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Evening star., 1945-06-10
Fimdimg Our Way
By the ReU. Reno S. Harp, jr.,
Rector OF Trinity Episcopal Church.

Gods ways, they must be diligent in
their search. Worship is one way of
finding. Multitudes do not worship
God today, and there is much pain
and suffering among us. The casual
relation between those two facts
must be pondered. In ignorance of
His will, man follows either his own
will or that of other men. And the
result through history as it is today
has been descent into hell.
An understanding of the divine
will comes through worship and also
from the Bible Here is an mex
haustible source of insight for those
who seek enlightenment as to the
ways of God. Further, Gods spirit is
In this world to guide us into the
truth. The method of availing our
selves OF the Spirits guidance was
stated clearly and simply: ASK, and
1t shall be given you; seek, and We
shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you"
For many persons the problem is
not the discerning of Gods will but
the courage to do it. knowledge is
not enough. You may know the way
to your friends house, but unless
you walk that way you will not ar
rive there. The doing brings the
promised reward. Conflicts which
tear us apart as individuals-the
wars which bring their damnation
upon earth-can be ended, if we
know and do His will, for in His will
is our peace.
Knowledge we ask not, knowledge
Thou hast lent,
But, Lord, the will, there lies our
bitter need,
Give us to build, above the deep
intent
The deed, the deed.
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Old Water Trouqhs

lime was, a generation and more
ago, when the old watering trough
was familiar part of the scene.
Made of limestone, granite or long
lasting two-inch oak planks, they
stood at the edge of town squares
and village commons. Sometimes
they were placed beside country
roads, where a nearby spring fur
nished ready source of supply.
Probably the most common type
was the wooden trough. Made of
well-dried, heavy planks. the water
swelled the wood and guaranteed a
leakless trough. From spring until
freeze-up time there was muddy
spot before the free-drink counter,
for when the farmers horses
plunged their heads into the cool
ness they splashed water over the
sides. The farmers liked the muddy
area-good for the horses hooves in
dry, hot weather. In winter the
frozen, rutty spot was a mass of icy
curlicues, and frozen white lace
trimmed the trough.
The box was stained and dark on
the outside. Inside was fascinat-
ing world, and many a man living
in the big city can recall when he
pressed his face into the icy-cold
springfield water and looked at the
marine display. Green moss covered
the sides, and slender waving ten
drills moved gently back and forth.
On the bottom, inches deep with
grayish, Shiny looking sediment,
were myriad miniature hills and val
leys, volcanoes and canyons. Usually
small boys added frogs, snails, tur-
ties, colored pebbles and white
stones to the wood d-bounded water
bottom. It was not an unknown oc-
currence for lads to contribute
water snake or eel Now that trans
portation is largely powered by gas
oline instead of water, the old,
weather-beaten, wooden troughs
have largely disappeared. Some of
the stone and flossily trimmed metal
ones remain. Progress is inevitable
and generally for the best. But the
occasional wooden watering troughs
on back-country roads are a pleas
ant reminder of days when life was
uncomplicated by robot bombs and
ration books.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
The Gap

