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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
ARMY RELEASES BIG
HOARD A BUTTER

The War Department announces
that it has released as surplus
$4,000, 900 pounds of butter, about
III pounds for every man, woman
and child in the nation.
Whether the butter is fit to eat
remains to be determined. The De-
partment of Agriculture said it has
to be inspected, and that this will
require about a month. Butter fit
to use will reach consumers about
Christmas.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
BLESSING!

Stomach ulcers, the bane of mil
lions of Americans, is about to be
mastered, if reliance can be placed
in an announcement by the New
York University College of Medi-
cine.
1t declared that DR.. Co TUT,
Chinese scientist, har discovered
that feeding with a predigested
protein made the severest ulcers
disappear in a week or two.
The discovery was made, it was
said, when patients were being
prepared for operations for stomach
ulcers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
By FRANK GROSER

One of the things I was always
interested in during my stay in the
ETC was to meet up with any
SloVenes if they were around.
While | was in the Infantry those
opportunities we're few as we never
stayed in anyone place very long
and by the time l found out where
these fellows were, we would move
out. The latter part of April l was
transferred to the Transportation
Corps. (rear echelon) and had the
opportunity to stay in one place
for awhile. l was stationed at AaIen
for awhile, but by the time l got
there the Slovenes were moved
out as they were always fighting
with the Serbs. 1t seems that the
Military Government always put
some officer in charge of D. P.
displaced P%ersons) and the only
Jugoslav officers over here seemed
to be the Serbs who we're captured
by the Allies while fighting with
the Germans. And since the Slo-
finally had some freedom
they bitterly protested having to
take orders from the Serbs who
fought with the Germans and now
were bossing the Slovenes who
were brought here as slave labor.
So the best thing the M. c.. could
do was to separate them.
| " came in contact with
any SlOvenes until l was stationed
in BruChSal. Then, thru some Rus
sian D. P. l learned that some
Slovenes were in a small town
Z miles away so l visited them.
There were two brothers and sis
tiers living together, named Pirc.
They were brought there with their
aged mother, father, another broth
er and sister and all the SloVenes
of their community and placed to
work on the farms, factories and
homes. The brothers and sisters
were placed in this small town to
work in a noodle factory. "They
were given three rooms and be-
cause their boss was a little lenient,
they Jared lot better than most
of their friends. He gave them
things not allowed in their rations.
Of course they had to pay for it,
but money didn't mean anything
to them, as they had lost every
thing else.
Not long after they were brought
here the aged father became i'll
and missed work quite frequently
SO he was taken to the hospital for
observation. The next day the fam
lily was called in to take his dead
body for burial. In Germany if you
didn't work you didn't eat. At least
he didn't suffer a long period of
starvation.
A brother and sister of the Pirc
family were sent to, another town
about 100 miles away, and they
hadn't see each other in three
years. Although up to a year ago
they were allowed to write to one
another. The reason / write so
much about this family is because
In the six weeks that I was in Bru-
schal became very close friend
with them and the two fellows,
Paul and Stanley they we're al
ways with me, SO l heard a lot of
their experiences.
The four worked in the noodle
factory for $40 a month and out of
! each ones salary came $1.50 for
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
WITH sLOVENE D. P.,s IN GERMANY

