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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
CAPITALISM STILL BREEDS WAR

1t may be that those Americans, who have criticized the British
policy toward the Poles and Greeks and who howled in anguish when
Churchill let it be known that his chief wal objective is the preser-
Vatlon OF the Empire, were surprised to learn, that there are English
who don't think too well of this country.
winch shows, among other things, that people have short memories
After World War Britain didn't like Us either. Having taken
America treasure and soldiers while the late Kaiser was threatening
Brtans rulers later reacted as many debtors do; they became peeved
whenever they were reminded about their debt. They changed the
name of Uncle Sam" to Uncle Shylock!" They tried to trade off the
debts they owed America for the debts Germany owed them. And not
to this day has the debt of World War 1 been paid.
We delve into this bit of ancient history, at a time when relations
between the present Engish-speaking alliance are somewhat less than
cordial, because the whole thing presents a preview of what is likely
to happen when thermenace of Hitler is removed.
Dorothy Thompson pointed out that the only thing that keeps the
United Nations" united today is the German threat. What will divide
them after the war is another, but a very familiar, matter.
Ii both Britain and America insist upon preserving the private
profit system they must either come to a agreement as to the division
o fthe worlds markets n change from allies to rivals.
economic competition is going to become increasingly serious at
the same rate that world markets contract And after the war is over
1t won't be long before hghlydeveloped world capitalism will again
create unstable SURPRISES.
Sad experience should have taught any thinking adult mhat that
means. 1t means a return of the old economic rivahes out of which,
Woodrow Wilson warned, wars develop.
Yes, capitalism has bred wars in the past and will in the future
Had humanity learned that lesson, SO apuy taught by Wilson at the
close of the last conflict, the present war might never have occurred
More important, unless they learn that lesson soon, another gene
ration Will nave to fight and die to evolve a transient solution for the
problems that arise within a competitive world.
Only international Socialism will make real and lasting peace
possible. This generation will have to decide whether it will accept
the cure or endure the pains of another and cosuier slaughter-Read-
ing Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
a Judge in Boston Who is
Worth Of Honorable Mention

When Boscton bites a book it is not news, but when a Boston
Judge dismissed a charge of obscenity and, in the bargain, says that
policemen and detectives and judges of the Municipal Court, including
himself, m not qualified to pass on the literary value of books. it is
worth honorable mention. A clerk at the Dartmouth Book Stall was
Ground after the Watch and Ward Society had complained about it
The detective who arrested the clerk cited a passage in the book about
a woman being with a man who was naked to the waist. Judge Elijah
Adlow OF the Municipal Court was not impressed. He cited by COM
parlslon some OF the dancers at some of the shows in town" who on
unue to be unarrested. He then asked. the detective if he had read
Anthony Adverse" o Gone with the Wind" Detective Blake replied
that n had not Whereupon Judge AdIow observed, That's the trouble
with me Police Department. They haven't a big enough library" He
went On to say that it lis not for me or for you to try to establish the
literary tastes of the community" To be sure, he could not help indmg-
ing a little literary criticism himself He said that Tragic Ground" was
o dull book % you would have to chain yourself to a chair To
sead" but he can hardly be blamed for exercising any readers pre-
rogatlve. We ae glad, incidentally, to learn that legislation is to be in
troduced at the next session of the Massachusetts legislature by which
the book and not the clerk who sells it would be on trial. If Boston
must make its periodical sa1les into censorship, let it pick on the
author 0 n the publisher and not the clerk who sells a book. The author
and the publisher may at least be presumed to have read ii. = The
Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
NGLO-AMERlCAN
NDERSTANDIN
AND BOOKS

