after their days arc finished
The wonderful dream comes
true!
They're not fighters who fight I'M
daunted
For the utterly hopeless cause,
Ridiculed, jeered and tainted,
With never a lull or pause;
But after they've fought and per
ished,
And after their work is done,
The cause they have loved and
cherished
Is lifted to fame-and won!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
COST OF THE WAR
IN DOLLARS

This war cost the world $1,033,-
281, 900, 000-more than a trillion
dollars.
A trillion is too big a figure for
the imagination to grasp, but its
size is suggested by the following
calculation:
Before the war, wages and sala-
ries in the United States in any
one year never totaled more than
$50, 900, 000, 900. At that rate, it
would take every dollar earned by
American wage and salary work
ers for 20 years to pay the cost of
the war.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Nomenclature: A new bridge will
soon cross the Mississippi River at
Memphis, Tennessee, and the citi-
zenS r undecided what to call it.
Among the names that have been
proposed are Franklin D. Roose-
welt, Ed Crump, and Westbrook
Pegler +. War Departments re-
cords show that more men named
Cohen enlisted in New York City
than those of any other name :.
A prize boar owned by Emmert
Brothers, Mason City, Ia, is named
One World -. And the blue ribbon
for male Duroc-Jersey hogs at the
MlSsiSSippi-Alabama fair Septem-
Der 80 went to an eleven-hundred-
FOUNDER named Congressman, from
Tupelo, the home town of Repre-
sentative Rankin.
CENSORSHIP: A soldier stationed
in While House, Alaska, during the
war recently learned that a letter
of his had been held by army CEN
sorS for two years because it con-
tanned a snapshot that revealed his
location. THE only thing we could
write about freely was our excur-
sion trip to Great Bear Lake on the
Arctic Circle" he says. Nov l
find that all the uranium used in
the atom experiments came from
Great Bear Lake"
LABOR: T. D. Kemp, Jr., a col
umnist in the Charlotte, North Ca
roline, Observer, makes this sug-
geStiOn: Should the Russians sue
ceed in having General MsArthur
thrown out of Japan, he would be
useful here in our own country.
You a think of no better way to
end these strikes, particularly the
ones that get out of hand, than to
have General Macarthur take the
job of assisting President Truman
in Strengthening thing out. With a
few million veterans rallying
around Macarthur, labor bosses
will think twice before calling or
prOlonging strikes"
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Julian
Messner Award for the best book
combating intolerance in America
has been increased to an outright
prize of $4,000 plus an advance of
$500 against royalties by a grant
from the foundation established in
memory of Ensign Lionel Judah
Tacha, who was killed in the Battle
of the Coral Sea.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14

Friends; Persons who stick to-
gether till debt do them part.
A West Coast manufacturer
shocked a Congressional committee
by testifying that when he ~increas-
ed his workers wages, his profits
went up too. The National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers must have
slipped up somewhere. Could it be
that they forgot to mail him that
last piece of literature warning him
he'd go bankrupt if he paid his
workers a living wage? = John
Pain for Federated Press.
Reports received by American
Relief for Holland, a member agen-
cy of the National War Fund,
estimate that it will take twenty
five years to rebuild war-damaged
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
ODDS AND ENDS

The New York Herald Tribune
says Pearl Harbor, though a catas-
trophe, was ''one of the greatest
blessings in disguise that ever over
took this country" Well, the dis
guise sure had us fooled.-The St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
Failure: Something you can ac-
complish without effort.
No n can say for sure whether
the much amended Full Employ
ment Bill that has been passed by
the Senate will really help the
workers find jobs. Pessimists seem
to be of the opinion that all it
really does is give everybody a
hunting license. - Howard Bru-
baker in The New Yorker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
It's ON Issue of American Democracy

Twice the Federal anti poll tax bill has passed the House, only
to be flibudcred to death in the Senate, despite a strong majority in
favor of passing the bill For the third time the bill is before the Senate.
The House passed it almost 3 to /. The Senate Judiciary Committee has
recommended its passage to the Senate But a little clique of irrecon-
cIhablcS has announced they will talk the bill to death again.
More than half of the members of the Senate have definitely said
they will vote for HR 7, the Federal anti poll tax bill. They should
have chance to vote.
But the presiding officer must enforce every rule or the books
and in this Congress, with no Vice-Presdent, the President Pro Tenn
pore is Senator Mcclellan of poll tax Tennessee. The Senators who want
d chance to vote must be alert to violations of the rules, and must in
the presiding officer enforce the Senate's own rules.
TWothrds of the Senators, regardless of their views on the bill.
must be prepared to make democracy work by voting to close debate.
The poll tax is not a racial issue; it is an tissue of American democ-
racy. By the same token, invoking cloture is not IN issue of personal
privilege; 1t, too, is an issue of American democracy-The Brewery
Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
IT'S ABOUT TIME!

