The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-09-07
SOME QUESTION ABOUT THE
NEW PLAN
nv Il r. Jones

WdSuiuSLOH, IL. u, september J.
There is quite stir in Washington
over President Humans recomme H..
dation to continue the draft of young
men, and some of the leaders in the
Legislative branch of Government
have disagreed, and declared that in
asmuch as the war has ended that
drafts should be ended Ever SIM,
Mr.. Truman took office, practically
all Washington commentators, col
respondents ami writer's have approx
edsall of his acts and proposals. The
very person WHO is writing this al
ticle has been one of "yes, me too
boys. But your correspondent cannot
go along with the Administration, o.
anyone else on this proposal, becaus,
he is convinced that the existing ar
mics contain plenty of men who ar,
ready to volunteer to re-enlist, and
maintain full strength of the armed
forces. That seems entirely reason
able, because no matter what mel
of them become attached to their job
whether it is working on the rail
road, or the highway, or in the Uni
ted States Army or Navy.
Every day one reads in the new.
of the return of discharged servic.
men. Five or six million are to o.;
sent home. Welcome, heroes!
This correspondent has been Or
thodox in believing that the ARM
and Navy should make their owl
rules. Anyhow, it seems almost like
tragedy to upset the lives of oul
young boys and men by drafting
them for guard duty in Europe or the
Pacific areas, where there are nc
Nazis or Japs to be afraid of.
If all these young men are to be
drafted, we must acknowledge that
we are in about the same predica-
ment at Napoleon 142 years ago,
when he complained, What beau
tiful fix we are in now; peace has
been declared"
Let's Try Collective Bargaining
The Tabor question" moved along
rather smoothly in the olden days be-
fore it came to be used as a political
force. 1t was then that the people OF
our country realized that capital and
labor had come to grips in a great
struggle for control of hours and
wages.
Turn back to the sit-down strikes
nd xxyin ,,I yIa%
| amounts to an index of Labor Rela-
tons for the past decade. In those
times the President of the United
States and the Congress devised and
passed legislation to regulate EN-
ployers and workers. During the fol-
lowing years the strait jacket tight
ened around both labor and capital.
Despite all of the methods employed
for the control of employers and
workers the situation continued to
grow worse and worse up to the be-
ginning of the wars.
Throughout our own count y
workers organizations came face to
face with increasingly complex prob
lens, and unrest among the rank
and file grew, as old systems and
practices were revised and revamped
at Washington. Collective bargaining
failed to work, and even the wartime
mo Strike Agreement" somersaulted
into terrific conflicts in 1943. It's
time to cut out all this rough stuff
in employer-worker affairs. Collec-
tive bargaining may be the answer.
Let's TRY 1T, for change.
y %#
Spiking The Clock
Some people like so-called daylight
saving time. A lot more people think
that pushing the hands around
makes it easier to get up an hour
earlier and go to bed with the chick
ems. Personally, your Washington
correspondent commends President
Truman for putting the nation back
on regular clock time. That's where
it SHOULD stay for time eternity
even if it does cause eruption in a
lot of families. The war ends and the
more freak notions that go with it
the better.
Trucks AllOcated To Farm Areas
The United States Government has
just issued special orders allocating
1850 trucks to farm areas in Cali
fornia, Texas, Washington, Oregon,
Montana and Idaho, in order to off,
set threatened impairment of farm
production due to shortages of rail-
transportation and automotive faci-
lities.
See Your Banker, First
Ten thousand private financial in
situations in every mart of the IInited