Douglas Goldring, English writ
err, comments:
"A factor which contributes to
misunderstanding between Ameri-
cans and Britons is the one-way
traffic in books, films, and dance
music. Practically all the films
shown here come from Hollywood,
and the BIC relentlessly plugs the
foulest jitterbug tunes from Amer
lea. ITS percent of our publishers
scanty stocks of paper are devoted
to books of American origin, but
only rs percent of American pub
locations come from England. The
American market has for years
been closed to all but a handful
of bestsellers, and a few of the
more fashionable highbrows. This
can only mean that American
readers are simply not interested
in what the British people are
thinking about the war or plan
ming for the peace"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Ralph G.. Carpenter, director of
the New Hampshire Fish & Game
Department, in an interview with
the Concord Daily Monitor and
New Hampshire Patriot on Decem-
Der /, offered the following sug-
gestions for the economic reab-
Sorption of World War III veterans:
% "a few of them might we'll
hunt and raise porcupines, COM
monty known as quill pigs, if they
have the ingenuity to find a mar
ket for their meat" ~ yankee
shrewdness, coupled with vision
and patience, might well create
a new and profitable market for
quill pens, which once were the
only kind used in signing official
documents. Quilts from ducks
have been used in the past, but it
is quite possible that turkeys
quilts, white or black, might be
used if the idea were properly Gull
tivated.'
A gentle business directory is
being compiled in Chicago. The
letterhead of the promoters bears
this motto: millions of Gentiles
Banded Together to Preserve the
Gentle Way of Life, Gentle Bus
mess Ethics, Gentle Educational
System, Gentle Moral Standards"
The address is in the heart of the
financial district.
Captain Lucien A. DUMAS, a
French Canadian from Montreal,
has recently returned to London
after nine months work with the
French maquis. He was one of the
seventy Canadians who paraccut-
! ed into different parts of France
to help organize resistance to the
! Germans prior TO the Allied inva-
I sion. He said it was exciting
work, but too much administrative
detail"
Festung Europa: The Nazi prop
aganda machine in Norway has
abandoned its campaign to con-
vince the people that the forced
evacuation of the northern part of
the country was a flight from
Bolshevik terror" The stories of
the evacuees are SO uniformly IN
favorable to the Germans that
they have been ordered not to talk.
The penalty is death A report
from Prague has it that the wives
of the S. S. men have been sup
piled with revolvers and hand
grenadeS. .
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
NAM NATIONWIDE
CAMPAIGN

A highpowered advertising cam
paign by big business in daily pa
pers in every city in the country
with populations of $4,000 and
over began.
Financed by the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, the adj
vertising campaign is designed to
convince the public of the ole
Hoover formula that if business is
left alone it will provide full en-
ployment and higher living stan
dards after the war.
Under preparation for a year,
the campaign will be pushed
through nine newly-established
regional offices throughout the
country.
The MANS campaign is geareo
to the realization that a large sec
ton of the American public either
blames big business for the depres-
sion or believes that it proved it.
self incapable of pulling the nation
out of the slump.-(LPA.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

One week after Pearl Harbor
was attacked by the Japanese the
Socialists Of Berks County, assem-
bled in their regular annual gen
eral membership meeting, adopted
a resolution in support of the war
into which the nation had entered
six days before. BY that action the
local Socialists reversed the stand
against war which they maintain
ed during World War l.
In order that their declaration
should not be a mere empty ges-
ture, and to strengthen and justify
their action, the Berks Socialists
stated the reason for their posi-
ton in the clearest possible Ian
guage. They made it plain that
they considered the conflict more
than war between nations. To
them it was a war of ideals in
volving a way of life. The antagon-
lists not merely Japan and
Germany on one side and America
on the other, but-and this was of
superior Observation-Disclosures die
~tatorship and democracy.
And so it was that the Socialist
war declaration contained such
sentences as
"Unualified and unlimited sup
port of democracy"
"Such w~holehearted support
will mean sacrifice, but for a prin-
ciple worth sacrificing for"
"All out with everything we
have"
Long live democracy"
So, too, it was that, in project
ing their thoughts to victory, the
Socialists called for -
"A victory which will bring a
peace from which all ideas of re-
venge and punishment must be ex-
cluded -. and "a peace whichl
will declare for a complete aban-
donment of aggression.
Socialists made good on that de-
claration.
They shared the sacrifices OF
war without complaint.
They saw their sons drafted
without resistance.
They supplied their quota of
service and blood.
They submitted to RECOMMENDATION
and controls on the home front
with only the time-honored Social
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