During the war, no one objected to carrying his packages home
from the store, nor were there objections to n O butter at the restaurant
table, nor were there objections about a lot of little things such as gift
WrappingS, ETC., etc.
Now that the war is over, it's about time merchants and restaurant
owners woke up to that fact. The money they saved by eliminating
a lot of little services was not passed on to the buyers, and the buyer
has a right to expect these conveniences once more.
If OPA can compel stores to give away matches with cigarettes,
if they did 70 before 1912, then how about OPA compelling merchants
to restore curtailed services for which they charged, but didn't deliver?
Store customers a help on this: refuse to carry your larger
bundles-make work for more men-and don't pay extra for the serv
ice. You've already paid for it once, and didn't get it.
No just principle of life ever Withered and died or crumbled in
the dust-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
KILL THE "DlES"

A unanimous U. S. Court of Claims decision, rebuking Congress
Tor Its attempt to fire" three executive department employees by legS-
lahve fiat, was almost inevitable. The Importance lies primarily in the
possibility that the courts sharp criticism may encourage reasonable
congressman to put up a harder fight hereafter against the witch
burning zealots of the Committee on Un-American Activities.
Robert Morss LoVett, Goodwin B. Watson and William E. Dodd Jr
were guilty of n o crime; their "offense" consisted of social and polite
ideals which deviated from the peculiar concepts of Representatives
Martin Dies and John H Kerr. So Dies and Kerr tried to hound them
out OF the public service. They got Congress to pass an unconstitutional
# aHander to deny the three officials their salaries. In that
moment the reputation of Congress suffered heavily.
Judge j. Warren Madden, in a concurrng opinion, called the con-
gresslonal act a shocking and outrageous injustice" The shocking and
outrageous thing for years has been the existence of the Dies committee
and its successor, dominated now by Representative Rankin, with it's
The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
COLLATERAL HUMOR

Under the Labor Governments
plan for naturalization of the
Bank of England the 1900 share
holders, with average holdings of
$4,000 each, will receive govern
ment securities assuring them of a
return equal to the average Yield
of bank stock over the last twenty
years.
Announcing his party's support
of the Government bill for nation
allzation, a Liberal party Spokes-
man remarked that if similar gen.
crosby were shown in other ma
tion~alization steps there would be
a demand from shareholders for
socialism in our time"
Not to be outdone, Chancellor of
the EXchequer Hugh Dalton sup
ported the proposed close official
cooperation of the Bank and the
Treasury with the statement: The
Government mad the people of the
country believe that the Old Man
of the Treasury (Mr. Dalton) and
the Old Lady of Threadneedle
Street (the Bank) should be legal
ly married. We should not like
there to be any danger of their
living in sin"
Conservative opposition to the
bill centers on Clause 4 which al
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
RELEASE DEMANDED
OF SURPLUS DOCTORS

The War Departments 'lei-
surely" release of surplus doctors
was roundly condemned by Sem
ators Edwin c. johnson (Dem..
Colo.) and Sheridan Downev
(Dem,. Calif.)
They asserted that many army
doctors r not working more
than a n hour or two a day. and
insisted they should be returned
promptly to this country to relieve
a civilian shortage.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
By FRANK GROSER

With all the suffering the Slo-
venes had gone thru they were a
Jolly lot, many a good time we had
together. Stanley Pirc played the
accordion and his sister Mile
played the Banjo. So at all gather
ings there was dancing and sing
ing, but drinks were very scarce.
We did a lot of travelling around
in our jeep and being in French
territory, didn't have to worry
about curfeW or any other rules.
So it was many a night we'd load
the jeep up and go thru the towns
singing SlOvene songs. Later the
SlOVeneS yer moved to some bar
racks near Karlsruhe where Amer
lean guards were at the gates and
no one without pass was allowed
in or out. But after talking to 4
of the guards l found one that let
me get in. Spent an hour with
liberated prisoners who hoped and
prayed for the Americans to liber-
ate them and in the end found
themselves locked in behind high
walls and the Nazis again free and
enjoying rations that were denied
them sc many years by the Ger
mans and now by their ~liberators.
Of the Jugoslavs that l met the
S1nxyny0nr 40 - 1y,1~J~ m, h. xNo~,1
anxious to get home. They heard
all of the propaganda about the
mean Russians and Tito and they
hated the Jews but they still want
ed to get home; to what they did
not know. Those most scared were
the Serbs, as they feared Tito and
they weren't gone home until the
Allies put King Peter back on the
throne. The Serbs started all kinds
of rumors SO that the SloveneS
wouldn't return. They said they
had to sign up with the Commun-
lists and then they would be sent
to Russia, and that all SlOVeneS in
JugOslaVia who weren't commun-
lists yer either in jail, dead or
slaves. The next time l went to
visit them I found that, except for
an old lady and her son, they had
all returned home, and the reason
the didn't return was that in Jugo-
slavia she couldn't pray anymore,
according to the propaganda.
| think that the experiences the
Slovenes and all D. P.'s had in
Germany is in the long run going
to make Europe a more modern
continent. For one thing, a lot of
them had for the first time the use
OF the radio, electric iron and many
other modern conveniences. If they
didn't use them, they got to see
them IN use. We can expect to see
many troubled days ahead for
these liberated Europeans, as the
Americans have the big job of fat
tening up the Germans who haven't
had a very good diet for the past
6 or 8 months.
With all the trouble over here
see by the papers that everything
isn't very rosy back home, and the
Tune is getting near where I'll be
n OF "yous'e" civilians again, but
that isn't worrying me as 1 am darn
anxious to get in and help recon
vert America into the kind of a
place that we've fought to make
Europe. From my article one may
gather that all American soldiers
are bad. That is not what I'm try
ing to imply. The good done have
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14
GOING up!

Any hope consumers may have
entertained for lower clothing
prices went glimmering.
The Office of Price Administra-
ton said that cost cuts scheduled
for this fall cannot be made before
early 1946-if then.
AS a matter of fact, on some
lines consumers will have to a
more. The O. P. A. granted a 4
per cent hike to manufacturers of
knit underwear. Non-elastic mar
row fabrics were dropped from
price control, and that makes the
sky the limit on prices.
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WITH sLOvENE .. P.s I'M GERMANY

been told many times, and what
I've written I've experienced first
hand.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14

lows the Treasury, through the
nationalized Bank, to ask informa-
ton of and make recommendations
to private bankers.-The Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-14

A lot of drivers get into traffic
trouble by hugging the wrong
curve.