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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-16
NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Our Domestic Military Influence
By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash ingtOn COrreSpOndent

Washington, D. C., Jan. l6 - Again the alarm is being raised in Washington that the influence of the military is becoming dominant and this is being looked on as bad
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Daily Almanac Sun rises at 8:l9 a. m. sets at 5:45 ?. m. (war ume) Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
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ing up Of the soil SO that the things which make for life can come in more time for friends. for helpful acts. for reflection. for good books, for God and the things Of the Spirit. All Rights Reserved --Babson News
 paper Syndicate
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STREET CLEANER CONGRESSMAN

Congressman William J. Gal- lagher, the former Minneapolis street-cleaner has been having quite 8 time romping around the Capitol since his arrival in Wash ington.
 The other morning, Gallagher sitting in his office alone, an- sWered the phone.
 "ls Mir. Mum there," asked a voice inquiriDg for the Congress mans secretary.
 Nope" replied Gallagher. "he ain't here. Who's caIIing?"
 This Is the White House. We'll call back" answered the voice.
 Nuts tO you practical jOkers," said Gallagher, banging down the phone. To his surprise, after Gai- lagher's secretary returned, th' phone rang again and 1t was one of the White House secretaries wanting some information.
 Later the same Gallagher Mhlktu ObtI Lo LIIG DLhbC~ ly Senate caucus room. where he attended the Democratic policy making powWoW. When it was all over. he ambled out of the room. but couldn't get his bear ings.
 "iey, boy" hOIlered Gallagher at good -natuTed young Con gressman Outland of California, "HOw in hell do ! get out of here?" Outland smiled. showed him the way back to the House Office building. He didn't tell the gen tleman from Minnesota who he was.
 STETTINIUs SPREADS OUT
 When Secretary Stettinius ap- peared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to urge con- firmatiOn of his peW assistants, he was asked about press reports that he planned to wrest from Leo Crowley the Foreign Econ omic Administration one of the
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Congressman Cox Shows How Lose Toxpoyer Money Public Condence StreeCeon Congressman Arrives Cop toI; State Department Reaches the FEA.
BY DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON issued
  and o the
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MAYBE THE MILITARY WAS RIGHT

Any way you look at these recent curbs on the civilian economy, they seem to bear out a sneaking suspicion that maybe the military point of VieW-General Staff thinking, if that's what it was was right in the first place. Maybe there should have been national service law passed a year ago when Undersec- retary of War Patterson first stuck his neck out to advocate its neces- sity. Maybe the military authorities were right when they baked at the spot authorization plan for limited reconVersion.
 The military master minds aren't perfect by long shot and they have made plenty blunders. But when the Army has to furlough men to make tires and steel and help with the crops, that is a severe in- dictment that the men behind the men behind the guns have fallen down on the job. II little more at- tentlon had been paid earlier to the military thinking on manpower and production control the war today might be little further along.
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A Thought for Today