; ist demand that no favored class
of Wner should profit from the
sacrifice and cooperation of the
American people.
Socialists we're and still are will
ing to compromise and suffer -
when the issue is democracy YER
sus dictatorship!
However =
The course the wal has taken
during the year just ended sug-
gests the necessity of re-examin-
ing the issue.
Is America fighting for democ-
racy-or for an international or
ganization of imperialist nations?
Are the detectives of the Unit
ed Nations" an economy of human
justice upon which lasting peace
can be based = or the domination
of the world by force of arms?
Will we thwart the aggression
of Hitler only to see the Hitler
plan established by the group of
nations of which we are a part?
Has the issue changed from
WHAT shall be done" to WHO
shall DO IT?"
The questions here presented
are justified by events . by the
continued recognition of fascist
leaders in neutral and conquered
nations -. by the frank Churchill
declaration of Britain'S determine
ton to preserve imperialist x
ploitation 49,. by territorial dis
putes that threaten Allied unity
even before victory is achieved :.
by Britain's use of arms against
Greeks who fought bravely against
NaZi invaders.
And here at home questions are
justified by the fact that, while
workers are regimented and con-
trolled, corporations are permitted
to increase their net profits to new
highs -. that America is planning
for world control with imperialists
that White House pressure is
exerted for a law to draft workers
to the service of private profit
takers that the Department of
State suddenly was converted into
a "millionaires' club
The political course of the war
has placed Socialists, and all others
who believe in human brother
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
UNDERGROUND JOKES
A SECRET WEAPON

A starving Jew crept out of the
Warsaw Ghetto to try to find some
thing for his children to eat. He
was caught trying to steal a few
potatoes. The Gestapo officer was
about to shoot him.
please, sir, | have five children
who are dying of hunger. Have
mercy. You probably have child
ren too"
IF you will tell me which of my
eyes is glass;" the Gestapo officer
said mockingly, "Tll let you 60"
The Jew looked at his eyes,
which looked exactly alike. Trem-
bling, he guessed, THE left one
Surprised, the Gestapo officer
said, How did you know my left
eye is false?"
Because it looked SO kindly al
me-" the Jew answered.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
NEWS FROM RUSSIAN
WAR RELIEF, INC.

The Soviet people received from
Russian War Relief more than &c.
500, 900 worth of American cloth
ing, household articles, medival
equipment and other relief sup
plies during the three months end
ing Oct. /, it was announced re-
Gently by Edward c. Carter, pres
ident of the American relief agen-
cy. The supplies we're transported
on 105 ships.
The quarterly report was CON
tanned in a cablegram Mr.. Carter
just received from Vladimir Ke-
menov, president of VOKS, the
Soviet Society for Cultural ReIa-
tons with Foreign Countries,
which serves as the distributing
agency for Russian War Relief
supplies.
Mr.. Kemenov expressed graft
tude to all those who contributed
to this campaign to assist the Rus
sian people in today's war against
Nazism, an thanks for this mark
of friendship and cooperation"
Included in the shipment were
7,774 pieces of clothing worth 81
153, 100. Other large items were
kits. containing household supplies
valued at $943, ITO, and 5000, 22O
worth of medical equipment ano
supplies.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

hood and fundamental justice, on
the spot.
The issue is the same, but the
facts r different. And what are
true democrats going to do about
it?
That the cause of democracy
would not. be served merely by
withdrawing from the war is obvi-
Gus. But it is equally obvious that,
if we permit our war administra-
ton to shatter democracy while
this war is being fought, no post
war administration is going to be
able to re-assemble the pieces.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
NEWS GETS AROUND

A family with a summer cottage
in a wild region in Wisconsin
bought blueberries from an Indian
for several years at SO cents per
pail. Last year he upped the price
to 81.
Why" asked the vacationist.
And the Indian replied: Big
war some place"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

Why should there be any objec-
ton to a permanent House com
mittee On un-American activities?
1t sounds like a fine idea, prov
ided we can all agree on a defini-
ton of Americansm. Let's start off
with a few basic principles.
Is fair play Americansm? The
right to a fair and open hearing
when charges are brought against
you? The right to confront your
accusers?
Certainly this is something we
can all agree on, one thing that
distinguishes us from totalitarian
countries.
But the old Dies committee
didn't follow this policy. 1t held
star-chamber proceedings and con-
demned its victims in wholesale
lots, without trial, on hearsay testi-
mony.
On New Years Day, Martin Dies
used to issue his annual list of vic
TINS prescribed. Once he accused
l,121 government employees en-
masse of un-American activities
all but two of whom were later
exonerated by the F. B. 1.
First Subpoena Should Be
For MIR. Dies
Here is something for the new
committee to work on. 1t should
issue its first subpoena for Martin
Dies on a charge of introducing
Gestapo methods into the United
States.
There is another principle we
can all agree upon. 1t is un-Amer-
lean in this country to deny any
citizen the right to vote, and tc
work at any job for which he is
capable.
Are there any persons in thi.
country who engage in such un.
American activities? Yes, there
are. Right in the House of Repre-.
sentatives.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
RENO'S 1914 DIVORCES

