Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-10
Some Odds and Ends

The f federal Communications
Commission is revising the terms
for the renewal Of licenses for ra-
dio stations SO that advertising ex-
cesses" will be curbed. | hope that
they will out law singing ads, the
greatest atrocity of modern radio.
IN. L.
A new light rivaling the bril-
lance of the sun has been produced
by Western Union engineers. APP
%propriate to these times, it is
known as "regimented light" But
even with such a light, a modern
DiOgeneS would be frustrated in his
Premier Sjahrir of Indonesia
protested the arrival of 2,400 Dutch
troops to take over the duties the
British are anxious to relinquish.
But negotiations with the Dutch
for self-government continue, thus
far without results.-N. l..
Canada granted Britain a loan of
1880, coo, 900, on the same terms
as the proposed loan of nearly $4,-
I 600, 000, 900 by the USA, and can
celled a debt of 1925, 600, 900, the
cost of training British pilots in
Canada during the war. But India
has not granted any credits to
Britain.-N. L.
Four countries produced seven
Fights of the worlds oil: United
States 231, OOO, 900 tons; Venezuela,
AZ, 600, 900; USSR $4,000, 900; Iran,
1000, 000.-N. l..
There is just as much horse sense
as ever, but some days we think
the horses have it all.-The Pitts
burgh Press.
A Federal man says not a single
first = class cOunterfeiter is now
operating. Thus does one more of
the traditional aspects of free en-
terprise disappear from the Amer
lean scene.-"Senator Soaper" in
The Cincinnati Times-Star.
The home-front letdoWn in the
wake Of war brings back to mind
the weary parader who explained,
Il eve noticed my feet hurt until
the band stopped playing."-H. V.
Wade in The Detroit News.
The output of hot air in Congress
during a filibuster is about the
same as usual, the, main difference
being that it is premeditated.-The
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Even the judge at hearings on
Western Unions demand for an in
junction against picketing Of its
main building laughed at this boner
pulled by a company lawyer ross
examining q Strikebreaker: WAS
it a man or Woman who hit you.
Answer Yes or MOI"
Time is money only when you
spend yours earning it.-(From the
Brewery Worker.)
Everybody is eager for an early
end Of the dangerous strain on
our relations with Russia. IN
fortunately, we are getting little
help from Washington, less from
Winston Churchill, and none at all
from ACKNOWLEDGMENT Brubaker
in The New Yorker.
Don't have a ~single-track mind
at railway grade crossings. A train
may be coming on the second
track, too.
Lifting of OPA rent controls in
Sarasota, Fla, this Winter brought
rent increases of more than 100
per cent. The controls were lifted
because the housing shortage there
was not due to either war or re-
conversion activities. Soon ap-
peals flooded the OPA from ten
ants unable to pay the sharp rent
increases and facing eviction.
Apartment rents were upped from
$35 to $50, from $40 to 500. It's
a preview of what would happen
everywhere if Congress killed
price and rent control.
Learn from the mistakes of
others-you can't live long enough
to make them all yourself.
The poll-tax Democrats and re-
dictionary r epublican. MS in the