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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
THE ATOM

The New York newspaper PM
publishes a chart which it calls
the ''atom" of big business - or
why firms with strikes stick to-
gether. Wish we had it to pub
lish for a chart tells the story
better than words. But here goes:
On the outside of the wheel is:
General MotorS-ASSets over 2
billion; employees, 465,617, plus
275 subsidiary companies.
American Telephone Co.-Assets
over 4 billion; employees, 439, 700;
SO subsidiaries.
Western Union = Assets, 800
million, employees, 60,800, 33 sub
salaries.
General Electric = Assets, 842
million; employees, 1922, 81
subsidiaries.
U. S. Steel-Assets over 2 bill
lion; employees, 314,888, 124 sub
salaries.
"Sotiii5IlouSS = EASSetS OAO I'LL
lion; employees, 111,944, 10 sub
salaries.
In the middle are the 1st Ma
tional Bank of N. Y, Chase Ma
tlonal Bank, the Guaranty Trust
n }. P. Morgan - all with direc-
tors in all these tremendous cor
poratiohs. These big banks and
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13

program for consumer Cooperative
ownership.
Every new coop store, brightly
painted in shades of forest green
and profiteer's pallor, is an ire
futable example of what fair deal
ing can be, the sort of control that
should be earnest to see that ideal
ism and efficiency continue to al
low your coop to serve as a
Golden Slide Rule in the commu-
nity.-The Cooperator, New York.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
SILENT TREATMENT

Vending Machine to Sell News,
papers. Newspaper headline
No more newsboys calling out,
With their eager, strident shout,
Extra! Extra" "Murder!" "Rape!'
Prisoners shoot guards, escaped"
Jury deadlocked" Trains
collide!"
Flood disaster!" "Suicide!"
Unanounced, the headlines come
Out of nowhere, cold and dumb.
Sound}eSs save for coin en- route
IlnklIng down a winding chute,
AND, before the print appears,
Just the faintest clash of gears.
Richard Armour
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
BONDSMEN

Wearing no livery of any lord,
Bearing no brand burnt in the hide,
Bound not to burden of land nor
sword
Free men are we, fair Earth's
fond pride.
Liars or fools are all of us
Who say these things or believe
them so:
We are as bound and powerless
AS men a hundred years ago.
Then Slaves, awake! Now strike
and cry
For freedom. The cause is true, is
right.
The old world sickens. 1t will die.
Workers of the World Arise,
Unite!
C. J. Stevens.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13

The best way to evaluate price
control is to ask where we would
be without it? Fortunately, that
question is answered by past per-
formances in this country and the
fact that every country now that
hasn't price control has drastic in
flatiOn.
Unless one is to assume that
gentler wolves have been bred
since 1918, there is every reason to
believe that a worse catastrophe is
in store for US, for the lambs are
fatter, and not much more intel
ligent than then. See what hap
pened just the other day, when the
price controls e knocked off
citrus fruits and the price of or
anges scared 100 per cent. {
The conservative N. Y. Times
gives us a picture of Venezuela, a
typical country in the grip of in
flation: I'm wartime %parlance, this
would be called a 'fat-cat' land,
where anything from cameras to
Swiss watches is buyable if you
have enough money" But ANY
middleman here who makes less
than $50 net profit >. after i.
taxes is regarded by his colleagues
as stupid"
Venezuela has three million head
of cattle and four million popula-
ton, but a beefsteak in Caracas
costs ,$4.20. Chicken costs $1.80 a
pound (ten times what the farmer
sells it for.) An apple costs 45c,
bread soc a loaf, cigarettes 66c a
pack. A suit of poor material sells
for 800. The majority of people eat
beans, rice and cornmeal if they
eat at all. "In this hill-rimmed
colorful capital, one sees persons
living in a dwelling that would
make a stable appear luxurious. A
handful live in sumptuous palaces"
Due to selfishness, inertia, and
the irksomeness that all controls
entail, we have seen leaks in our
own price wall. There has been a
rise in cost of essential goods
amounting to 49, since Jan. 1941,
which means that your dollar is
now worth 68c in terms of what
it would buy before the war. You
can see baby carriages offered as
bargains at $145, mems shorts at
So formerly 5Oc) and tails cut to
the place where shirts resemble
halters. The price of a loving kiss
Ito judge by the watch ads) has
scared to the place where the COM
mon man must be satisfied with a
handshake.
Life magazine, after a survey OF
exorbitant building costs, suggest
weakly that all the consumer can
do is yell. He can do a lot more, il
he changes from his traditional
role of Milquetoast, with the lily
white hands, to Hardegg, with 3
militant consumer program. That
includes support of OPA as a ne
cesary defense, with an aggressive
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
FOOD FOR FREEDOM