The Public Opinion Quarterly for
the Spring of 1945 contains a dis
cussion of a condition which the
author, DR.. Donald M. Dozer, now a
member of the staff of the State
Department, calls the wide dichot-
only" between the Government
and the people of the United States.
His S64 word thus brought into the
minds Of readers is of Greek origin
and means cut asunder" or. in
simpler form as a noun. "a gap"
Of course, DR.. Dozer does not desire
anybody to imagine that he believes
American Presidents or Congresses
to have 'customarily, regularly, de-
l1berately or even necessarily
acted in open disregard" of what
they knew the citizens of the Nation
wanted
Yet the gap" exists and, in DR..
Dozer's judgment, is growing wider
from day to day. I'm general, and
increasingly SO in the past three
quarters of century" he insists,
the American people have felt no
all-engrossing sense of Identification
with their Government" Nor is the
divergence mere philosophic differ
ence. DR.. Dozer specifies:
They believe that government can
not be trusted to serve them faith
fully or efficiently and they will
submit to governmental controls only
when they are forced to do so by
coercive authority or by the over
whelming and manifest compulsion
Of national emergency. They object
not to the supremacy Of Congress
nor to the supremacy of the Execu-
tive nor to the supremacy of the
States but rather to the supremacy
of government as such.
This "feudal condition." as DR..
Dozer sees it, traces back to ''the
power of corporate monopoly" after
the Civil War. Business entities"
caused it, and they should be
"abridged.' The gap however,
would remain unless "the bureauc-
racK should be made more re-
spol>sive to the public will" DR..
Dozer calls for mot so much the
ablest men as the men who have
the public welfare deeply at heart" ="
All the executive agencies of the
National Government, he argues,
should be rendered continuously
responsible to Congress-not simply
subject to occasional Spot-checks
when appropriations are pending.
This requires actual management of
these agencies by Congress as
whole or by congressional commit
tees and agents"
But even were the reform so
phrased to be accomplished the
gap still would not be closed. DR..
-Dozer contends for an effective
Solidarity between people and gov
ernment." He quotes Thomas Jeffer-
son: Where every man is sharer
in the direction of his ward
republic, or of some of the higher
ones, and feels that he is a partici-
pator in the government of affairs,
not merely at an election one day
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turned to the city after an absence
antedating the sad death of Secretary
Gresham. He spent the day at the
State Department arranging the private
papers and effects of the late Secretary
for removal to Chicago, where Mrs.
Gresham will make her future home.
Mr.. Lands will remain on duty until the
vacancy in the head of the State De-
partment is filled, when he will resign
his Office for the purpose of resuming
the practice of his profession-the law
in Chicago. He entered the Government
service only because of his admiration
for Gen. Gresham and is not likely
to remain there of choice" For the
later portions of his career, glance at
Who's Who will suffice Mr. Lands was
United States district judge in Illinois
from 1905 to 1922. then baseball COM
missioner until his death November IS,
1914
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capped by Near and Middle Eastern

capped by Near and Middle Eastern
turmoil.
The idea behind De Gaulle's pro-
posal is obvious. 1t Is to draw a red
herring across the trail blazed by his
own inept conduct. thereby saving
his damaged diplomatic face" and
confounding the real issue by a gen.
eral muddying of the political wa
ters. This troubled postwar world of
ours has something better to do than
extricating the general from his own
mess at such cost.
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Koreu's Future


Russians may enter the Pacific war
has been productive of many ru-
mors, not the least of them being
that at the Roosevelt Churchill
Stain meeting at Yalta it was
agreed that the Soviet Union should
obtain Korea in return for action
against the japanese. Acting Sec
retary of State Grew now fatty de-
MES that any such understanding
exists, and he reaffirmS, on the basis
of the Cairo declaration, our Amer
ican commitment to the idea of
eventual independence for the
Koreans.
This commitment was made in De-
cember, 1943, when President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister Churchill
conferred with Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek at Cairo, where
the three jointly declared that the
United States, Britain and China,
mindful of the enslavement of the
people of Korea, are determined that
in due course Korea shall become
free and independent The phrase
lin due course" is an important
qualification, but it affects only the
timing of the event and not the
principle. An agreement with Rus
sia to the contrary would so clearly
violate this pledge and would be so
difficult to justify that the rumor
denied by Mr.. Grew seems far
fetched on its face.
1t is not hard to understand, how
ever, why the Cairo declaration en-
ployed the phrase ''in due course"
There is Korean provisional gov
ernment in Chungking, but, as Mr..
Grew points out, it has never exer-
ciSed authority over any part of
Korea, cannot be regarded as rep
resentative of the Korean people
and does not command united sup
port even among eXiled Koreans.
Korea itself has been pretty much
closed to the world ever since it
passed under the domination of
Japan early in the century, and it's
internal political neutrality-suspicious.
larly in the last decade or so-has
been largely an unknown quantity.
But there can be no doubt about
the Koreans claim to independence
and their ability to rule themselves.
Numbering well over 81 100000, they
are a homogeneous people distinct
from the Chinese and japanese, and
the history of their peninsular coun-
try-86,000 square miles in area,
stretching southwark from Man
churia-dates back to ancient times.
Their feelings toward the Empire of
the Rising Sun are bitter. In 1919,
in their capital, they staged an un-
armed revolt, and Tokyo's reaction
to this was to torture thousands of
them. And few years later, at the
time of the great earthquake, a
movement was started to kill all of
them in Japan, and more than 5000
were slaughtered in the Tokyo area
alone.
With centuries of history behind
them and with japanese oppression
weighing them down, they are as
eager as any of the worlds peoples
for liberation and self-rule Mr..
Crews reaffirmation of Americas
support for their independence will
be cheering to them, as it should be
TO all who believe that every coun-
try has a natural right to govern
itself when it is able to do so.
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in the year, but every day; when
there shall not be man in the State
who will not be member of some
one of its councils, great or small,
he will let the heart be torn out of
his body sooner than his power be
wrested from him by a Caesar or
a Bonaparte."
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to survive those temporary disappoint-
ments that exasperate the impatient
and frighten the faint of heart. Other
wise, If the cynics and defeatists have
their way, the world is likely to suffer
cataclysm beyond compare two or
three decades from now.
Evening star., 1945-06-10