hospital fund, 25c for some kind
Of union dues, 40c for tax for being
single, 35c for income tax, So for
rent, SOC for light and Csc for
water. That left $4.7O for their
food and whatever else was needed
Of what they could buy. Of curse
the cost of living was very cheap
and there was little they were al
lowed to buy, but as everywhere
here in Germany there was the
black market and if they wanted
anything that they weren't allowed
to buy, they could get it at a much
higher price on the black market.
The families that had children
had to send them to German
schools if they were not old enough
to work. No n was allowed to
speak anything but German. The
children also had to join the Hit
lerS youth organizations. Since the
ares around here was mainly far
ming and small communities the
D. P.'S here didn't suffer too badly,
except the French, Russians and
the Poles who had to work in the
factories, where most of them
didn't receive any pay and the food
was very bad.
After this territory was freed by
the French they took everything
away from the Germans and gave
it to the D. P.'s. This included ra-
dos, bicycles, cloths, food and
smokes. So all except the last few
days of my stay there, that terri
tory was under French and the
people lived in homes, barracks,
schools or any place that was half
way decent. They all had their
own gardens. Although they didn't
get much help from the French
they had some freedom and the
Germans were afraid Of them.
After three weeks 1 returned to
visit them and the good Americans
had moved them all into a Monas-
stery, with all the other D. P.'s,
where they were crowded like rats.
two and three families to a room.
The Americans took away every
thing they had for which they
couldn't show receipts, so most OF
them had to give up their bicycles
and radios etc. Rules on passes be-
came stricter and the Germans
were again able to walk proudly
down the street and not have tc
get out of the way for an "aus-
lander. All the Nazi, or a large
part of them, whom the French
had jailed were again walking the
streets with police armbands and
smoking American cigarettes. Sc
from all I'd seen and heard over
here, L agree with eX-Sec. of Treas
MOrgenthau's version that the
policing of Germany should be
turned over to the Europeans who
suffered under the Germans (not
only under Hitler) and let the soft
hearted Yanks return home.
(Continued.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
Public's Rights in Airwuves at Stake

The Federal Communications Commission announces it will begin
granting licenses for Frequency modulaion," a improved method of
broadcastng, Nov. T.
A great majority of the applicants who will receive consideration
are those who now control standard broadcastng, including the nations
largest newspapers and newspaper chains.
If the commission runs true to form, the licenses will be parceled
out with little regard for the public interest. Since its inception, back
in the Coolidge administration, a majority of the members of the COM
mission have shown more concern for those who control the air than
for the millions who are compelled to listen to the dreary bilge that
comes out of their receiving sets.
When Congress passed the Communications Act of 1894 it speci-
fically provided that the air waves belong to the people and that radio
stations should be operated only for the public interest, convenience
and necessity"
The commission is the guardian of the peoples property, and it will
fail to measure up to its obligation and its responsibility if it continues
radio in hands which are interested only in the profits they a wiring
from commerciaIsm of the ether-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
The Choice Between two Forms of Socialism
HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

For a number Of years, now, |
have been warning those people
who took the trouble to read that
the choice before them was be
tween two forms of specialization.
/. There was the possibility Of
sOCializing THINGS-the natural
resources and industries of the ma
tiOn-by and for the use of the
people.
2. There was the alternative OF
SOcializing things and PEOPLE
by and for the benefit of a super
class.
| did not believe it was possible
to avoid making a choice between
these two courses, and | don't be-
lieve it now. The general pattern
Of humanity's institutions is de-
termlned by economic develop
ment, The details r etched into
the pattern by the intelligent &C
ton or lack of it - of the peo-
pie themselves.
So it was that I V lost con-
fldence that free enterprise would
be replaced by social controls.
And SO, too, | was satisfied that
such controls would be authorita-
rlan in character unless the peo-
pie themselves organized and act
ed to make them democratic.
Moreover, l never entertained
the belief that social change would
wait until the people were ready
for it. And SO it was that l insisted
that NOW is the time for decision.
Well, the people haven't made
the choice, but President Harry S.
Truman and the economic group
whose advice he takes and whose
interests he serves are taking the
next step.
Those who are making the poll
cIes for all of us are now offering
a program of universal compulsory
military training hat enables the
government to SOcialize the Ameri-
can people when they are young
and to hold them tightly in the
clutches of a super-claSs govern.
ment throughout their entire lives
Truman says his plan is not con.
Scription," but civilians in train
ing" The Philadelphia Record. :
Democratic partisan publication
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
NO WAR ~BILLIONAIRES?

