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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

BUY VICTORY BONDS!
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

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Score by innings:
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Brooklyn 0O0 oil 0f1A-9
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
If WE FIGHT RUSSIA

Ii, a some people including Norman Thomas, fear, veterans of
World War Ii e their sons marching away to fight Russia in World
War III, it will. be because they permitted the politicians of today to set
their feet upon the road that leads to war.
That is the warning we Socialists voiced at the end of World War I
and millions of people Of this and other nations died because we were
ignored.
We just don't believe it will be possible for this nation to hold
fast to the private profit motive much longer without enlaving it's
people at home and running foul of other nations elsewhere in the
world. And 81 we view with grave concern the efforts that n now
being made to enable the profit economy and the class society of CAPT.
taism to patch up it's weak spots.
We suppose it's logical that workers who don't know anything
about tn inns of democratic Socialism to fall" for the Truman offer
of higher wages and to fail to SCI or question where any course of action
ultimately will lead; workers generally live in shortrange situations
However,, unless rank and file Americans do look ahead now, they
are almost certain to be used as pawns in a game of international rela-
honships that will end in another conflict of arms
Our reason for raising the Russian question in this connection is
the hope that the people of America may be persuaded to look further
ahead than the immediate detectives that now confront them. If the
fathers and mothers of this generation can be made to understand that
their children ar likely to reap the harvest that the adults of today
sow, they may be at least a little less likely to be beguiled by those
m1nedla personal lures that a War-breeding capitalist economy
Reading Labor Advocate
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
HUNGARIAN ELECTIONS

The decisive victory in Hungary of the Stockholders Party-it
won 191 seats in Parliament while the Communists won So and the
Social Democrats 55-has been variousy interpreted as a triumph
ot democracy, a protest against Russian domination, and proof that
hungary has gone right But a consideration of the makeup of the
victorious party indicates that such interpretations have only a limited
validity. The Stockholders Party is a catch-al which include 10Th
liberal and conservative elements. 1t thus provides a haven not only
tor reachonaries of the defunct Horthy regime but for the middle-of-
the-roaders who wish to turn neither right nor left. Moreover it is a
"sa1eFp party for peasants who mistrust politics as "the trickery of the
gentlemen" and for agricultural Workers-never organized by the pre-
domlnantly urban left partes-who are still convinced; in spite of the
secret ballot, that their choice will somehow be known to 1.-The author
ties Add to this the fact that all parties had agreed, before the cleo
ton, to the continuance of a coalition which, we may be sure, will con-
tnu to get along with Russia, and it becomes apparent that the victory
of the Stockholders Party was something less than a clearcut indorse-
ment of a specific conservative" program. The cruel truth is that what
Hungary needs most is food, clothing, and fuel Presumably all parties
agree upon the precedence of this program" which cannot be carried
out without the aid, and the mutual agreement, of Russia and the
Western oWers-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
A SUBSTITUTE FOR STRIKES

We agree with President Truman in at least one respect: We are
tired of strikes. For that matter, we suspect that most Americans in
Guiding labor mioniSs and strikers themselves, are tired of constantly
recurring wars and rumors of war o n the labor front.
Right now the nation is confronted with some pretty serious stua-
tons, for which strikes are at least partially responsible. The fuel stua-
ton is an example. 1t may be that homes will be cold at times and
that some people will sicken and die IS a result-to some extent be
cause of strikes.
So what? Are workers to take without opposition whatever the
boss offers?
Well, no! Not on your life! Our alternative to strikes is something
d bit more positive and constructive than that.
The trouble with strikes, as w re Sc it, is that when workers strike
they ar saying what they WON'T do. They won't drive trucks. They
won't mine coal. They won't operate ships. They won't do any
thing when they go on strike.
Now We have at least two criticisms Of such action. One is that
it's negative and destructive. The other is that it's a cause of incon-
venience to everybody to the strikers themselves and to the general
public.
Well. what's our substitute?
The answer is that instead of saying what they WON'T DO, we'd
have workers deciding what they WILL do.
Furthermore, thered be no "ifslabout it-such as IF the boss
does this Or IF the boss does that"
If workers would do what we want them to do they'd. decide
to produce a abundance of everything.
They'd say:
1--WE WILL produce lots of coal-to keep the people warm"
WE WILL drive rucks-to get the good things of life to the
people"
I'VE WILL operate ships-so that nations can deal with nations
for their mutual welfare"
And the reason the boss wouldn't figure in it would be that the
WOrkerS-Who are the majority of the peope-would BE the boss.
Strikes are the weapon that has been used to settle disputes under
capitalist system. And workers must have a right to strike whenever
they want to or they will lose all of their freedom.
But there's the point. We wouldn't tolerate capitalism.
We think that, instead of striking for what they want. workers
should vote for a economic system that will give them the full social
value of the product of their toll. That's the Socialist way. And, of
course, when workers use their political power to make the means of
life the property of everybody and the products of labor the property
of all who do their share of labor, strikes will disappear, because then
workers would have nobody but themselves to strike misunderstanding
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
Does This Explain Soviet Censorship
Perhaps Russians, Observing How Our Press Treats
American Workers, Feel They Must Curb
Correspondents