~ The increase of his house shall depart. and hts goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by GOd-JOb 2O:28-29.
 Mental stains can not be removed by time nor washed away by any waters-Cicero.
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national service legislation issue - all these things are supposed to add up to the conclusion that General Staff thinking is dictating too many domestic policies. The all-out llber- als view this with some concern, be- lieving that in a democracy the civ- ilians should be telling the military what to do and not the other way around.
 The last time this military domin- ation was presented as an issue peo- pie were expected to get excited about, Donald M. Nelson as Chair man of the War Production Board was supposed to be fired to prevent Lieutcnant-Ge Brehon B. Som ervell from getting control of war production and the civilian economy in general.
 PLOTS SEEN AT EVERY TURN
 The Washington observers who see deep dark plots in every little thing tried to build this upset into a big feud. Nelson was backed by the War Investigating Committee, than headed by Senator Harry s. Truman. The committee secretly eX- pressed itself as ordering Nelson to tell the Administration and generals where to get off. When Nelson put over his spot authorization" plan for a limited reconversion, that was supposed to be a great victory for the civilian over the military.
 Then Nelson himself was relieved of WIPE control, Senator Truman was nominated to the Vice Pres idency and his once-potent commit tee seemed to lose much of it punch. The military is now present. ed as having been in the ascendant from then on.
 Any idea that this can be inter- preted as coup, d'etat, putsch, or just plain old American take-over of power, is of course so much bal derdaSh. Things like that don't hap pen ill the United States. Bureau- cratS in or out of uniform may Wrangle among themselves for po- sition, departmental influence, and pet ideas, but that isn't the whole government as long as Congress, for all it's faults, still breathes.
 But granted that Army and Navy general staff thinking does not dom mate the executive departments of the government, and that this &C., counts for such things as the recent orders to stop spot authorization, close the race tracks, draft farm workers, put ceilings on live cattle, tighten up meat, butter, sugar and canned goods rationing, cut back civilian goods production, take over Montgomery Ward and similar trou- ble spots, cut down on coal con- sumption, turn off the display of advertising lights so as to save fuel what of it?
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It was the last report of the House committee Investigating the Federal Communications Commit tee. It cost the taxpayers $100,000 It used up the time of a five man committee of CongreSSmen for two years, plus dozens of EGG officials who had to drop the work they were doing to an- 5Wer committee questions.
 In the end, it reported that nothing was wrong with EGG, praised ex-Chairman Larry Fly, and exOnerated Tom COrcOran and Ed Noble Of the Blue Net work of any wrong doing in con- nectiOn with the purchase of Station WMCA.
 Behind the investigation was the personal vengeance of one man Congressman Eugene "GOOher" Cox of Georgia. The EGG had learned ne accepted a $2,500 fee from a Georgia radio station for lobbying before the EGG in connection with a wave length, and reported the matter to the Justice Department. The head of the criminal division rec commended prosecution.
 WhereupOn Cox, one of the most powerful men in Congress, with whole string of relatives on the public payroll, initiated an investigation of the EGG. For q time he had field day. He employed as counsel Eugene Carey, one of ROOsevelt's bitter est enemies. And with Cox himself sitting as chairman, he rode rOughshOd over the EGG.
 Finally, other Congressional leaders realized that CoXS thirst for blood was blackening the name Of all Congressmen and they forced him out. The probe dragged on i'll the leSS-biaSet hands of Congressman Lea of California, in the end giving all those investigated clean bill of health. Net result was to focus reams of unfaVorable and un- deserved publicity on Noble, Cor coran and Fly whom everyone now comedies did an Al job. But more than that it boomeranged and hurt Congress.
 As long as one Congressman can use the cOmradery of his colleagues on Capitol Hill to wield the tremendous inVeS- tigating powers of Congress in a personal grudge fight, the pub lie is not going to have much faith in our legislative institu- ton.
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(Copyright,( 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, IncD
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03
The Readers Digest
Not Impartial

Is the Readers Digest a mirror of current American opinion? In
raising the question the magazine and newspaper committee Of the Ma
tonal Council of Teachers of English has performed a useful service.
And the hysterical efforts of DR.. Angela Broening, president of the
National Council, to have its report suppressed seem completely I'M
justified even by normal academic standards. The report contained no
conclusions and no recommendations but it brought into the open the
fact that the Readers Digest is in the main not a digest at all but a
staff planned publication whose editorial policy influences not only its
own selection of articles but those of other magazines as well. The COM
mitees analysis showed that approximately As per cent OF the maya
zines contents wa not reprint but original material, fully a third OF
it's contents wa editorially planned by the Digest staff, and 10 per cent
was actually prepared by the staff. To give the effect of presenting a
cross-section of American thought, a substantial proportion of the hot
bed articles were planted in other periodicals first and were then re
printed" by the Digest. The genuine reprint articles covered o the
most part human-interest and scientific subjects; a very large proper
ton Of the antilabor, anti Russian, and ant-New Deal articles were
products of the Digests office. No one will deny the Dgests right to
plan and prepare such articles, any more than one would deny Dewitt
Wallace the right to contribute Sc, 500 to the Republican National Com
mntee. And alert English teachers will undoubtedly continue to Isl the
Digests controversial articles in Their public-speaking and debating
courses. None of them, however, will be fooled into believing that the
Digest is impartial. - The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03
NO. 1947.


We have never regarded the Atlantic Charter as a precise and
legally innexibe instrument of diplomacy. We have always regarded
it as a general statement of certain broad and fundamental United Ma
lions ains-ains whose realization would require the framing of other,
more specific statements of intent on various subjects, and which also
would require the undertaking of clear and legally binding interna-
tonal continents.
Therefore we were not disturbed by President Roosevets revea-
ton the other day that no official copy of the charter exists and that,
consequently, n o one ever "signedi the charter in the technical sense.
a declaration of adherence to it has been signed by representatives
been signed in substance" In our book, and certainly in his, it is as
morally binding is if the signatures were affixed to the original piece
of paper upon which Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Churchill and their aids, in
Guiding Summer Welles, drew up that famous Joint declaration" of
the American President and British Prime Minister at sea N August
Ia, 1941.
A valid criticism of the charter is that the sentence expressing
desire to seq no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely
expressed wishes of the peoples concerned should have been amended
to permit such a change, in the general interest of all peoples, as can
best solve the problem of East Prussia. The Germans of East Prussia
obviously aren't going to like losing that land. Except where clearly
overridden by the general interest of the world, however, the wishes
of the majority of those people who are deeply rooted in any contested
locality ought to prevail.
Having just reread the charter a a whole, We still believe that its
principles are excellent; that despite all present manifestations of
power politics" they r still very much alive in the world; that their
triumph will require a long fight but can, in the essentials, be won;
and that the United States government today, aided by public opinion
in most lands, is striving to serve them well-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03