The number of billion-dollar cor
porations has jumped from 80 to 43
in the course of the war, a 35 per
cent increase, according to a United
Press survey made public August
26.
The total assets of these 43 cor
porations have jumped 10 percent
in the year 1914 alone-from SOL
1876, 780,417 to $500, 959, 1872, 1862.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
ODDS AND ENDS

The present labor unrest is
based on the inclination of the
workers to get the same take-home
pay as they had during the war.
They point out that they have to
pay as much as ever for take-home
groceries.-Howard Brubal5er in
The New Yorker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
THE LITTLE WOMAN

A woman when launching her
first ship was a little nervous. She
turned to the shipyard manager
standing beside her, and asked:
How hard do I have to hit it to
knock it into the Water?"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07
THE NEWES

"Ha, hal" laughed the recruit.
You can't fool me. l know they've
got potato-peeling machines in this
army"
Eyes, smart chap" replied the
sergeant, and you're the latest
model"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

Compositions of Brahms, Beeth-
wen and Schubert rank ahead of
boogy-Woogy 1--WE tunes, which GIs
in the Southwest Pacific requested
a USO-Camp Shows unit to play
during a recent tour, says the Ma
tional War Fund which finances
USO.
l had no shoes and complained
until l met a man who had no feet.
Arabian proverb.
The important Admiral and the
General who was in love with him
self were stranded on a jungle is
land. But they found a rowboat.
Il have a confession to make" said
the Admiral. Il don't know how
to row a boat" That's all right"
said the General who loved him
self. II won't tell anyone, if you
won't tell anyone my secret: Il
can't walk on water John Paine.
u :: *
About the only thing that comes
to he who waits is Whiskers.
y s. E"
A woman is a person who can
hurry through a drugstore aisle 10
inches wide without brushing
against piled up tinware and then
drive home and knock the doors
off a 12-foot garage.-Safety News.
= i =
Cynic: A person who believes
other people are as bad as he is.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

A mother is a person who sees
there + only four pieces of pie
for five people and says she doesn't
r for pie.-Anon.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

Utopia; A land where nobody
tries to reform his n%eighbors until
his own section is free of faults.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

Better be three hours too soon
than one minute too late.--Shakes-
peare.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

favors the program advocated but
asserts that Truman is playing
with words to kid the public"
Call it what you like-"conscrip-
tiOn," training" RECOMMENDATION"
- the adoption Of the Truman pro-
gram will be the kind of socializa-
ton that is bound to become the
way of live if the common people
- the workers themselves-com-
promise with class exploitation and
refrain from establishing the So
cialist program for socializing
things.
Speaking to workers, as we al
ways do, what we especially want
TO stress is the fact that THEIR e
lection Of Socialism down through
the present century gives a per-
feet justification to those who now
propose to socialize people under
the controls of what quickly must
become a super state that functions
on class lines.
For the economy of free enter
prise is at last at an end. Capital
lists can no longer exploit any
thing near like all available work.
erS and at the same time find pro-
fitable markets in an economy that
IS free and competitive.
An so the government MUST
control and regulate the economy
- and YOU, workers, being the
most numerous, the most trouble
some and the most menacing ele-
ment within the class society that
capitalism has developed, must be
the first to be socialized. Other
wise class privilege could not con-
tinue.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-07

l had no shoes and complained
until l met a man who had no feet.
Arabian proVerb.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Americas No. l
War Producer

~ -
lhere are millions Of him. ~
The Top Produces in this war is the
American Dairy Farmer. >s'- Z
With the manpower shortage and less
equipment, this man has produced 1875
more milk. This man has kept right on
producing g-5o-6o-7o-so hours per
week-aetualy 5o% more output per man!
The Farmer has kept right on pro.
ducing BY himself because America needs
milk and butter and cheese. Because he
knows 398 of the total food consumed
by the armed forces comes from the
COW. Milk and butter are VitaH
Yet, America today is falling to recog.
nize the Dairy Industry as No. vital
war plant-in Manpower-or Prices.
Actually-the Dairy Farmer loses
money today when he produces butter.
We need a new parity formula for the
Dairy Farmer. Our present parity for.
mula is antique. 1t does not even include
the cost of labor-the biggest cost item
to Dairy Farmer.
Evening star., 1945-02-15