RENO, New. = A record break
ing all-time high for Reno's di-
vorce mills was established in
1914. The 7,030 DEGREES granted
topped by more than a thousand
the previous record, established in
1943.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

If the committee means business
it will order an immediate investi-
cation Of the poll-tax congressman,
summoning as the first witness
Representative Rankin of Miss
iSsippi.
MIR. Rankin introduced the reso-
luton to create the new committee
on un~American activities, and
certainly he could not object to its
powers of subpoena.
Committee Could Even
DevOur Itself
While Rankin is on the stand,
the members should inquire into
the strange coalition of poll-tax
Democrats and Northern Repub-
licans.
Here is a real conspiracy angle,
and the members cannot ignore it
because the combination resulted
in the creation of the committee
itself.
They have a good lead in a re-
mark Representative Rankin made
on the floor of the House when a
New Deal congressman warned
that all Americans have a right to
express their honest opinions on
political matters.
Rankin disagreed, observing that
the honest opinions of ''subversiVe
groups" had unseated observing
members of Congress.
The committee on un-American
activities must first of all deter
mine whether it wasn't set up for
the un-American purpose of VIC
timizing people who in the last
election subverted certain pollt-
icians from their soft seats in Con-
greSS.
In such a case, the committee
would be in duty bound to declare
itself an un-American activity anu
disband as the first order of bus
| mess.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

Stealing a kiss may be petty
larceny, but sometimes it's grand.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
NEW DIES COMMITTEE
SHOULD Q THE Q u

KENESAW NJ. LANDS IL, in the Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17
Has The Issue Changed from "What
Shall be Done to who Shall do It?"

By AYMON HOFSES, Editor Reading Labor Advocate
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-17

A YugoSlav Weekly Devoted to the
Interest of the Workers
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
j. S. F. and IT'S Educational Bureau
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-06-02
now How time flies?
A TIP TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS

Mrs Rosa Gragg, prominent club woman who has a
lob public relations boss for local insurance society
Dear lady technique in relations TO newspapers IS
all wrong Get the good side of them.
Attention. Alfred Siska superintendent Of Police We
read that alarmed by the recent increase Of
crimes and have Just set in motion system for curb
ing attacks women
The order to have all beat patrolmcn and scout car
talk all women deserted st at
hours for the purpose Of seeing that they get home safely
is good We hope this applies to all black yellow
and white and that the have been instructed 10 be
courteous possible. But your order stop every
in which young girl is riding with at a late
hour is going to be headache We that your
police officers to have lots Of fun So be prepared
for plenty Of 'beefs' from the poor citizens.
Joe Johnson. Jr. former assistant manager Of John
sons S7pcr Service. is noixin~ your drinks at the
Paradise Bowl From TO the spirits
Don't pay over the ceiling il yoW find ANYTHING
70 buy the OPA warning Cause somebody will get into
trouble Last week Mrs Daisy NJ GLADDEN. Of Martin
Fish and Poultry Market 1928 Hastings paid fine of
$50 TO Judge D Watts for selling Ia chickens above
ceino nrcos The r1cc said she got off light.
Buy noW--Ruv Ronds
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-06-02
Bulletin Board