American newspapers are making a great fuss over press censor
ship IS enforced by Russia. One might easily imagine W. fought this
war to make the world safe for rowing reporters"
Just why the Soviets are enforcing rigid censorship we don't know.
Perhaps the Russians are familiar with the way American papers treat
workers here at home-the same workers who, according to all authori-
ties, have just made such n important contribution to the winning of
the war.
In the circumstances, our press might be expected to treat the
workers decently. Instead, almost without exception, our papers grossly
exaggerate every incident calculated to reflect on the workers but for
get to emphasize, and IN many cases ignore, favorable facts.
In other words, u newspapers owned, in the main, by multi
mnionaires who are literally Wallowing in wealth, treat American
workers as aTociously as the propaganda agents of any totaliaran
regime.
Of course, they don't wreck union headquarters r beat up labor
leaders in the streets, but heaven knows what they would do if they
had the power!
The Russians are familiar with all that. Perhaps they say: IF Amer
newspapers treat their own people in this abominable fashion, what
will they do to us?" So they clamp down a censorship and nothing
comes through until it has been officially G. KID.
The other day American correspondents in Moscow thought they
say a chance to put the Russians in a hole. They addressed to the
government a protest against censorship, and then they wrote stories
transmitting that protest to their papers in this country.
They publicly confess they did not expect the new to get to this
side of the water. They were sure the censorw would blue-pencil it. The
Russians were too smart. They transmitted the stories Is written, to
the great confusion of the American correspondents.
fight against foreign censorship, it must establish a reputation for hon
est reporting. 1t certainly hasn't that reputation now, and doesn't
deserve it.
1t all bons down to this: We have in this country a free press, but
unfortunately we haven't a fair press.
Naturally, this paper doesn't like censorship of any kind except in
all bet up" over the demand that American correspondents be per-
mlted to send anything they see fit from any part of the world.
We are not at all sure they would use that freedom to enlighten
the American people OF to advance the cause of world peace-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
1916 PROFITS
From Business Week Sept. 1, 1945

From Business Week Sept. l., 1945
Corporate profits stand to be.
surprisingly good in 1916. The
total isn't likely to fall far short
of $4,000, 000,0 600 after federal
taxes and it might quite c~onceiv-
ably top 1944's $4,000, OOO, 900 by
a slight margin.
The higher figure could be reg
istered ven though any ~conserva-
tive forecast must allow for a drop
from 1914 of Is per cent to 80
per cent before taxes.
On this basis "a gross national
product of $3.50, 600, 900, 900 to
$165, 600, 900 ,OOO) total corporate
income taxes should be about $17,-
0OO, 900, down $4,000, 900, 900
from 1914.
Corporate income before taxes
of SIT, 000, 900 900 should a e
something more than 5000, 900, 900
clear if the excess-profits tax re-
mains in full force. If that tax
is repealed, as is very likely, then
1916 income should be l O,OOO,-
OOO, 1000 or even a little bit higher.
Thus we get this picture: Gross
national product down 20 per cent
from 1914; profits before taxes
down 30 per cent; profits after
paying normal and excess-profits
taxes down Is per cent; profits
after taxes, if the excess-profits
tax is repealed, as high as in 1914
or up perhaps as much as 4 per
cent.
Dividends next year almost GER
tainly will be higher if income
after taxes should c ONE up Ito
1944's $40 1000, 0OO, 900 mark.
Wartime dividends have been
low due to the need for conserv-
ing cash to take care of Cd the
unforeseeable, and CD inevitable
r~econversion costs. The average
for all corporations in 1914 was
under so per cent of income.
Wall Street looks for a peace
time average between IS per cent
and rs per cent.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
AUTO MOTIVE