Wars end is hunger. We have seen
this twice
In one short lifetime. When the
battle cries
Have died to Whimpers, one can
hear the signs
Of manned, Of anguished, caught
as in a wise
Of foodless torture, while a daily
slice
Is hacked away from feeble limbs
and thighs
That i'll afford it. How can peace
arise
When bodies famish on scant bowl.
of rice?
From simple hunger, likewise, wars
emerge
In endless cycle, for the 'haves,'
'have-nots,'
Resolve SO, boundlessly, in little
plots
To kill each other under hunger's
urge.
To Danish war, and for eternity,
Use simple measure, give
security.
NHo1no
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
Some Odds and Ends

A house that can be built within
a week has been discovered. Now
to find some way in which discus
sion of whether or not to build it
can be completed in less than six
months.vThe st. Louis Dis
patch
The average distance to a garage
when ar auto stalls is about five
miles.
ooh, the injustice of it, moaned
the old rounder, upon hearing that
all grain hereafter is to go into
luxuries like bread. Senator
Soaper."
In Kentucky there was uncover
ed a still where moonshine-making
was being taught. Graduation like
ly will be held in jail.-The Gin
cinnati Post.
Lots of people have discovered
that when you learn too heavily
On luck it gives way.
Charged with Wrecking a tavern,
an Illinois man says he drank six
quarts of alcoholic stuff to relieve
his rheumatism. 1t sure loosened
up the joint.-H. V. Wade in The
Detroit News
Labor's productivity rose by one
fourth = 25% - during the war,
which means that, in general, four
workers can now produce what it
took five workers to turn out be-
fore the war. This increased pro-
ductivity means also that the en-
ployer makes a higher margin of
profit on each worker and should
therefore be able to afford to pay
him a higher wage.
The filibuster boys from Dixie
have forced the withdrawal of the
F. E. P. G. bill. AS is SO often the
case in the Senate, victory went to
the side with brass lungs.-HoWard
Brubaker in The New Yorker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
n CHILDREN
By MAX PRESS

These are the unsuspecting, the
helpless, the blameless
Who starve and die in the streets
of a thousand towns.
Dream of them a little when you
and your children sleep;
Dream of how cold and hunger
freeze a baby's smile;
Dream of little hands that curl and
uncurl, curl and uncurl
In the hour of exhaustion, in the
agony of death. =.
Dream of them-they do not ques-
ton, do not plead;
Their only language is a cry.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
ISHIN

o, give me grace to catch a fish,
So large that even 1,
In talking about it afterwards,
May never need to lie.
A question 1 would ask you,
And a truthful answer wish,
Are all fishermen liars,
Or do only liars fish?
Since a question has been asked,
And the truth is what you wish
All men are liars,
And some of them fish.
Author Unknown
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
American Industry Is Not Tiled Up"

One part of Chester Bowles' testimony before the House Banking
Committee has not received the attention it deserves. During his argu-
ment for extension of price controls, the new Economic Stabilizer ex-
ploded an idea which is misleading many Americans, both in and out
of Congress. That idea is this:
Because of price ceilings and strikes, production in this country
is practically at a standsill".
Newspapers, of course are the source of that idea, IS they were
of the false notion that there was a strike wave" during the war.
BoWeS pointed out the simple and easily checked-up truth that
"producton is now at the higest level ever achieved in peacetime. IN
employment is at the lowest peaceime point in 20 years. Fifty-two
payrols.
why are retail sales continuing to higher and higher levels? Why
have profits been 81 high during and since the War-if price control
crippled productions"
No n has answered that question yet, but the newspapers still
continue to picture production as tied up by price control and strikes
Sometimes it seems that all a propaganda has to do is start an
idea. Newspaper publishers, reporters and columnist will keep it rolling,
stick to it and harp N it, regardless of the facts-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
RUSS PLAN BOOST
IN FOOD OUTPUT

MOSCOW. = Plans for an in
crease in food production during
the current year were published
today by the newspaper Izvestia.
The Soviet food industry plans
call for a Al per cent increase in
sugar output over that of 1945, a
80 per cent increase in preserves
and a 20 per cent increase in vege-
table oils.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13

trust companies are the real rul-
r of big industry of America.
They are back of the conspiracy
to destroy labor, beat down wa
ges, force initiation to ruin small
business, farmers and salaried
people.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
APPALLING!