Seeing the dome of the Capitol
lighted again must remind at least
a few people of the time, not so very
long ago, when there really was dan
ger that all Washington might be
laid in ruins by the same ruthless
enemy that wrecked Rotterdam and
Coventry.
Evening star., 1945-06-10

1t might not be a bad idea to let
the recently revealed air raid shell
ter in the White House remain after
victory as convenient refuge for
our Presidents when besieged by
Office seekers.
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Change Of Tense

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
After June 80, unless Ford, Kaiser,
Wallace or some other Henry steps in.
1t will be Willow Ran.
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inter-Allied pickering and use them to
discredit the whole idea of international
collaboration. 1t is the picture to be
kept in mind when the perfectionists
and defeatists wall that everything now
being done is being done in vain be-
cause it is being done short of the
ideal. This is the picture that helps
explain why stumbling and some meas
ure OF acrimony are virtually inescapa-
BILE, the more so because the major part
of the peace making task falls to three
powers who are war-fatigued and Who
Communist Russia on one hand and
capitalistic Britain and America on the
other-subscribe to different ideologies
and must still feel their way, more or
less, toward mutual trust and conf
dence.
What Hayes wrote of the post-1ol8
situation applies with even more force
to the situation today: For at least
generation, the world will be laboring to
throw off the inherited incubus of ter
rorism and violence. In all countries,
particularly in those which have suf-
fered most in the Great War; a high
degree of character, intelligence and
self-restraint will be required of the
whole citizenry." The peace will be a
long time in the making. Men and
nations will have to work hard at it, 1t
will require mutual understanding, a
spirit Of compromise and a host OF
good minds. And it will have to be nur-
tured by faith and hope strong enough
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
TO YOU WHO FEAR THE FUTURE

Predictions and fears of another unemployment crisis even before
Japan falls continue to mount.
Paul V. McNutt, our free enterprise" SYSTEMS manpower com
missioner, recently made the disturbing prediction that two million
workers will be out of jobs early in August. Other prcphesies have
placed the number of unemployed at as high as 100000.
What's the matter? Why should people fear that they will. not have
a chance to work? What is there to this thing called work" that makes
to do it?
our way of doing things when most people can feel safe only when
there is war. and destruction e. when they fear the return of peace
and production as a time of evil?
What is wrong is the purpose for which men work. Today they
labor only for the benefit of an owning class When it suits the owners
to permit people to produce, then production proceeds. When it doesn't
suit the owners purposes people are discarded. That is the way and
the purpose of capitalism.
There would be no such thing IS unemployment if human vel
fare was the purpose of work. Then the help of everybody would be
welcomed. Then the ability to produce abundance would result in
plenty for all and increased leisure for all.
That is what Socialists are striving for-an economy whose pm-
pose will be to produce for the use of the people rather than for the
profits of a privileged class. Nowhere has Socialism a better chance
succeed than in the United States of America - where boundless
natural resources and marvellous machinery make plenty for all pos
sible. Never was there a better chance to have prosperity than there
will be after the war ends-When men can return from conflict to CO.
operation and when the labor of all can be Ightened by the help of
millions of young people who now are soldiers.
The threat of unemployment after war ends is enough to condemn
prediction is an insult to the working people because it tells them
that they are only to be used-or scrapped-as others may decide.
There is only one verdict that intelligent workers can render
against the system of private profits; only answer they can make
to McNutt. The verdict is that the nation and the fullness thereof are
the property of the people who inhabit it The answer is that, having
saved the nation in war, we will use it in peace to produce abundance
and security for al-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
PAGING DR.. FlSHBE!N