New Cars Will Be Smarter,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS headline.
My car grows more decrepi t
yearly,
Its days of use r over, nearly.
The tread upon each tires dimin-
ished.
The paint grows dull, its finish
finished.
The bumpers show results of
humping,
And where they weren't, there's
been some humping.
The windshield wiper's ceased its
wiping.
Upholstery has lost its piping.
The flashlights off, or flickers
barely,
And windows raise, but rather
rarely.
The fan belts worn and pretty
tattery;
Corrosion's doing for the battery.
A screws gone from the carbure-
tor,
Another's loose, and going later.
There's less, by month and day
and minute,
Of cloth and steel and rubber
in it,
And more of scars of parking
battles
And rips and rust and squeaks and
rattles.
Bring On those new cars-smarter,
stronger.
l can't hold out with mine much
longer!
Richard Armour
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
SOME DAY, SOON

Some day in the not too distant
future, coal will be smokeless, even
the cheaper grades of bituminous.
Research has received tremen-
dous boosts within recent years
and the coal industry itself has re-
cognized that unless some cure is
found, the coal business will de-
cline.
In Ohio on October Is, men in
terested in this and kindred prob
lens will meet to exchange their
ideas, and it is certain that only
good can come from such an ex-
change.
Progress has been made in the
last ten years, but much more is
required before coal becomes an
almost perfect fuel.
Miners are interested in this,
and should be, for the future of
coal industry is dependent on solu-
tions to its vexatious problems
The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21

Since freedom from want is fundamental to the enjoyment of
other freedoms, and since the pressure of hunger is a standing menace
TO peace, it is fitting that the Food and Agriculture Organization GAO
should be the first of the United Nations satellite groups to start opera
lions. Meeting at Quebec at the end Of October, the organization
adopted a charter which has already been signed by more than thirty
nations, elected officers and began discussions of it's monumental task
FAC will collect and distribute information regarding nutrition, food,
and agriculture, provide N request technical assistance to- member
oVernments, and prepare and recommend to the appropriate author
tiles positive measures to improve the production and distribution of
food and other farm products. Naturally there was some controversy
at tn conference about where to begin. Countries with the most ad-
Vanced farming practces-the United States, Canada, Australia, and
Denmark, among others - were particularly concerned about pros
pcctiVe Surpuses and urged the promotion by FAC of international
controls which would stabilize prices. On the other hand, China and
india, whose great problem is to increase productive efficiency and
SC raise the deporably low living standards of their people, proposed
technical assistance. Countries which must import much of their food,
such a S Britain, also appeared uneasy about measures which might
restrict supplies or raise prices against them-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
ALL HITS OCCUPATION
POLICY

Elimination of NaZi power and
influence from the life of the
German people cannot be accom-
plished by an army of occupation
alone, the AFL points out, urging
that the German labor movement
must be encouraged, as German
unionists al take leadership in
rebuilding democracy.
Yet very Often" the AFL
charges in its monthly survey,
"the American Military Govern
ment has refused to authorize
union organization or to heed the
suggestions of union anti-Nazi
committees. The general pol
icy of the American Military Gov
eminent has been to permit union
organization with reluctance, and
all too often to refuse permission
n suppress meetings. This pol
icy has stifled the rebirth of de-
mocracy and prevented the elimi-
nation of Nazis."
The AFL stresses the obvious
fact that German unions should be
actively encouraged and recalls
That the Potsdam Agreement gave
a clear directive that the organiza-
ton of workers in free trade
unions should be permitted.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
SOME ODDS AND ENDS