trade unions for collective bar
gaining.
Our Whole-hearted support of
the Free Trade Union Committee
campaign will mean that AmerI-
can labor is standing by the demo-
cratic forces in European and
South American labor in their con-
tinuing fight against all forms of
totalitarianism. And if our aid to
these labor forces is sto little and
too late" it may can the end of
genuine democracy in Europe for
a century to come.
l therefore know that all of our
affiliated locals and all of our
members will understand the
meaning of this call for help and
respond Fundamentally in Janu-
airy, 1945, when the campaign for
the Free Trade Union Fund will
be conducted
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03

We pity the millions of workers who have had so much to say in
the past about Roosevelts liberalism"
1t was they who spoke long and loudly about the Atlantic Charter.
1t was they who were permitted to base their hopes for a better world
upon the promise of four freedoms everywhere in the word-without
being set right by their President, although Prime Minister Churchill
did take early opportunity to let it be known that he was still COM
mitted to the slavery upon which empire is based.
But the trusting liberals still had their Roosevelt-untl third
week in December.
Now they know that the Atlantic Charter-about which they said
and wrote SO many words and upon whose promises of a free future
they ratlonaized the slaughter of war-doesnt mean any On
this side of the Atlantic than it does three thousand miles to the east.
The Atlantic Charter is -
Just another scrap of paper.
So says the President-now.
1t doesn't mean anything. American liberals know it now. So do
the embatted Greeks and the frustrated and troubled Poles and,
probably, the exploited millions of the Orient.
I'd Well, liberals" what ARE w fighting for now if O fr a world
order of justice and freedom and peace and security? You don't know,
terms, won't you, before you know anything?
We suspect that some of those liberals" who have insisted upon
going along with Roosevelt-no matter what-are diillusioned. And
ment always has been the lot of a generation that expected a leader
to free them from the bondage of ancient wrongs.
Don't blame Roosevelt if your hopes are shattered in the end
Even the President of the United States must conform to facts. And the
outstanding fact is that the private profit economy can't exist when
lei are free.
We Socialists told you that when the Charter was first handed to
you as a n immortal document -. before it was recognized IS a scrap
OF paper. Now we tell you to be prepared for other scraps of paper.
There's is only one way in which people can be safe and free.
They must free themselves - by ending the immoral private-profit
system and replacing it with the cooperative commonwealth which
American liberals rejected last November Reading Labor Adj
vocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03
HELP GIVE FREEDOM
TO LABOR ABROAD
By MAX ZARITSKY

Any thoughtful plan for a de-
mocratic postwar Europe must ma
turally call for efforts to re-stab-
lish Europe's free, democratic and
independent trade union move
ment. The war of ideas which we
have been fighting against Nazism
and fascism will not have been
won if labor abroad remains per-
manently crushed, permanently
impoverished.
Postwar peace and postwar
plenty both hinge on the vigor and
independence of labor abroad.
Crushed and impoverished labor
movements cannot fight for decent
living standards for their own
workers: the flood of cheap COM
modities produced by impoverish-
ed labor will be a threat to Amer
lean industry and therefore a
threat to the high living Standards
of American workers.
These are some of the reasons
why the Labor League for Human
Rights, relief arm of the American
Federation of Labor, has set up a
Free Trade Union Committee, for
the purpose of extending vitality
needed practical assistance to Eu-
rcpean and Central and South
American trade union movements.
To help rebuild these trade union
movements, speedily and democ-
ratically, the Free Trade Union
Committee will conduct a cam
paign to raise a minimum of ST.
000, 900 from AFL members dur
ing January, 1915.
The American Federation OF
Labor has always recognized that
organized workers anywhere have
a moral right and obligation to as
sist their fellow workers every
where. Through the Free Trade
Union Committe, the ALL car
make a human and unique con
I tribution to the establishment oil
peace, democracy, and a higher
standard of living at home ane
abroad, by helping the workers o.
other lands to build strong, free
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03
UNCLE SAM
VOL. XII.