Cows need milking twice day. No
Sundays off. No holidays. Who says
labor isn't important?
Who says labor doesn't cost money?
Labor is the biggest cost item of our
war effort !. and rightly so. Why leave
labor out of the formula that governs
production?
The Dairy Farmer is the No. War
Producer. He has proved it. But his efforts
his labor-need recognition NOW!
This is balancing problem. Govern
ment must decide where to direct men
and money! lfAmerica wants to keep dairy
production bigb-The Dairy Industry
needs higher priority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
New York Election Jockeyng Injection of the Name of Judge Sam Roseman into the Picture Had Politicians in a Dither Until Little David Dubinsky Got
 Busy on the Wire
Busy on the Wire
By DREW PEARSON Author of The Washington Merry Go Round")

New York, N. Y, June 15-Dur- ing the last hours of the hot tug of-war over who would be the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York, the Democrats pulled the name of Judge Sam Rosenman out of the hat.
 This threw a terrific jitter into the Republican Liberal camp. Their coalition, with Judge Jonah A. Goldstein as COP candidate for Mayor, has a real chance of winning. Goldstein is Demo- crat, and running on the Repub- lican ticket would poll not only Republican votes, but a lot of Democrats.
 However, it was feared that Judge Rosenman would take all the Jewish vote away. And Ros- enman, having been one of the closest advisers to Franklin Roosevelt, might also have won many votes away from the Liber- al Party, always staunchly pro- Roosevelt.
 In the middle of these COP Liberal worries that the Demo- crats would nominate Sam Ros- enman, smart little David Du- binsky, head of the International Ladies Garment Workers and chief of the Liberal party, sud- denly slipped out of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Retenene, CryoIite Dust Are Controls For Garden Chewing, Sucking Insects

every 10 days until the pods begin to form, then switch to rotenone. Do not use lead arsenate or paris green on beans, as either of these will injure the vines. Cryolite is likewise recommended for central of cabbage caterpillars, that group of leaf-eating worms who damage cabbage wherever grown, until the heads begin to form; apply TO- tenone after the cabbages begin to head up.
 Mexican bean beetles are copper colored, about one-third inch in length, with Is blacks spot on the wing covers. The larvae are a fuzzy yellow with stout branching spines. Since both the young and adults feed entirely underneath the leaves, it is very necessary to use a sprayer or duster with an upturned nozzle which will apply the material to the lower side of the leaves.
 Rotenone is usually sold in dust form, with a # per cent content, and should be used as dust only. Cryolite may be used as dust or spray, and when used as a spray, one ounce, or eight level teaspoon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

First shipment in years of these famous NUMDAH rugs. In the popular it.
 size, they can be used in sun rooms, living rooms and bed rooms. Woven by native ar- tists high in the Himalaya mountains
 You'll want several at OAn nE this low price ............. @1VsOO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

Despite the big political decisions being made in New York, he dis appeared.
 At first no one knew where he went. But later in the day he turned up in Washington, where he phoned Judge Rosenman to invite him to dinner.
 Actually Dubinsky didn't ex- pect Rosenman would be free for. dinner, but he wanted an excuse to talk to him.
 Have you received any offers?" Dubinsky queried.
 Say" replied Rosenman, "1 may be fool, but I'm not that much of fool.'
 That's all I wanted to know" Said Dubinsky and hung up, sat- isfied that Rosenman would not accept the Democratic nomina- tion for Mayor. Later the Dem ocrats, unable to agree on Rosen- man and unable to draft him, nominated Gen. William O'Dwyer. Note-Capital observers concur that no matter whether Repub- licans or Democrats win the may orally race in New York, the city will have good government. Both tickets are considered ex- cellent.
 Copyright, 1945, by The Bell
 Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
Walter Winche1l
 COnSt-tO-COaSt