DR.. Ernst P. Boas is a distin-
guished New York physician. Son
of the famous anthropologist,
Franz Boas, he is an acknowledged
authority on diseases of the heart
=" a member of the Columbia
University faculty.
,,4.eIl Dr. Boas charges that free
'jscussion of national health in
franc has been suppressed in the
MEDICAL press, his words cannot be
tghtly brushed off.
AS chairman of the Physicians
'orum, DR.. Boas is a supporter of
g" Wagner-Dingell bill for ma
tional health insurance. The Amer
lean Medical Association, under
the domination Of DR.. Morris Fish
bein, opposes this bill, and certain
medical groups with unofficial A.
M. A. backing have resorted to
shameful tactics of distortion and
deceit in fighting it. Now DR.. Boas
declares that only the opponents
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
SWEDEN FORMS NEW
SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT

STOCKHOLM. - A new so
cialist government for Sweden has
been announced by King Gustav
with Albin Hanson as premier
and Oesten linden as foreign min
lister.
The announcement was made
almost Immediately after the dis
solution of the Swedish coalition
government, formed five and q
half years ago. Hanson was prime
minister in the coalition.
The Swedish government had
continued after the elections of
lower chamber members in 1914
altho these resulted in appreciable
changes in the strength of the par
ties. These elections gave the So
cial Democrats exactly half the
seats in the second chamber, the
other lis being shared by the Con
servatives, 80 seats; Farmer, SO,
Peoples Party, rs, and Commun-
ist, Is.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08

m~onarchist. At present, public hos
tlIlty appears to be focused on the
KING personally, because of the
dIctat0rial tendencies he showed
before the war and the defeatist
attitude he took after the Nazi in
Vaslon. The government proposes
hat he should abdicate in favor of
ms eldest son, Prince Baudoin,
with Prince Charles continuing as
Regent until the boy reaches his
eighteenth birthday in 1948. How
ever, Leopold's decision to force
a political campaign on the con-
stitutional issue may, raise the
whole question of the monarchy's
future. By his stubborn resistance
to demands for his abdication
Leopold may be risking his dy-
nasty.-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
CONGRESS COMES HOME

congress is taking a long summer vacation, leaving much of its
most important business unfinished.
Before adjourning, it has rushed through a bill to give profit
takers five billion dollars in direct tax relief, to Improve the cash
position of business enterprises"
VINE ChS N every other possible measure has been passed to
pfotect TN interests of the weIltOdO, Congress has shown no similar
concern for the "cash position" of American working people.
II la falled to provide any emergency relief for laid-off war
workers and those who find their takehome pay sharply cut by loss
OF overtime, transfers, downgrading, etc.
IL las also tailed to act on pending measures for expanded social
ecurlty' nl employment and elimination of substandard wages.
Inc return home o your Congressional representatives furnishes
an excellent opportunity to impress IN them the popular demand for
adoption of measures like these-to encourage the progressives who
have put up a good fight, and to show the lukewarm and reactionarv
That the voters have their eyes n them.
ASK your representatives particularly what they have done and
propose TO 10 about the Kngore-Forand bill for S25 a week for "a
weeks 1or lalo-otf val workers; about the Congressional petition to
oreak mrough tn Little Steel wage freeze; about the bill to raise
wages to at least Csc IN hour; about the Murray Wagner.
Dngel bill fol more adequate social security; about the Murray-Pat-
man III Employment bill; about a permanent FEPC: and about the
Wco BaABurton-Hatch bill that would destroy the rights of labor
unions.
about Congressional measure like these. Don't fail to let them know.
The CO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
PENSIONS reflect
WARS SIZE