An appalling report has just been
issued by the l. c. G.
1t shows that last year 1913 rail
road workers we're killed and A.
261 were injured in the perform
ance of their duties.
There is, however, a ray of hope
in the report. The casualties de
creased, compared with 1914.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13

The highest function of the
teacher consists not so much in
imparting knowledge as in stimu-
lating the pupil in its love and
pursuit.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
THE IDLE RICH

The facts show that the Steel
Trust if it did not operate a day
this year of 1916, would regain
$149 million in tax rebates, an
amount 29% above the level of
the industry's prewar earnings.
Workers go hungry when they
don't work.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
CAUSE Fol PAUSE

How do you cure your husband
from staying late at the club?"
when he came in late one night.
| called out, is that you, Jim?' and
my husbands name is Frank"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13

Sign on a car with Kansas license
plates: please drive carefully. We
have lived through drought, dust
storms, prohibition and the New
Deal, and we want to see what hap
pens next"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
Ia Billion Dollars of u. S.
Assets Are Owned Abroad;
Britain Leeds

Assets" owned in the United
States by foreign nations and indi-
viduals totalled the huge sum of
$13, 000, 00O, 900 on June IA, 1941.
and increased during the war to
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-13
HEARD AT THE A

AT least" said the c~restfallen
jockey, Il didn't finish last. l no
ticed two horses behind me-"
why man." replied the irate
owner, "those horses were running
in the next race"
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Tires Are Still Rationed
By Some Dealers Here

Some Washington tire dealers are
continuing to ration tires to motor
lists, despite the official end of ra-
tioning two days ago, it was learned
today.
Nearly all dealers have been flood
ed with requests for new tires in
the past few days, with the demand
far exceeding supply.
Estimates of when there will be
tires for every one vary-anywhere
from six months to year. All
dealers agree, however, that the end
OF rationing has not changed the
supply situation. here. -
Some dealers are making up wait
ing lists and promise to notify
prospective customers when their
turn comes. ..., 49,.
Others are only filling back Or
ders Of applicants who had Official
OPA certificates. Later, the general
public will have a chance, they say.
One dealer said he was not max
ing up waiting list, but if he did
lit would be a mile long"
Another dealer said a customers
tires had to be threadbare before
he would sell as many as four tires.
So far dealers have received no
increased ALLEGATIONS of tires from
wholesalers or manufacturers.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Wilbur Land Files Suit
For Divorce in Florida

The marital difficulties of Wilbur
E. Land and his wife, dramatized
when Mrs. Land few to Florida to
take their 19-month-old son from
her husband have reached the d.
vorce courts of Jacksonville, Fla,
her attorney reported today.
Jack Politz, attorney for Mrs.
Juanita Land, 1900 block Eighteenth
street NV, announced that Mr..
Land, Reconstruction Finance Corp
official, charged cruelty in a suit for
absolute divorce at Jacksonville.
He has offered to give his wife
custody of the child provided she
agrees to the divorce and accepts
s100 a month for maintenance and
support of herself and the child,
Wilbur E. Land, jr., Mr.. Polite said
Justice Henry A. Schweinhaut OF
District Court awarded Mrs. Land
$50 a month temporary mainte-
nance on November 80. Mrs. Land
has not decided whether to accept
the offer, her attorney pointing out
that there is a motion pending be-
fore the court here to Judge Mr.
Land in contempt for leaving this
jurisdiction with the child.
Mr.. PolitZ contends that the main
tenance order constituted "con.
structiye award of CUSTODY
Evening star., 1946-01-03
.TWA Cuts Work Hours
Without Reducing Poy

Establishment Of a 40-hour week
for most employees of the Transcon-
tinental g. Western Air, Inc, with
no reduction in take-home pay, was
announced yesterday by Paul E.
Richter. executive vice president of
the airline.
The new schedule for the shorter
work week covers Office personnel,
reservationists and ticketing en-
ployes, cargo agents, stores personnel
and ground station radio operators
1T probably will be extended to
TWAS mechanics at conclusion OF
union negotiation and after the
granting of wage stabilization ap-
prevails, it was said.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Rear Admiral Michel Dies;
Coast Guard Medical Chief