Blue Note from Rod Reed Of Down Beat takes
week atd Prl Hnne Hi,ler
4 t k dead but they should remember that one of tho
4 compliments swing music ever got was that Hitler
FACE. we Know-Pretty Alice Charleston. much
h. "a and admired has married hoofcr and * reported
NJ 81, Il, .g in New York City Her apartment on Or
chera place has been taken by Messrs r. j. Jack
a I'm ASA Doe Savage.
c1arlcs c Diggs Michicans most colorfll politician
a sn smiles because Charles Junior coming home from
thc The senior Digs said that il will not be 4 Of NJ
fo voting Charles; il will be cmbalmng school Digs I;
] nare be remembered in the morcian's field
We don't want to muscle in Prophet Jones but
safely predict that LLOYD LOOMS is about to win
3; r}rder in Circuit court
lsnkv Bowman. trouble shooter for the AZ Of NJ
hra hats. has been holding down spot in Duke
Tinrion's band at the Paradise all week TIC regular
man is on the sick list Duke may take Iank, 10 chi
A hen hack here in MEXICAN for the S,,nfr Con
ccv MA auditorium Flint. Michigan June 8
We acree with the Hollywood critics on what Warner
'0r has done to our Louis Armstrong in tho picture
Ffor Pillow To Post Armstrong plays about four hars
X IS from some INSIGNIFICANT pom SOM and mugus
ay throuoh vocal with Dorothy Dandridcc The l,se
r. rreat trumret king in the picture was niocc of
y cement to hc~n with thnrc was no coll FOR
faro performer in this little night club SPOT Some
W"r p"o+hers should hove his hoad d.,ntcd IN
a rll & cold water
Nis Junior Jones. tall sun-kSsed charmer from La.
a Dod enc about Rochester 1Eddio Arderson) and
a Ronnv Rochester belongs to tho NE chur-h n hor
aerhood and usually gets TO attend church about
a. fv.'co wear Whom 10 docs como hcrc IS alv.avs
2 ra AND Rochester struts down the aisle and drons
frdred bucks on the table After that Jack rms down
th allies caves S40o donation and both beat Il This han
ocN each year and the folks in tho CONGREGATION
f'ra' ook forward TO this big annual event
Watch The Tribune Columns for another Arden Park
FosN Blvd story It's hot one
cn YOU feature smart sophisticated. HARRIET ROB
the Tribune staff being concpied in small off
c-lsafcH-path town like Xena Ohio
Ihf Midas Leveies of West Kirby are irving If
cffef again The couple rates tops dressers He uses
81, and she. Harpers Bazaar as their fashion bibles
mere is only one spot in the valley hat umps with
ment now rs Dctroit's finest Theatre Bar the
Owens formerly the b & CO at Beacon and &
r'et ne floor show includes Baby Ruthic Grace AL
parncc Stevenson Ruby Logan (and she's good oo)
frd G'orrc Dawson's ChocoIeteers
w know Young man-about-town who is Going 70
lafa al 4 ne doesn't straghten up and fly right
'afN ifrown Norman former member Of the line
~ 'iub Plantation. came out with the Sun last
IN haven't seen her in several months and She told
t ha nc home girl now and only drops in on the
W. 70 rs once IN while She looked blond and lovely
N ever Old us that her little daughter is Young LADY
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-06-02

Thu colorcd blleiacke't mat
son hear over your radio Cery
SATURDAY, night ove CPS and
tvIR, coming from Cleai Lake>
Ilhnois ia go0-foice resinents
Choir msrtial mVsi hy mill
iary band tunes old ana nee,
presented in novel srrareeuee'.
by me octe' ans qlariet fhf
scnr ron heard them sirS ems
riflsd We arc Non N M
Nay and Hen Hen ves
composed AZ ne crea' Lakes
framing Center The entire pro.
gram Is written produced sna
presented ny coiored personnel.
TIE program il heard over 81
SATURDAYS ~ - pm
Freeman Gosaeu and Charles
correll Stars o. me Amos An
dv show will c'ose their ration
season June ! 'ou weeks ahead
~ schedule LEAVING imneaiaf4Is
Or t'sO overseas entertainments
tour They viii return 70 NBc
IN October
u YOU heard me sound ~
Gun on ka'e smiths program
iast sunday during me broad
cas- II her CHS ,arie' program
here's ehaf happened A euc
hal heen nsed during ins Jackie
kelS skii and me sound ~
fleets man was packing II auay
When " went or Kais MS
sinTins Just A PRAYER Apayr
az me time
Won ~lil remember SON. week
aac AZ rrn'h or Consequences
Ram Edwards asked he listen