In case there was any doubt as
to the size of this war compared
to any that America has been in
previously, a brief examination of
the Veterans Administration pen
sion rolls as of the end of May
the most recent figure available
should be good prove.
With World War II not yet over,
there are noW nearly as many vet
Grams and widows of servicemen
On the pension and compensation
rolls as those of World War l. At
present the total for World War II
is only 1000 less than the number
for World War l. And whereas the
number of pensioners from all
other American wars will decrease,
the number from this war will con-
tinue to grow.
CuriouSly enough, there is still
n person receiving a pension as
a result Of the War of 1912. The
Veterans Administration doesn't
identify the recipient. From the
Indian Wars, 1,13O veterans and
2,685 widows still are receiving
pensions.
The pensions of the Civil War
are rapidly decreasing, with only
239 still on the rolls. But there
are 24,744 Civil War widows re-
ceiving government pensions.
The war with Spain brought a
large group to the pension lists.
From that wal 127,7O3 veterans
and 72,503 widows are drawing
money. The Mexican border war.
On the other hand, came later, but
did not involve as many America
troops, But we are still paying So
widows a pension as a result of
that fiasco.
World War l, of course, has the
biggest number outside of this
a AS of May 81, 332,811 World
War l veterans were receiving
compensation and 89,654 more
were receiving a pension. At the
same time 108,831 widows are re-
ceiving compensation and 127,219
were receiving pensions.
So far in this war, 400 ,619 vet
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
British Labor Wins
With Socialist PROGRAM

In a landslide Labor Party victory, the British people have re-
Jected the principle of free enterprise for private profit and given
the go-ahead signal for naturalization of basic industries of the nation
including the Bank of England. The vote gave a parliamentary major
iy to Labor OF 2 to /.
Victory for Socialism
AS one radio announcer exclaimed in announcing results, "Ths
means a Socialist Britain :"
throughout tn campaign, which wa O the most bitter in the
impress history, the issue a never in doubt. The Churchill forces
campaigned ON the preservation of Gree enterprise" Labor, met the
ISSUE by coming ut boldly for the naturalization of basic industries
including fuel and power, inland transport, iron and steel and the
Bank Of England.
That the British voters were not seeking half-w measures and
Were IN no mood to compromise was shown by the defeat Of Sir Will
liam BeVerdge, author of the plan for social security which bears
his name. ~
Eyes o n United States
with the British swing to the left, and with all of continental
Europe moving in the same direction, attention is focused o the
united States "a tn only important nation in the world that still holds
last to a policy of capitalist free enterprise"
Just what policy the politicians Of American capitalism will take
uoWard britain IN tn months that lie Immediately ahead is a question
upon which will depend many important developments.
Ii American help is withdrawn from Britain at this time Or at n
t"e IN n future, n result may be to swing the Empire into the
SOVIET orbit and increase the growing power of Communist Russia in
bth Europe and Asia. Also, if America holds fast to "freee nterprisen
pohcIcS this nation will stand in the way of progress and be byanac Il
as the cause of World War III when and if another war pIagues
the world. fS
unfortunately, the people of Britain waited until their economy
vas weakened ahd their nation devasted by war before taking so de-
zoe a step IS voting for Socialist policies. It will be even more m
fortunate if the people of the United States wait until capita1iH- horn
calamity equally great strikes before falling in step with the march of
Britain toward democratic Socialism.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-08-08
OUT OF II BAG

Sen. Wheeler 3D., Mont.) in pro
missing a fight on use of u. S.
armed force to help keep the peace
has let the cat out of the isola-
ZIONIST bag in the United Nations
charter vote.
Wheeler took the tip from Her
bert Hoover's testimony last week,
when he demanded that Congress
have veto power over everything
effective that the U. S. Delegate
to UNO might do.
This is the complete negation of
real u. S. participation in the
United Nations. Hoover and
Wheeler and all the rest-includ-
ing many who are going along on
the vote for the charter-know
this.
The opposition to United Ma
tons unity has not disappeared.
Like the Nazi werewoIves, its gone
underground.