Rear Admiral Carl Michel, IS,
chief medical officer of the Coast
Guard and nationally known as a
pioneer in preventive medicine, died
today of cerebral hemorrhage at
Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Admiral Michel, who lived at the
westchester Apartments, Thirty
ninth street and Cathedral avenue
: NV, also was assistant surgeon
general of the United States Public
Health Service, to which he devoted
{ his career.
) He served as chief medical officer
.of the Coast Guard Academy, New
sLondon, Conn, for five years before
7 coming to Washington as chief med
sical officer of the Coast Guard in
July, 1910.
AS a public health officer he was
sthe first to discover that planes can
scarry disease-bearing mosquitoes
and made plans for national sys-
item of airplane quarantine sta
stions.
DR.. Michel was born in Chicago
MAY 4, 1890, and graduated from the
university of Illinois in 1912. He is
survived by his widow. the former
sMary Eloise Field: a daughter, Mrs
y. j. McClelland, and two sons, Mai
@John Michel, u. S.. A.. and Carl
SMichei. jr.. who recently was dis
charged from the Coast Guard and
now Is law student at the Uni
versity Of Virginia.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
CogsweN Withdraws
Rent Rise on ; Homes
Sought by 100 Sunday

District Rent Control Admins
traitor Robert Cogswell has with
drawn an order allowing rental
boosts on three dwellings in the
140O block of Seventeenth street
NV. by almost $50 each and has
set rehearing on the case for 8
am. Monday. The three houses
were sought by 100 persons Sunday
after they were advertised for rent
After studying records of the
hearings last month. which author
lied the rent increases, Mr.. Cogs-
well withdrew the order and ordered
a thorough investigation pending
the rehearing -
Mr.. Cogswell said the increases
were authorized with the under
standing that repairs necessary to
place the premises in excellent
condition" would be made. He said
rent control authorities had been
given the impression that extensive
repairs would be made, but that no
repairs had been made or started by
Sunday, when the buildings re-
portedly were rented.
In reply Leon Lamb of 927 Fiji
teenth street NV. owner of the
buildings, said that he had engaged
men to do repair work, although
work on the premises has not yet
started. Furthermore, Mr.. Lamb
said he will not proceed with any
repairs until the rental boosts are
Strengthened out at Mondays hear
ings.
Rentals on the two brick houses
at 1408 and l410 Seventeenth street
NV, which amounted to $40.50 each
on January, 1941, were increased to
$40; a $50 rental was approved for
the frame building at 1414 Seven
teenth street NV, which rented
for $30.50 in l941.
Under the District Rent Control
Act, rents are frozen at the Janu-
airy l, 1941, level but owners may be
given permission to increase rentals
If improvements to the property
justify them.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Fifth Amphibious Corps
To Return From Japan
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the Aseociated Press.
KYOTO, Kyushu, Jan. 3.-The 5th
Amphibious Corps. whose Marine
and Army troops fought from Tar
ava to Two Jima, is going home.
Sixth Army headquarters an
nounced today that the corps has
been relieved of occupation COM
mand on Kyushu and Southern
Honshu.
officers and men of the organi-
zation are embarking for Camp
Pendleton, Calf, where it will be
disbanded. Marine Maj. Gen. Harry
Schmidt, San Diego, Calf, relin-
pushed control of his zone to Maj.
Gen. r. B. Woodruff of the 1st Army
Corps.
The 5th Marine Division, which.
with the I'd Marine Division and the
32d Infantry Division, made up the
SO, ,000-strong occupation force un-
der the 5th Corps, already has re-
turned to the United States.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Man Charged With Offering
Bribes 10 Three Jockeys
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Jan.
3.-John Sullivan of Philadelphia
and Miami Beach was free under
$4,000 bond today after arraign-
ment before Broward County Judge
Boyd H. Anderson yesterday on
charges of attempting to bribe three
Gulfstream Park jockeys.
Sheriff Walter r. Clark said bond
of $4,000 was set on each Of two
counts charging that Sullivan at
tempted to bribe the jockeys to fix
horse races. No date has been set
for hearing.
Sullivan was arrested after the
jockeys presented affidavits to track
stewards.
Sheriff Clark said no bribes had
been accepted.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Mystery Shrouds Trip
OF ChennauIt 10 China
By the Associated Press,

6s tne Associated Press.
HONOLULU. Jan. 3.-Maj. Gen
Claire L. Chennault, famed leader
of the American Flying Tigers" in
the early days of the Chinese war
left Hickam Field for the Orient as
a paying passenger early today.
In his brief midnight stop, the
retired officer told newsmen he was
returning to China ''as a private
citizen" Air Transport Command
officers at Hamilton Field, Calf.
had explained he was "on a secret
mission" He was wearing the uni
form of the Army Air Forces. He
retired last october as commander
Of the 14th Air Force.
He said he was going ito see what
conditions now are" in China
Asked whether Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek had invited him, he said
I'm sorry, I can't answer that"
He insisted he was not going to
command combat unit in China
for any one, and that he did not
consider the present situation there
as real war.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
More Data Demanded
by Capeharf on Big ;
Moscow Agreements
BY the Associated Press.