The latest reports of the Securities and Exchange Commission
show that-there is no lid on profits. Even after the renegotiation of tho
War contracts and the payment of taxes o excess profits" the profits
Of 267 corporations producing wal materials increased by 10 percent
IN l943 over the. fabulous figures chalked up for 1912.
If anybody thinks they will be any less for 1914, he has another
think coming from the indications of some of the quarterly reports of
corporations in 1914 already made.
Profits, after payment of taxes, for the 267 corporations were
S6OO,OOOO00 in 1943-a gain of $780, 0O 900 over profits of 1912.
How literally contracts with the government have been drawn is
shown by the fact that these corporations returned $780, 900 900 to the
"a even figured ut the profits and taxes noted above, and, in many
cases, the money was paid before the formal renegotiation of the con-.
tracts as the corporations themselves realized that the original pncpS
the government had agreed to we're excessive in view of actual pro-.
duction costs.
lime is everything in war. Prices can only be guessed because
there is no previous experience to guide either the government or the
contractor in figuring the probable cost Of a new thing like a B29 or
a Sherman tank. AS a rule, costs ire reduced rapidly after production
gets under way. But the return of half a billion dollars from two yearS
profits shows that your Uncle Sam is no tight wad when dealing with
Big Business-UnitedM Mine Workers Journal
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60 MILLION JOBS

President Roosevelt recently declared the peace-time economy of
this nation must be geared to sixty million jobs. The President bases
his declaration o n a cooperative program involving labor, the farmer
industry and commerce.
The nations business press looks askance upon such a program
and frankly doesn't believe it possible without ar extension of our
export trade beyond anything this country has ever had in the past
Pure bosh!
Sixty million JOBS is not a impossible goal. 1t is worth repeating
tat elevation of the lowest one-third of III population to the level of
the middle one-third would create employment for many more millions
than w have ever had in a peace time economy.
1t is also worth repeating that sc long a. n child has n O clothes
ut to wear, o r a glass o two of milk a day, and bread, a decent home
and a chance for a education and a opportunity to grow no inf
Decent self-respectng citizenship, our work is cut out for us.
Achlevlng MI tremendous task, in this country, would mean EN-.
ploynent for every man and woman who needs a job Or who wants
a job.
Let's set about this task O n that basis mt ~ theory
We have the resources, we have the skill, we have the brains and
w naV the money. Now let's create the jobs by elevating our national
standard of lving-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-03
Q FREEDOM?

In the countries where people
r slaves they r today asking
questions. When we went around
the world, people in some coun-
tries said, THE United States of
America is bound by the Atlantic
Charter"
We cautioned them that that
was a noble declaration but not
the law of either the United Sta
ties or Great Britain. They said,
ooh, but you are bound; we have
a right to be free, and you are
going to help make us free
When we asked them freedom
from whom?" they would say free
dom from one of the Allies.
If we are to say in the future
to these people that this was a
war between Fascists in imperial
ist powers, and that all the slaves
have to look forward to is a re-
turn to slavery and their old mas
ters, we have not done a thing but
d1sillusion hundreds of millions OF
people throughout the world.
American boys are again fight
ing and dying on a thousand fronts
for democracy, the second time in
a generation, and if all they are te
accomplish is the securing of pos
sessions all over the world for i'm
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IS A PROPHET, But
CAN'T CURE ULCERS

Do you wish to know when the
war will end in Europe? Well
stick a pin in this date-August IL,
1945. We didn't pick it; it was fig
ured out by Basil Shackleton, a
London photographer.
According to the scientists VINO
have been experimenting with him.
Shackleton is quite a fellow. They
think he a look into the future
and describe an event before II
happens.
Shackleton admits he is an "eX'
traordinary character" but he says
possession of a unique mind may
get one into serious difficulties.
Sometimes" he told the report
ers, Il sit in a bar having a drlhA
and for no apparent reason a com
plete stranger will grab me by the
neck and punch me in the jaw.
He explains that these parties
have weaker minds" and thS,
they resent the thought waves
which emanate from his Uranium.
The scientists will publish
book about Shackleton. In u"
meantime, he is going to a SANTA
rum. He can predict the end OF ".
war, but he doesn't know how
cure stomach ulcers.--Labor.
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understand that if they produced
beyond the nations needs the sur
plus would have to be disposed of
for what they could get. That was
counted On as a restraint on over
production.
Substantially the same scheme
was suggested by Wickard for
wheat, but he indicated it could
be applied to cotton and other
crops of which there is a surplus.
But more than this is needed
to assure a prosperous agriculture,
Wickard said.
He warned that farmers can sell
their produce at fair prices only if
Industrial workers have full en-
ployment at good wages.
IF there are not jobs for all, at
Sood wages" he declared, sit will
lead to calamity for ALL"
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perialist powers, and returning the
people in those countries to slav-
cry when the war is over, we will
not have accomplished anything.
There is already a dispatch or
two from London stating that the
British consider the first utter
ances of Secretary of State Stet-
tinius insulting to them. | am not
pleading for any unrealistic atti-
tude. ! do not consider it necessary
to insult others, but we have to
tell the truth, even if thatsmay be
insulting.
I do not advocate being insult
ing to friends or allies, but / do
advocate being realistic with them,
and telling the truth.
Senator Chandler.