Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-02-16
Whats
New?
By
EdWard Duck
On Leave
With The
Army
HOS EXCITED?

and so are a few other people,
among them Philip Murray,
Walter Reuther, Florida's Sen
'ator Claude Pepper, and
others.
Folks, the fight is here
today's THE day!
While millions of minds are
occupied with the interna-
tional butchery-contest, a pri-
vate war is being fought here
in America-and the people
are being dealt a stunning
blow by the enemy, who is
neither Japanese nor German.
Complacency fills the air.
cry few realize what is hap
pening. The newspapers carry
stories of the Wallace-Jones
dispute, and almost everyone
passes it off as a personality
clash. "
Then there is hubbub
about some kind of a senate
committee rejecting pro-
posal that Henry A. Wallace
be named as the new Secre-
tary of Commerce,
GEORGE BILL
Next, we hear that the
George Bill has received Con-
gressional approval. Few of us
are c qu a n t te d with the
George Bill, however, and If
we were, we would probably
still not realize the far-reach-
ing consequences of this vi
cious piece of legislation.
Forty billion dollars will.
buy a lot of potatoes, and
that's the amount of money
directly involved in just one
phase of the dispute. AS the
saying goes, 1T amt hay!"
If the fe deral lending
agencies are placed under the
control of a man who repre-,
sents monopolistic interests,
the common man won't have
a ghost of a chance of bene-
fitting through these agencies.
1t is not question of Jones
versus Wallace, nor of Jones
versus FDR. The issue is
whether the American people
will enjoy full employment,
improved social security, and
guarantee of economic JUS
tice in the years to come.
A NEW ERA
There's new era for all of
us. We've talked about it for
months, yes, even for years.
We've longed to see the bright
sun shining on happy people
when war and destruction
have ceased. But always the
thought that some loved one
might not return to complete
the setting has spoiled our
dream. And a dream it we'll
may be!
The fact is that unless the
peoples fight is won in Wash
ington-and quickly = glori-
Gus victory will prove to be
an empty shell.
Slogans and noble-sound-
ing speeches are alright in
their place, but unless they
are accompanied by the quail
ity of sincerity, they are quite
akin to treachery.
If Roosevelt and Wallace
are defeated in their attempt
to guarantee security to the
American people, chaos and
strife, poverty and unemploy-
ment, disease and hunger will
be the dessert of those who
are today risking their lives
and living in mud and slime
in order to preserve the
American way of life"
AS for free enterprise, the
small businessman will have
as much opportunity of max
ing out as one-legged
hockey player has of holding
the leagues scoring honors, if
the big boys whom Jesse
Jones and his kind represent
climb into the drivers seat of
our nations postwar economic
wagon.
JOBS?
The plainest way of defin-
ing the issue would be to say
that it is question of
whether there will be sixty
million jobs in this country
after the war, or whether we
revert to the pre-War practice
of Wholesale unemployment.
Then there is the question of
the adequate living wage, the
annual guaranteed yearly in
come, improved social secur-
ity. laws, encouragement of
consumers cooperatives, trip
ling of our foreign trade, and
a lot of other items you don't
see being promoted in the
daily press.
In summing up the situa-
ton, let me say that l speak
the sentiments of many a G. /.
when l say that Henry Wal
lace represents, in our opin-
ion, those beliefs and ideals
for which we think we are
fighting.
His courage and states
manship are a blessing to the
common people of our land.