FDR dashed upstairs shouting, Johnny, Johnny" Johnny was sleepy and confused by the uproar. He wanted to know what the trouble was. Turn over and go to sleep" Mrs. Roosevelt said firmly and calmly. Its just little bomb!". Ever since then, at moments of ex- treme excitement or uproar in the Roosevelt household. when 8 meas ure of sang-froid is called for, somebody quotes that priceless re- mark: Its just little bomb!"
 Teddy Roosevelt informed biog- rapher that he learned great les son in the art of diplomacy from an Indian chief While touring the west, Teddy met an Indian who had six wives Roosevelt suggested that he choose one and discard the other five . After thoughtful con- sideration, the chiefain agreed-on one condition. You choose the one for me to keep" he replied, "and then you tell the other five"
 Voltaire was frequently annoyed by admirers who sent him long, dull missives. He always answered such letters this way: Dear Sir, I write to you because I have nothing to do. I conclude because I have nothing to say"
 The owl continues to be jabbed by flapjaws who deprecate the inn portance of propaganda in the cur rent struggle. But the use of propa- ganoa as weapon of war isn't new. Napoleon was as willy propagan- dist as he was militarist |. . During the war in Spain, Bona parte's official editor penned htis communique: 'The emperor with forces much inferior to the enemy inflicted decisive defeat on him" In the margin Napoleon wrote: Idiot! Ineed no glory. I have more than I want already. But I need the enemy to think I have soldiers when have not" .. Strik- ing out the reference to his inferior forces. he wrote: "At the head of forces far superior to those of the enemy, the emperior gained bril- liant victory
 Publisher William Allen Whites career sparkled with gems of wit. He was seldom outpointed in an oral battle He was frequently tWitted about his one-man Chamber of Commerce crusade for his home state of Kansas Before intro ducing White at banquet in Mis- souri, the toastmaster was remind ed of the little girl who was told her family was moving from Mis- souri to Kansas. She went out in the back yard, looked at the sky and said: Goodbye, God. We're moving to Kansas" .. White wait ed for the chuckles to subside, arose and said: That story is true, but the emphasis is wrong. What the little girl really said was: Good! By God, we're moving to KansasI" '" Frances great statesman, Clem- enceau, demanded drastic punish ment for Germany's war criminals after the last war, but he was over ruled by his diplomatic colleagues On diplomat informed Clem- enceau: Your demand to kill so many Germans is murder" The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15
More Graft
 Charges Up
PAGE EIGHT
By ANN HICKS

Washington, June Is - (U.P0 - The Senate War Investigating Con- mittee asked the War Department today to explain charges of fan tastic graft and corruption" in the construction of the Latin-American Highway.
 In addition 1t asked the Justice Department to explain why the FBI had been held of the case for near ly two years. The FBI's excuse, one committee member said sarcastical- ly, was that it happened in Latin America"
 The inquiries were ordered by Committee Chairman James M. Mead, D., N. Y, after the charges were made on the Senate floor by Senator Edward V. Robertson, R., Wyo.
 The story centering about 8 firm which held the governments con- tract to build the highway, was re- plete with instances of exhorbitant charges to the government and mis- use of materials paid for by United States taxpayers.
 There were assertions that the company rented its own bulldozers, tractors and trucks and rates so high that some pieces of equipment were paid for in full every seven months or so. On these fantastic rentals" the firm was said to have made 8 profit of 36 per cent over and above the four per cent fee au- thorized.
 There were complaints that em- ployes of the firm used trucks hired to bring loads of liquor to their saloons, that government property was used to build hacienda and an eight-mile road leading to 1t for a firm foreman.
 The implications of the recital left the Senate gasping. There were demands that all contracts let by the Army in the Alaska Highway, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal projects be "re-examined" in the light of the Latin-American High way case disclosed by Robertson.
 Ferguson demanded that the Jus tice Department be queried.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-15

French statesman looked him straight in the eye and snapped : Killing microbes is also form of murder. But they must be killed in order to cure disease!"
 Newspaperman Horace Greeley wrote many fine things. But his name has always bene linked with the phrase: Go West, young man" .. That one remark has been more widely circulated than anything he penned. But Greeley didn't origin ate it! ;. He used this admonition in N. Y Tribune editorial after reading it in the Terre Haute (Ind.) Express in 1851. When it became popular he tried to give credit to the originator, John Seule, but it was too late.
 You could fill B library with G. B. Shaw squelches. But there have been times when the genius with the-long g-white-beard has been the victim of rapier retort Shaw abhors dinner parties. One time Lady Randolf Churchill invited him to one of them. Shaw wired: T will not come to your dinner party. Why should I break my well known hab- its but trustt hey are not as bad as your manners"