Whatever the crisis in the
Netherlands Indies and whatever
the outcome of the Indonesian in
dependence movement, what could
be worse in the long run for the
Allies than the stupid use of Jap
troops to police and in combat
against the Indonesians?
How al the Allies face the Indo-
neslans and tell them that they
have been liberated from the Jap
anese only to have Japanese sol
diers under Allied orders fire on
them?-The Milwaukee Journal.
PeSlmlSt: A man who feels bad
Whan he feels good for fear he'll
feel worse when he feels better.
Those stories about starving Po-
land may have been somewhat ex-
aggerated. A Times correspondent
tells us that anybody can buy a
splendid dinner in Warsaw for
$500. - Brubaker in The New
Yorker.
Many times a clear conscience"
gets the credit that really belongs
to a poor memory.
Just what ever became of that
~loquaclous citizen who was SO sure
mat all our labor troubles would
end II we could only get Madame
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
ADDS 1000 YEARS
TO MANS AGE

The United Nations are holding
an Education Conference in Lon
don and learned men and women
from many lands are telling amaz-
ing stories.
An archeologist from Iran re-
ports that 400 miles north of Ur-
look in your Bible and you will
find Abraham was familiar with
that locality - evidence has been
unearthed that civilized men were
doing business in Western Asia
5000 OF 5000 years before the
coming of Christ.
That shoves the frontiers of
civilization back at least 1000
years. Possibly psychologists will
dig up evidence in the near fu-
ture showing man was intelligent
ly active even before that date.
1--WE know that these first citi-
zens were a peaceful community
of farmers, builders and crafts
men," said the spokesman for
Iran, but the m~ilitarists, the diplo-
mats and other "big Shots" seek
ing power, came along and wiped
out the civilization those peaceful
people were gradually developing.
That's the way civilization has
w worked from the beginning.
Peaceful people build and some
poWer-drunk group destroys.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21

If our government wants to
achieve the purpose for which u
boys fought and died." the fedora
ton adds, lit should not only per-
NIT but actively encourage the
organization of German workers
in unions and cooperatives. Bona
fide union anti-Nazi committees
should be fully endorsed by the
occupation authorities so they al
function effectively. Union funds.
which were seized by the Nazi
labor front, should be returned to
the unions. Social insurance funds
should be restored and the social
security laws, effective before the
Naz1 regime, should again be put
into operation"
In ending the discussion of this
particular a of OCCUPATION
policy, the federation survey saws:
"Ihe ALL, the largest and most
representative labor organization
IN this country, should have the
opportunity to send representa-
tlves to Germany, to work under
the Allied Control Council. Thew
could advise and encourage Ger
man workers in democratic union
organization and greatly speed the
work of denazification." The
New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
SIS BILLION DROP
IN ANNUAL FARM
INCOME EXPECTED

WASHINGTON - Farm income
may drop from $40 billion, which
is the estimated figure for 1945,
to around SIS billion in the next
few years, declares J. B. Hutson.
Administrator, Production & Mar
keting Administration.
Hutson said he foresaw no such
disaster as overlook American
farmers after the last war when
farm income fell to SIS billion.
However, he believes full employ
ment measures, extension of social
security legislation, and some form
of a food stamp plan will be
needed to avert a dangerous
slump.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
NOBEL PRIZE PRE-HlROSHlMA

Men Joke about the Nobel Peace Prize, but somehow the Joke never
seems to come off. The annual aWard-with suitable suspensions in
time Of ar-Seems to express an undying human faith that the world
will yet learn to live at peace.
1t IS altogether fitting that the prize this year should 90 to Cordel
Hull Secretary Hull gave the peoples of all lands inspiration and
courage when he negotiated the Moscow Pact, and presided over the
initial discussion that led to the United Nations charter. He svmbolizes
perhaps a well IS any man living, the transition of America from
lsolatonism to responsible world citizenship.
In the year that has elapsed since he retired from the State De-
partment we have learned how rigorous n the duties of that citizen
ship. A bomb at Hiroshima has oudated Mr.. Hurs point of view al
ready. The nation honors him in the knowledge that the he
sought can now be secured only by a much greater modification of IA
tonal sovereignty than he thought necessary or possible. Nav his
successors learn we'll the lessons of this year-The CHICAGO Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21