Senator Capehart, Republican. Of
Indiana, yesterday called for more
information about the Big Three
agreements at Moscow, saying they
had not been clearly presented to
the public
Senator Capehart also told re-
porters 1t is obvious that Gen. Mac
Arthur does not like the Moscow
conferences provision for Allied
control, of Japan and said he had
asked Secretary of War Patterson
for further information on Gen.
Macarthur objections.
He said that If the Moscow agree
ments "are pointless conversations"
not binding on any one lets learn
the truth, so We can apply it to our
information thinking
If they are binding contracts
which may at sometime require the
approval of the Senate he added,
"let's get the background now. while
it's fresh in the minds of those
who helped to make them"
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Lake Search Renewed
For Mystery Air Crosh
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 8. Renewed
search was under way at dawn today
for small mystery" plane reported
to have crashed last night on an ice
foe in Lake st. Clair.
Coast guardsmen aboard the cut
ter Acacia, unsuccessful in their at
tempts to locate the craft yesterday
were back at the scene of the crash
about half mile of shore near the
Crosse Point Yacht Club.
A check of all airports in Lower
Michigan, Ontario and Cleveland
failed to reveal any clue as to the
planes origin or the identity of it.
occupants.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
S Fall BRINGS
Plans 10 Safeguard
Park System Hazards

Danger spots in the park system,
such as the 45-foot cliff over which
two children tumbled New Year
Day, win be checked and made less
hazardous wherever possible, Irving
G. Root, superintendent of National
Capital Parks, said today.
Maintenance workers already have
started erecting a 4-foot barrier
along the cliff in Rock Creek Park
where Joan and Roland Riddell
children Of 1t. Col and Mrs. Richard
J. Riddell, 1852 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV, fell and seriously injured
themselves.
Mr.. Root said two cables attached
to iron posts would reach about loo
feet along the cliffs edge south OF
Rock Greek near the Massachusetts
Avenue Bridge.
More Dangerous Spots.
1T is our purpose to remedy haz-
ardous conditions as they are
brought to our attention" Mr.. Root
said, although it obviously would
be impossible to correct all such
places. There are many spots more
dangerous than that where the
Riddell children fell, since they had
wandered away from the main path
Physicians at Georgetown Hospital
reported both Joan, 9, and Roland, 8,
were out Of the critical" stage and
that prospects were good for their
recovery. Both were conscious this
morning and we're awaiting setting
Of fractures.
The girl suffered a fracture of the
left thigh and the boy has a frac-
tured jaw as we'll as an injury to
three vertebrae.
Plan Warning Signs.
Mr.. Root said warning signs also
would be placed at the scene of the
fall. Although the main path was
plainly marked and bordered or
either side by shrubbery and trees
there were side-paths leading near
the ledge which would be protected
by the barrier, he said.
An accurate account of how tn,
Riddell children fell into the aban
doned quarry still had not been OBJ
tanned, but the boy revived sum
ciently to tell his parents he wa
running when he stumbled and fel
over the cliff. 1t was assumed tn,
girl, in her anxiety to help he
brother, fell after him.
The children were found abou
$3.50 o'clock Tuesday night after
three-hour search. They left thei
home In the afternoon to play il
Montrose Park and when they
failed to return, a searching party
was organized.
Evening star., 1946-01-03
Hartman, in Bucharest
Sees Party Leaders

BUCHAREST, Jan. 3 tP,-W. Aver
ell Hartman, Americal Ambassador
to Russia and member of the three
power commission delegated to seek
a broadening of the Romanian gov
ernment, yesterday said he had con-
ferred with Peasant and Liberal
party leaders.
Mr.. Hartman was not accom-
panied to the talks by the other
members of the commission, British
Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark
Kerr and Russian Vice Commissar
for Foreign Affairs Andrei Wy
shinski.