Perkins out of the Cabinet?-The
Daily Oklahoman.
It's safe to believe in half that
you hear-the trick is in learning
which half.
The movie strike in Cleveland
left Would-be theatergoers in the
dark. Just like the plots of some
of the movies we've seen. - The
Pittsburgh Press.
A chip on the shoulder is really
dandruff from the wood higher up.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
IN The WIND
From THE NATION

EDUCATION: The University of
Minnesota is offering a course in
scientific and technical Russian.
The prospectus says, ''The publ
cation of numerous important
scientific contributions in Russian
makes it essential for scientists in
this country to have at least some
rudimentary reading knowledge of
the Russian language"
GUIDANCE: my point u.s." said
Paul Mallon in a discussion of the
atomic bomb on October 8, 1--WE
should not be guided politically by
scientific advice"
BARGAIN BASEMENT: The
United Ships Corporation, New
York, has Canadian corvettes for
sale. For a minimum of 500, 900
EACH" says an advertisement, Gin
quantities of ten, we offer you
these famous vessels costing orig
inally owe $650,00O each"
FORTISSISMO: Editor and Pub
fishers special supplement on sny-
dictated columns lists Dorothy
Thompson's "On the Record" I'M
der Music.
POPULARIZATION: Hearst's
San Francisco Call-Bulletin of Oc-
tober 6 announced specialization of
Sinclair Lewis's "Cass Timber
lane "in easy-to-read picture
strip form
TEAM! TEAM! TEAM! A chap
ter of the Alumni Association of
Georgetown University has been
established in Tokyo.
SACRIFICE: The Combined Re-
sources and Production Board an
nounced on October 20 that per
capita purchases of civilian goods
and services in the United King
dom fell Is to 20 per cent below
the 1888 level during the war, but
in the United States and Canada
rose 10 to Is per cent.
0. c. S.: Chicago department
stores" said the Wall Street Jour
nal of October Is, don't know
what to do about former sales
men who went into the services
and became captains, majors, and
lieutenant colonies. You can't ex-
pect them to be happy selling
socks or Shirts says one mer-
chant. The stores feel kind of
cheated, too. They say it was their
training that taught the statesmen
how to sell themselves along the
road to uccess in uniform"
EXPLANATION: H. R. Cullen,
chairman of the board of regents
of the University of Huston Texas,
in an address on October 10 said
the trouble with the country lis
a misunderstanding, not between
capital and labor, for we are all
capitalists, for to own a house, a
COW, a farm, a home, is to be in
possession of capital; so the mis-
understanding must be between
the masses of people and corpora
tiOnS."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
RESEARCH TO REDUCE
HEART DISEASE TOLL

Some 400 900 deaths in the
United States annually are traced
to diseases of the heart, more than
from any other cause. In an effort
to reduce the figure, life insurance
companies of this country and
Canada have created a fund of
$4,000, 900 for research to be spent
within the next six years.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
MORE MEAT IN SIGHT

o meat Tor consumers next
year-about Is pounds per person
above what is now available. That
is the prediction of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which fears
that retailers may have trouble in
dlsposing of their allotments be-
cause of sales resistance'-which
IS another way of saying Inability
to buy"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21

Do not be afraid of defeat. It is
defeat that turns bone to flint and
gristle to muscle. and makes men
invincible.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-11-21
LOOK AND

An Ozark ~centenarian died re-
Gently after seeing an automobile
for the first time. He did not see
it soon enough.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-19
Meet q ReQ American

and that it will be a fine business when peace
comes.
He knows that he can get third more
for his ~pulpWood by buying War Bonds.
There are millions of Americans like him.
Quiet. Handwriting. Unassurning.
1t is men like this who make it possible for
their sons and brothers to win this war and
hasten their return home.